Canada

Carney crawls to Trump

Canadian PM quickly pledges to negotiate ‘new economic and security relationship’ with US after Trump pauses tariffs on other nations

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney pledged Wednesday to negotiate a “new economic and security relationship” with the US – an announcement that comes on the same day President Trump paused tariffs for dozens of nations, but not Canada.

“The pause on reciprocal tariffs announced by President Trump is a welcome reprieve for the global economy,” Carney wrote on X, referring to the commander in chief’s 90-day pause on sweeping trade fees.

h/t PA Cat

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

BARBER: Canada leading in what, exactly?

Let’s face it, Canada’s not going to win a trade war with the US. Time to make a deal with Trump.’

Various news outlets have reported that Prime Minister Carney was thumping his chest, claiming that Canada is willing to lead if the US is not. This raises two questions.

First, lead based on what?

Second, lead in what?

Of the G7, Canada is ranked dead last in economic standing ― a ranking it has long held.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Married Iraqi Uber driver who assaulted Ontario passenger wanted lighter sentence to stay in Canada

An Ontario judge has sentenced an Iraqi Uber driver to ten months in jail for sexually assaulting his passenger who was just looking for a ride home from a party.

The Ontario Court of Justice heard a woman engaged Sevan Halabi’s services as an Uber driver on Oct. 9, 2022. Halabi, who is a permanent resident of Canada, was angling for a lighter sentence to avoid deportation.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

The Great Tariff Pause

Stock market goes STRATOSPHERIC as Trump makes shock tariff U-turn… but China still faces onslaught

President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he will delay tariffs for 90 days for countries that did not launch a reciprocal tariff against the US.

He also increased tariffs on Chinese imports to 125 percent, citing China’s ‘lack of respect for global markets.

Trump attributed his decision to pause the tariffs to the fact that ‘more than 75 countries’ have reached out to the White House to negotiate solutions to the trade issues he raised with the new duties.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Liberation Day", Canada, USA

Of course China wants Carney for PM

The only thing surprising about Beijing’s dictators wanting Liberal leader Mark Carney to win the April 28 election is that anyone would be surprised by it.

As Conservative MP Michael Chong — an actual “target” of Chinese disinformation — put it in the wake of Canadian security and intelligence officials revealing China’s attempt to promote the prime minister’s campaign on Chinese-language social media: “(China) knows that for a decade the Liberals have turned a blind eye to Beijing’s interference in Canada’s democracy.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Election 2025

Trump’s top tariffs for ‘worst offenders’ take effect

US President Donald Trump’s latest wave of tariffs has come into force, with imports from China hit by a 104% rate amid an escalating standoff between the world’s two biggest economies.

Tariffs ranging from 11% to 104% now apply to imports from around 60 US trade partners, which Trump has dubbed the “worst offenders” for what he considers unfair trade practices.

China has since hit back by raising import duties on US goods arriving in China to 84%.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Election 2025, USA

Rise in asylum seekers to Canada as migrants’ protected status set to expire in U.S.

MONTREAL — Canadian border officials say there has been a steady rise in the number of people seeking asylum at a border crossing south of Montreal.

The rise in would-be refugees at the St-Bernard-de-Lacolle crossing comes as the temporary status of hundreds of thousands of migrants in the United States is set to expire over the next weeks and months.

Data from Canada Border Services Agency shows the number of asylum claims at the St-Bernard-de-Lacolle point of entry has increased since the start of the year, with 1,356 applications in March and 557 claims as of Saturday for April.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

‘Shawn Fain is wrong’: Canadian Labour Congress blasts UAW leader on tariffs

The head of Canada’s largest labour organization on Monday was blunt in her assessment of a powerful union leader south of the border over his support of U.S. President Donald Trump’s auto tariffs.

Bea Bruske, president of the Canadian Labour Congress, said United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain is “100 per cent” wrong in his support of Trump’s 25 per cent levies on auto imports.

Trump is delivering what he promised and yes it is a shame good people will be hurt. Compare that with Carney who will ensure Canada’s energy sector is destroyed.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

‘Quebec doesn’t have the capacity’: Bloc urges Ottawa to send some refugee claimants to other provinces

Amid rising numbers of asylum seekers in Quebec from the U.S., Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet is urging the federal government to speed up processing and distribute arrivals more evenly across the country.

“We need to act. We need to move much more quickly,” Blanchet said at a campaign stop in Ottawa on Tuesday.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada

EYRE: Pablum for the people, why the media is Poilievre’s greatest threat

If you want to catch Pierre Poilievre in any detail, you have to do it early — in his morning media scrums on 24-hour news channels — before the ‘cycle’ takes over, and his points and his audience have been clipped, cropped, and culled.

For years, pundits have paraphrased his words, scarcely showing him actually speak (even while occasionally praising his political prowess.) To get around the media, Poilievre has had to post videos on social. Now, he’s accused of avoiding the media and not properly getting his message out (et tu, Kory Teneycke?)

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Government Owned News Media, Conservative Party, Election 2025

Conrad Black: Trump’s Tariff Policy Is in Part a Containment Strategy to Deal With the China Threat

Evaluating President Trump’s tariff policy involves examining it from two different perspectives: completing the shift from post-Cold War containment of the Soviet Union to addressing the next challenge, from China, and the assurance that Trump is sincere in his desire to negotiate new fair-trading arrangements to effectively eliminate America’s anachronistic trade deficit.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Liberation Day", Canada, USA

Trump-led U.S. an ‘unreliable partner’ for Canada, says expert group: ‘we’re dealing with an administration that doesn’t believe our country has a right to exist’

Former federal Progressive Conservative cabinet minister Perrin Beatty says he had planned to spend Easter with his wife, Julie, at the condominium they have owned for about 12 years in Naples, Florida. But he decided to return last week to Ottawa after United States President Donald Trump announced his “Liberation Day” reciprocal tariffs on April 2.

“We’re dealing with an administration that doesn’t believe that our country has a right to exist,” said Beatty before departing his winter home in a country whose president has repeatedly pushed the idea of annexing Canada as its 51st state.

The Hill Times is uber left and uber bought.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

The Toronto Star says Jews are just like Trump and hating them is what makes us Canadian

Why Gaza matters to every Canadian in the federal election

As Canadians head into the federal election, much has been made of the key issues shaping the campaign: affordability, national security, trade and foreign relations. But one issue cuts across all of these — Gaza.

At first glance, many Canadians may see Gaza as a foreign issue, far removed from their daily lives. But it isn’t. The principles at stake in Gaza — respect for international law, human rights and the rules-based order — are the same principles that protect Canada in trade, security, and foreign policy.

Canada exists and thrives in a world where international law is respected. Our trade relationships, national security and economic stability depend on a rules-based order where smaller countries are not pushed aside by the whims of the powerful.

This is precisely why U.S. President Donald Trump is seen as a threat to Canada. His disregard for trade agreements, alliances and global norms puts Canadian industries, jobs and sovereignty at risk. The same logic applies to Gaza. If we allow powerful nations to violate international law with impunity, we weaken the very system that protects Canada’s interests.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West