Canada’s counter-tariffs are expected to raise prices. Should you buy products ASAP?

Canada’s counter-tariffs are expected to raise prices. Should you buy products ASAP?

As Canada’s retaliatory tariffs on the U.S. are set to take effect next week, many consumers are anxious about the impact of the surtaxes on affected items.

Experts like Ian Lee, an associate professor at Carleton University’s Sprott School of Business in Ottawa, said the federal government’s counter-tariffs will make American items pricier for Canadians.

“If they’re planning on buying them anyways, they should probably buy them before Sept. 8,” Lee said in a video interview with CTVNews.ca on Monday.


Carney’s goal is Beijing’s goal. He doesn’t care that you will be hurt.

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Victor Davis Hanson: Canada Wants a Fight It Can’t Afford

Victor Davis Hanson: Canada Wants a Fight It Can’t Afford

Canada’s growing confrontation with the United States is about much more than just tariffs. Trade imbalances, Chinese goods entering the American market through Canada, taxes on U.S. companies, and Mark Carney’s political strategy have pushed relations with Washington to a new low.

At the same time, Canada faces weak economic growth, enormous immigration pressures, separatist movements in Alberta and Quebec, and continued dependence on the United States for its defense. Picking a fight with America will not solve those problems.

Carney lying? Say it ain’t so! This is an evisceration of Carney and sadly Canada.

Sorry Elbow people but the Liberals are worse than Trump.

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A $4 billion hit: What Carney’s tariff retaliation could cost Canadian consumers

A $4 billion hit: What Carney’s tariff retaliation could cost Canadian consumers

On Sept. 8, roughly $30 billion in imports from the United States will face Canadian tariffs of between 15 and 50 percent. This is our response to the 50 percent U.S. tariffs now applied to approximately five percent of our exports.

Overall, I estimate Canada’s average tariff response works out to about 30 percent, on average, across affected goods. That’s roughly 60 cents of response for every dollar of U.S. tariff. While not full dollar-for-dollar retaliation, as the government frames it, it is still a large response. And it comes on top of certain retaliatory tariffs already in place from last year.

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Trump hailed after Canada poaches American academic ‘talent’ including professor of TRANSGENDER philosophy

Trump hailed after Canada poaches American academic ‘talent’ including professor of TRANSGENDER philosophy

President Donald Trump has been praised after it was revealed woke American professors are being poached by Canadian universities, including an academic who teaches transgender philosophy.

California State University philosophy professor, Talia Mae Bettcher, who is transgender, is among the many American-based educators who have packed their bags and headed north to Canada to become a part of the $541 million research funding project.

‘I knew I had to leave,’ Bettcher, who is a native Canadian but taught in Los Angeles, told The University of Waterloo, her new home.

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What Are the Stakes for Canada After Trump’s US-Venezuela 65 Billion Barrel Oil Deal?

What Are the Stakes for Canada After Trump’s US-Venezuela 65 Billion Barrel Oil Deal?

U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Aug. 28 that the United States had reached what he called “the biggest oil deal in world history,” giving the United States majority control over the development of more than 65 billion barrels of Venezuela’s proven heavy crude reserves.

While oil-rich Venezuela remains significantly behind Canada in oil production after years of infrastructure neglect and political isolation, experts say the country’s potential return to the global oil market could increase pressure on Canada from its neighbour to the south and largest energy export customer.


Ouch.

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Head of Defence Investment Agency to step down after one year in job, sources say

Head of Defence Investment Agency to step down after one year in job, sources say

Former banker Doug Guzman is expected to depart as head of the federal government’s newly created Defence Investment Agency after only a year on the job, two sources say.

The sources told The Globe and Mail that Mr. Guzman is frustrated by the slow pace of government bureaucracy in getting defence procurement projects moving and approved.

Mr. Guzman was an important player in the July decision to purchase 12 conventionally powered submarines from German company TKMS for the Royal Canadian Navy, one source said, and has demanded quicker action on procurement files during his tenure.


The LPC strategy is to wait out Trump and then resume Canada’s deadbeat on defence status.

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Carney’s Critical-Minerals Pitch Draws Protest Coalition With CODEPINK Ties

Carney’s Critical-Minerals Pitch Draws Protest Coalition With CODEPINK Ties

OTTAWA — The Ring of Fire sits about 500 kilometers northeast of Thunder Bay in the muskeg of Ontario’s James Bay Lowlands, on Treaty 9 territory. Prospectors found it in 2007 and named it after a Johnny Cash song.

