‘Forced labour’ rationale for Trump tariffs met with bewilderment

‘Forced labour’ rationale for Trump tariffs met with bewilderment

Donald Trump has once again inspired anger and confusion in US allies and trading partners as he imposed a wave of tariffs on more than 80 countries, replacing an expiring global duty introduced earlier this year.

The new measures effectively replace blanket 10% tariffs that Trump imposed in February. The US supreme court ruled many of those were illegal. The new levies come in at between 10% and 12.5% on countries including the UK, Mexico, Canada, Australia, India, China and the 27 countries that make up the EU.


Carney’s bewildered because his ChiCom pals are big on slave labour.

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Carney says he ‘should have lied better’ about new Gordie Howe bridge agreement

Carney says he ‘should have lied better’ about new Gordie Howe bridge agreement

Prime Minister Mark Carney says he “imperfectly” described the new deal to open the Gordie Howe International Bridge after the text of the agreement appeared to contradict his original explanation.

While attending the Calgary Stampede shortly after the deal was struck — but before the text was made public — Carney told CTV that bridge toll revenue would only be split with the U.S. after accounting for operating costs, including repaying the debt.

But that suggestion seemed to contradict the text of the agreement, which was only made public late Tuesday and made no reference to Canada’s debt.

He lied deliberately but this time his media misinformation apparatus couldn’t cover it up.

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Don’t be fooled, Big Oil is calling the shots, not Carney

Don’t be fooled, Big Oil is calling the shots, not Carney

Mark Carney is a very smart guy, but not as smart as the oil company executives who have him hog-tied.

In a barrage of recent announcements, Prime Minister Carney has clearly been trying to convince Canadians that he’s carefully mapped out a plan to reshape Canada into an “energy superpower” — a term popularized by former prime minister Stephen Harper.

But Carney’s energy superpower ambitions have a twist, differentiating him from Harper who was, although not an actual climate change denier, at least a close facsimile.

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Is Canada More Ripe for Political Disruption Than We Think?

Is Canada More Ripe for Political Disruption Than We Think?

There is a comforting story I have heard people say for the past decade about our politics in Canada.

And it goes something like this. Canadians are different. We are practical and moderate. We do not get carried away by ideological movements or political strongmen. While other countries lurch from one political upheaval to another, Canada generally stays somewhere near the middle.

Just like how for decades people said we wouldn’t debate immigration. And that anti-immigration policy sentiment couldn’t come to Canada.


Canada is being torn apart, prepped for slaughter by the Liberal Party’s mass immigration of incompatible cultures.

Don’t for a second doubt our erasure is not deliberate.

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BARBER: Carney the rockslide — how elite ego and anti-American posturing wrecked Canada-US relations

BARBER: Carney the rockslide — how elite ego and anti-American posturing wrecked Canada-US relations

Interestingly, Ambassador and Deputy United States Trade Representative Rick Switzer appeared on the YouTube channel of the Council on Foreign Relations. The Ambassador is a veteran diplomat with decades of experience. He has also founded ProjX Technology Consulting and taught graduate courses at the National Intelligence University. Mr. Switzer has echoed the same critique of Prime Minister Mark Carney as I have already published. In short, he stated that Carney has made the negotiations between Canada and the US personal, has “gone out of his way to be antagonistic,” and that this approach is “political malpractice.”

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Canada does not owe international students a path to residency

Canada does not owe international students a path to residency

Canadian residency was available for purchase just a few short years ago. Everyone involved knew what was going on – the colleges, the universities, the immigration “consultants,” the provinces and federal government, and prospective new Canadians. They all recognized that if an individual checked the appropriate boxes, made the correct attestations and could muster up tuition for one of the hundreds of Designated Learning Institutions (DLI) in Canada, he or she could probably stay in Canada for the long-term. In 2024, 98 per cent of those who applied for postgraduate work permits (PGWP) were approved.


Those who signed off on this criminal act of national subversion should be jailed.

