Canada

There’s long been an assumption, for about a century anyway, that as a nice neighbour, ally and friend, Canada has had a special relationship with the United States.

You can go through the speeches of almost every American president and find testimony to that. We’ve had lots of quarrels but we’ve remained America’s closest companion. The two countries, as Pierre Trudeau once put it, set the standard for enlightened international relations.

Not now.

Canada’s public safety minister just said less than 1% of ’s fentanyl is from , and ditto for illegal immigrants.

Here’s why that’s a whopper of a lie. Warning: Your opinion of Canada will irreversibly change.

h/t XC

Trudeau, Carney, Freeland, and Karina Gould, based on their past actions and statements, are all globalists. They are the promoters of multinational trade agreements called “Free Trade” but actually–managed trade, wherein a small elite group makes massive profits from knowing the right people, having insider information, and influence markets to their advantage at the cost of the middle class.

If you have been keeping up with the news cycle, Justin Trudeau and Team Canada, Mark Carney, and Chrystia Freeland are all in agreement on a dollar-for-dollar retaliation if President Donald Trump imposes tariffs on Canadian goods in February.

Canada’s GDP for 2023 was $2.3 trillion USD, around 70+% of our trade goes to the USA, and the US GDP was about $26 trillion. Signaling to Trump “You’re not so big; we have tariffs too” is not diplomacy but idiocy. Some in the Liberal Party should have sufficient intelligence to know that.

Canadian officials hope diplomacy can stave off the tariffs, while also planning retaliation.

TORONTO — Roughly $900 billion in annual trade between Canada and the United States — and with it, traditionally chummy bilateral ties — is on the brink of upheaval, with President Donald Trump threatening to impose sweeping tariffs on Canada as early as this weekend.

Canadian Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly said Wednesday she is “cautiously optimistic” that a year-long diplomatic effort to stave off the levies could still yield results. But the U.S. president is “the ultimate decision-maker,” she added, and can be unpredictable.

The fallout for Canada could be profound. Here’s what to know.

An unguarded, black chain-link fence erected in B.C. along the U.S.-Canada border is now the subject of an international investigation and could be in violation of a more than 200-year-old treaty, according to one immigration lawyer.

The fence, roughly 30 metres long, was put up at the end of English Bluff Road in Tsawwassen, a community within the Metro Vancouver suburb of Delta, B.C., on Jan. 16. That side of the border adjoins a park in the Washington state community of Point Roberts.

The International Boundary Commission, a bi-national organization responsible for regulating construction close to the Canada-U.S. border, confirmed to CBC News Wednesday that it did not authorize the fence and is now investigating the matter.

Someone you know used to smuggle cigarettes and tobacco here in another life.

From the moment Donald Trump lowered the boom on Canada after he won the U.S. presidential election, Canada has stood alone.

Weeks after his victory, he announced that goods from both Canada and Mexico would be subject to 25-per-cent tariffs, which he framed as punishment for allowing drugs and people to flow across the northern and southern U.S. borders. It was a spurious claim in Canada’s case (at least in terms of a problem flowing north to south at the border), but Canada’s fact-check fell on deaf ears. It was a lonely protest.

My bet is they hate Trudeau and won’t lend a hand.

The looming tariffs against Canadian and Mexican exports to the United States are not just another round of trade skirmishes. They may well signify the beginning of the end for Bretton Woods-era multilateralism, the rules-based global trade order that has underpinned international commerce since 1944.

Days before tariffs that have the potential to cripple Canada’s economy are expected to come into effect, Canadian politicians are pushing the message that the country is cracking down on one of U.S. President Donald Trump’s main concerns.

Since his re-election in November, Trump has repeatedly said he would hit Canada and others with tariffs of up to 25 per cent. On his first day back in the Oval Office, Trump suggested tariffs on Canadian goods could be coming on Saturday.

While he’s shifted back and forth on his irritants, one concern Trump has cited is drugs — such as fentanyl — entering the U.S. from Canada and Mexico.