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Kelly McParland: Bowing to Trump would betray Canada

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s post-midnight response to Washington’s latest escalation of its tariff war was calm, measured, sensible and appropriate, everything the current regime in Washington is not.

Canada, Carney said, will continue to negotiate in search of a reasonable agreement, notwithstanding the absence of any indication the U.S. is open to reasonable negotiations. What Washington wants is to continue operating what amounts to a global extortion racket, threatening all America’s best customers with dire consequences if they refuse to bow to its demands and offer up supplication to whatever notion occurs to President Donald Trump at any given moment.

Is supporting Carney any better? I doubt it.

by Blazingcatfur•August 4, 2025August 4, 2025•0•Canada, USA

Sheryl Saperia: Supporting Palestinian statehood means endorsing violence

Former U.S. vice-president Hubert Humphrey once observed that “foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.” This deceptively simple phrase captures a profound truth: a country’s stance on international affairs is almost never just about abstract ideals or global ethics. It reflects, and often redirects, domestic pressures, political calculations and the ideological currents coursing through national life. Canada’s proposed recognition of Palestinian statehood is a prime example — a foreign policy move with far-reaching consequences for our national and international security.

Carney is cool with that.

by Blazingcatfur•August 4, 2025August 4, 2025•0•"Oct 7 2023", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

‘This is bad news’: Former foreign minister warns on U.S.-Canada trade tensions

Canada is bracing for further tension in its trade relationship with the United States, after President Donald Trump imposed sweeping new tariffs.

“This is bad news,” said former foreign affairs minister Peter MacKay in an interview with CTV News Channel Sunday.

“It’s bad news for the markets. It’s bad news for many sectors on both sides of the border. … There is a lot of impetus now to try to bring this to an end.”

Crap like this will not win Carney many friends, not here not in the USA ask Justin.

Prime Minister Mark Carney attends Vancouver Pride parade

by Blazingcatfur•August 4, 2025August 4, 2025•0•Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, USA

The two ways Trump’s tariffs on Canada could collapse — despite his fight to keep them

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Time’s up. On Friday, U.S. President Donald Trump raised the tariff rate on Canadian goods not covered under the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) from 25 to 35 per cent, saying they “have to pay a fair rate.” The White House claims it’s because of Canada’s failure to curb the “ongoing flood of fentanyl and other illicit drugs.” U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data, however, show that fentanyl seizures from Canada make up less than 0.1 per cent of total U.S. seizures of the drug; most smuggling comes across the Mexican border.

by Blazingcatfur•August 4, 2025August 3, 2025•0•Canada, USA

GUNTER: Trudeau cost Canada a chance to get into global LNG game — Trump and U.S. are reaping the benefit

Last Sunday, at President Donald Trump’s golf resort in Scotland (a.k.a. King Donald’s summer palace), Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Union pledged European countries would buy US$750 billion (over $1 trillion Canadian) of U.S. energy – largely LNG – over the next three years in return for Trump promising to impose only 15% tariffs on the union’s member states.

by Blazingcatfur•August 4, 2025August 3, 2025•0•"Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Mexico leads in Canadian traveler deaths and violent crime reports abroad

Mexico recorded more sudden deaths and violent crimes involving Canadian travelers than any other country last year, according to a federal report, despite drawing far fewer visitors than the United States.

Blacklock’s Reporter says the Department of Foreign Affairs’ Annual Consular Data Report found that 204 Canadians died suddenly while in Mexico in 2024, the highest number of any foreign destination.

by Blazingcatfur•August 4, 2025August 3, 2025•0•Canada, Mexico

Canada Renews Funding for China Student Exchange Program That Requires Allegiance to Communist Regime

Canada has renewed funding for a bilateral scholarship program that requires Chinese candidates applying to study in Canada to show allegiance to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and uphold the party’s “socialist system.”

David Morrison, deputy minister of foreign affairs at Global Affairs Canada, on July 30 signed an agreement with his Chinese counterpart, executive vice minister Ma Zhaoxu, to renew the Canada-China Scholars’ Exchange Program. Through the program, Ottawa funds Chinese applicants to conduct research at Canadian universities as visiting scholars for 4–12 months.

by Blazingcatfur•August 4, 2025August 3, 2025•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

The wrong plan, the wrong reasons

Canada’s decision to recognize a Palestinian state will likely change little in the world, as our country has refused to play a constructive role in the region for many years, but it confirms for Canadian Jews that their government is not really for them.