Beneath the peat moss lies the Canadian Shield, deeply seamed with nickel and cobalt for batteries used in electric vehicles and smart phones, copper for the grids that power data centers, titanium, platinum and palladium for aerospace, and the largest deposit of chromite — critical to stainless steel — in North America.

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FBI Says Chinese National Studying In Canada Took Paid Taskings to Photograph Airplanes In Toronto and Chicago

FBI Says Chinese National Studying In Canada Took Paid Taskings to Photograph Airplanes In Toronto and Chicago

OTTAWA — While the case of Biwei Zhang moves through the courts in Brussels, where an appeals court has extended the detention of the Canadian intern from China accused of espionage inside the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s military high command, a second file involving a Chinese national living and studying in Ontario — whose phone, United States officials found, held photographs of himself and others in tactical formations holding rifle-styled firearms, after he was caught photographing American aircraft in Chicago and admitted to a similar operation at Toronto’s airport — is opening in federal court in Michigan.


Seems the LPC is a ChiCom subsidiary.

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Tasha Kheiriddin: Liberal byelection sweep cements Carney’s flag-rallying strategy

Tasha Kheiriddin: Liberal byelection sweep cements Carney’s flag-rallying strategy

“It’s a great time to be a Liberal in Canada.”

Those were the words of a smiling Tanveer Shahnawaz, the Liberal candidate in Beaches—East York, celebrating his victory Monday night. They may also be the political understatement of the year. Shahnawaz was one of three Liberals who swept Monday’s federal by-elections, winning his Toronto riding with 56 per cent of the vote. The party also held North Vancouver—Capilano in B.C. and took Chicoutimi—Le Fjord from the Conservatives in Quebec.

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Joel Kotkin: Carney aligns with the anti-free speech China and EU

Joel Kotkin: Carney aligns with the anti-free speech China and EU

U.S. President Donald Trump’s much disliked visage will soon be passing, by biology or the Constitution, from screens. But it will take a bit for Canadians to ally openly with the United States, whatever the compelling geographic and economic reality.

Yet in their passion to dish on Trump, Canada seems to now align instead with China and the European Union. This shift could hasten Canada’s descent into its own authoritarian future. As a few leftist academics move to Canada to escape Trumpian proto-fascism, let’s look at how Canada’s new friends view free speech.

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Belgian Court Extends NATO Spy Suspect’s Detention as European Reporting Shows Canada Consented to an Investigation of the Intern It Had Cleared

Belgian Court Extends NATO Spy Suspect’s Detention as European Reporting Shows Canada Consented to an Investigation of the Intern It Had Cleared

BRUSSELS – A Belgian appeals court on Monday rejected the release appeal of Biwei Zhang, the Canadian intern accused of involvement in a criminal organization and of espionage inside the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s military command. The Chamber of Indictments in Brussels extended her pre-trial detention by a month.

The ruling comes days after a European investigative consortium published the most detailed reporting yet on how the closely guarded case began, and on what Canada’s part in it was.

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GOLDSTEIN: Canada’s standard of living ‘largely stagnated,’ falling further behind U.S., report says

GOLDSTEIN: Canada’s standard of living ‘largely stagnated,’ falling further behind U.S., report says

The gap in living standards between Canada and the U.S. has more than doubled over the past quarter-century, with Canada increasingly lagging behind the U.S., according to a new study by the Fraser Institute.

The report by the fiscally conservative think tank also found the sharpest decline occurred post-2014, meaning during the decade the Justin Trudeau government was in power.

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US and Canada brawl over hockey sticks — so China skates off with big trade wins

US and Canada brawl over hockey sticks — so China skates off with big trade wins

It’s like a fistfight between conjoined twins: The United States and Canada are throwing tariffs and insults at each other tit-for-tat in one of the most unnecessary trade wars in recent memory.

“I don’t want Canadian cars. I don’t want Canadian parts. I don’t want Canadian anything,” President Donald Trump posted Sunday, before comparing the tariffs on Canada to his administration’s war against Iran.

But while Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney try to check each other into the boards, China is skating free — scoring economic goals at will and choking out North American manufacturing.

Carney lies.

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Trade talks collapsed. Now Canada and the US are fighting over why.

Trade talks collapsed. Now Canada and the US are fighting over why.

Janice Charette, Canada’s top trade negotiator to the United States, is challenging Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s version of events that a last-minute ask by the Canadians on autos caught the Trump administration by surprise and helped doom the deal.

Ever since talks collapsed on Aug. 21, Canadian and American officials have been blaming each other for making too many last-minute requests. Both sides are now jostling for credibility as reliable narrators, while the fallout risks further escalating the trade war.

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