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GOLDSTEIN: Do the math, Liberals — we need fossil fuels

GOLDSTEIN: Do the math, Liberals — we need fossil fuels

Computer science and artificial intelligence pioneer John McCarthy famously said that, “he who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.”

He meant that when dealing with complex systems, decisions must be based on hard numbers and data, as opposed to ideology and emotion.

That explains how Canadian energy policy became a train wreck under the Justin Trudeau Liberals, starting in 2015 when they took power.

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Trump’s new tariffs signal CUSMA may no longer protect Canadian trade, experts warn

Trump’s new tariffs signal CUSMA may no longer protect Canadian trade, experts warn

On paper, Donald Trump’s latest tariffs only apply to about five per cent of Canada’s goods exports.

But they set a precedent of ignoring the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement on trade (CUSMA) that economists, trade experts and business leaders warn could inflict much wider damage. They also use a legal mechanism that gives the U.S. president a lot more flexibility.

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Chinese EVs are a bundle of security risks in a metal box. Do we really want them?

Chinese EVs are a bundle of security risks in a metal box. Do we really want them?

A $25,000 electric vehicle sounds like exactly what Canadian consumers have been waiting for. But when that bargain comes from China, the real cost may have little to do with the sticker price.

Earlier this year, as part of the strategic partnership with China, Prime Minister Mark Carney agreed to allow up to 49,000 Chinese electric vehicles (EVs) into the Canadian market at a favourable tariff rate. These EVs have just begun to arrive with prices between $25,000 to $35,000 – approximately half the current average cost for an EV in Canada. But before Canadian consumers get too excited or seek to jump behind the wheel of a freshly imported BYD or Dongfeng, they should understand why Canada had a prohibitive tariff rate on Chinese EVs prior to this year and what security risks the high-tech automobiles pose to both drivers and the country as a whole.

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Carney won’t rule out retaliation to latest tariff threat

Carney won’t rule out retaliation to latest tariff threat

OTTAWA – Prime Minister Mark Carney did not rule out retaliation in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest tariff threat on a number of Canadian goods, part of the latest escalation of the U.S.-Canada trade conflict.

“We have a situation where the American tariffs, the 338 tariffs, will come into effect in 29 days, and we will look at all options in terms of how we would respond if they do come into effect,” Carney told reporters in Ottawa on Tuesday.

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Ottawa calling …

Ottawa calling …

h/t Patti Jo

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Who are Canada’s big city leavers? Mainly 25 to 44-year-olds, with young children

Who are Canada’s big city leavers? Mainly 25 to 44-year-olds, with young children

Toronto’s middle class is packing up and moving out at such a rapid pace that the city’s population is dropping. Montreal and Vancouver are also in the midst of a similar outmigration.

It’s not only bad news for those cities; it also harms the country as a whole by slowing economic growth, straining our health care system, and increasing political polarization.

This migration out of cities is not just a Toronto story. While the City of Toronto saw 40,000 more people move out to other parts of the country last year than moved in from elsewhere in Canada, Peel Region lost even more, at 45,000.


But Toronto has so much to offer!

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China’s Long Arm Is Reaching into Canada, And Ottawa Isn’t Ready

China’s Long Arm Is Reaching into Canada, And Ottawa Isn’t Ready

OTTAWA — China’s new Ethnic Unity Law should not be viewed in isolation, nor should it be dismissed as inapplicable to foreign nationals or Canadians. It is the latest addition to an increasingly sophisticated legal architecture through which Beijing seeks to extend its political authority beyond its borders. Officially titled the Law of the People’s Republic of China on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress, the legislation was adopted by the National People’s Congress in March 2026 and entered into force on July 1, 2026.

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How Canada Keeps the Conservatives Shut Out of Power

How Canada Keeps the Conservatives Shut Out of Power

In April, almost a year after last spring’s federal election delivered a minority government, Mark Carney’s Liberal Party inched its way to a majority by poaching a string of floor crossers from opposition parties. The new-found majority further strengthens the hold of a party that has been in power for 60 percent of Canadian electoral history. This makes them among the most successful political parties in the Western democratic world.

A Walrus piece.

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