Since the October 7 attack on Israel, Canada has witnessed an explosion of hate targeting the Jewish community. Jews in Canada have had their businesses targeted, synagogues and schools have been shot at and firebombed, neighbourhoods have been harassed and Ottawa’s National Holocaust Monument has been defaced.

It was a clear message to the Muslim World that Carney is on Team Muhammad.

by Blazingcatfur•August 4, 2025August 3, 2025•0•"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

McTEAGUE: The dollar is down — and so are your wages

As president of Canadians for Affordable Energy, I’ve had the privilege of calling the public’s attention to ongoing energy-related public policy issues which drive up the cost of living in this country. In that same vein, I’d like to call your attention to another matter which is making our lives more expensive. It is, functionally, a significant tax on all economic activity, but one which no political party ran on and none of our representatives in parliament voted for.

I’m speaking of the weakness of the Canadian dollar.

by Blazingcatfur•August 3, 2025August 3, 2025•0•"Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada

Donald Trump’s next target could be deal that shields most Canadian imports from tariffs, experts warn

Canada’s biggest shield against U.S. tariffs is still intact after Donald Trump’s latest trade deadline, but that could change by next year, experts warn, as Prime Minister Mark Carney prepares for a new round of talks with the mercurial American president.

While Trump raised the tariff on Canadian goods to 35 per cent in an executive order Thursday night, an exemption for goods which comply with the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) was maintained. The order was signed after Ottawa and Washington failed to reach an economic and security deal.

by Blazingcatfur•August 3, 2025August 2, 2025•0•Canada, USA

Canada Post is a case study in Canadian dysfunctionality

Canada Post, which predates Confederation, is a vital national institution, playing a particularly important role in serving rural, Northern and Indigenous communities across our vast country.

But today, Canada Post is effectively insolvent. Indeed, it would have run out of cash had the government not recently extended a billion-dollar lifeline.

This situation is no surprise, and it has been developing for a long time. Canada Post has been impeded from adapting to modern business realities because of long-standing labour inflexibility as well as oscillation by prior governments between political indifference and political interference.

by Blazingcatfur•August 3, 2025August 2, 2025•0•Canada

Why more fentanyl production could be moving to Canada

Fentanyl Precursor Chemical 4-Piperidone

Although there’s no evidence of any significant flows of fentanyl into the United States from Canada, an American authority on “criminal supply chains” warned Friday that that could change abruptly if U.S. efforts to better seal its border with Mexico are successful.

Jonathan Caulkins, who researches supply chains that support illegal markets for the Manhattan Institute think tank and Carnegie Mellon University. said the drug cartels that control the North American fentanyl trade may well shift large chunks of their operations to Canada if the northern border becomes the path of least resistance.

by Blazingcatfur•August 3, 2025August 2, 2025•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Mexican drug cartels, Mexico, USA

Terry Glavin: Is Trump’s lionization of James Polk an ominous sign of things to come?

Shortly after his January inauguration, U.S. President Donald Trump made the peculiar decision to remove a portrait of the great Thomas Jefferson from the Oval Office and replace it with a portrait of James Polk.

Jefferson was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence and the third American president. Polk, the eleventh president, launched the Mexican-American War and expanded the reach of American sovereignty from what is now Texas to Washington State, and from Wyoming to California.

by Blazingcatfur•August 3, 2025August 2, 2025•0•Canada, USA

Open Disdain for Jews and Israel Is the Status Quo in Carney’s Liberal Party

Carney speaks at a Muslim Brotherhood function

On July 30th 2025, Canada’s Prime Minister, Mark Carney, declared that “the peaceful co-existence of Israeli and Palestinian states [is] the only roadmap for a secure and prosperous future” and confirmed that “Canada will recognize a Palestinian state” at the upcoming UN General Assembly in September.

Unfortunately, despite the fact that his decision is unequivocally appalling to any defenders of democracy, human rights, and The Good, Carney’s recent comments are not at all surprising or even unexpected.

by Blazingcatfur•August 2, 2025August 2, 2025•0•"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Is the tradition of giving party leaders a free pass to the House dead?

Political parties won’t be giving Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre a free ride back into the House of Commons — seemingly ignoring a parliamentary tradition that dates back decades.

But the convention of political parties standing aside to allow seatless party leaders an easy path to the House — known as “leadership courtesy” — hasn’t been consistently applied.

Former Alberta MP Damien Kurek vacated his seat in Battle River-Crowfoot to give Poilievre a chance to rejoin the House of Commons after the Conservative leader lost his longtime Carleton riding in April’s general election.

by Blazingcatfur•August 2, 2025August 2, 2025•0•Canada