A Lawton has worked in Canada’s auto sector for more than a century.
Their children are “fifth generation Ford workers”, Kathryn Lawton said, and she and her husband both work for the carmaker in Windsor, the heart of Canada’s automobile sector, just a bridge away from the US state of Michigan.
So when US President Donald Trump suggested that Canada stole the American auto industry, Chad Lawton calls it “ludicrous”.
Donald Trump’s tariff crusade has frequently made Lewis Carroll’s Mad Hatter look like a paragon of sanity. While is it is tempting to mock and deride the United States at the moment, Canadians need to remember where our economic bread is buttered. Despite anything politicians or leaders may say, and like it or not, Canada’s economic future and success is tied to the United States for the foreseeable future.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said Prime Minister Mark Carney was being disrespectful last week with comments he made about her role in the trade war with the U.S.
Last weekend in Victoria, Carney joked about Canadian premiers appearing on Fox News, the conservative U.S. media outlet, saying it would be a “bad idea” to put Smith on the network to advocate for cross-border diplomacy.
Canada’s food processing sector is becoming increasingly vulnerable – not merely due to global market volatility, but as a direct consequence of Ottawa’s policy decisions.
In choosing to retaliate against U.S. protectionism with formal counter-tariffs, Canada now finds itself aligned with China as one of only two countries to pursue such measures. While these actions may serve domestic political optics, they are inflicting measurable and lasting harm on Canada’s food manufacturing ecosystem.
History’s great Benjamin Franklin is credited with saying, “Nothing is certain except death and taxes.”
I would paraphrase Franklin’s wise words with this update: “Nothing is certain except these people always being wrong: former Congressman Joe Walsh…MSNBC’s prince of darkness Lawrence O’Donnell…and virtually any cast member on The View.”
I wonder what the US knows about Carney and the Liberal Party’s collusion with Red China.
It likely explains the lack of tariff relief that other nations currently enjoy.
Despite the great deal of sound and fury that it has generated, it is perhaps too early to assess the lasting impact of President Donald Trump’s latest fireworks on tariffs.
Some things, however, are certain.
Contrary to assertions by talking heads on the small screen, we are not heading for a global trade war.
True, the US is the world’s biggest economy and ranks second as a trading power. But its share of world trade hovers around 12 percent, or under 10 percent of its GDP. The remaining 88 percent of world trade by 192 nations won’t be immediately affected.
US officials are pleading for help at the Canadian border, claiming the “most dangerous people are coming through” the largely unchecked crossing.
The number of illegal entries from the often-overlooked northern border have plummeted since President Trump’s election in November, but the gains have mostly stalled in recent months as Customs and Border Patrol has turned its full attention to Mexico.
“They had to shift manpower to the southwest border which opened up an even greater opportunity for terrorists to come through our northern border,” said Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA), who co-chairs the Northern Border Security Caucus.
Liberal government misspending has left us ill-equipped to fight a tariff war with the U.S. – and one of the only alternatives the government has will be to increase taxes to do so.
But don’t take my word for it.
Those warnings came from Chrystia Freeland when she was finance minister and from parliamentary budget officer Yves Giroux.
President Donald Trump signed a memorandum authorizing a “military mission for sealing the southern border of the United States and repelling invasions,” giving the U.S. military the ability to occupy public land along the border in order to secure it.
The directive, released late Friday, allows the military to use federal lands for military activities, including constructing border barriers and using “detection and monitoring equipment” to deter would-be migrant invaders.
The globalists put us here. Nationalism and well protected borders are the way out and path forward. It just took a president with the balls to actually do it. pic.twitter.com/BlNIFPh1Kq
— Jason D. Meister (@jason_meister) April 7, 2025
Only Canada and China have chosen to impose counter levies in response to American tariffs.
Canada’s past chief negotiator for the new NAFTA says the country finds itself alone as one of the few globally to have used countermeasures against American tariffs.
Retaliatory tariffs on some American auto exports went into force on April 9. Canada has imposed a series of counter-tariffs to respond to U.S. levies on autos and steel and aluminum exports, as well as goods that aren’t compliant with the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA), which U.S. President Donald Trump imposed under the guise of addressing fentanyl.
If you were in need of a slightly cracked purple iPhone, a Cuban sandwich grill or a green camo PS4 controller that “works great,” there was a time when Hamilton’s buy-and-sell Facebook group was the place to be — to be specific, any time before the evening of Jan. 10, 2023.
That’s the moment when the group made an abrupt — and decisive — break with used blenders and baby clothes. In the last gasp of normalcy, someone posted pictures of a life jacket for a small dog for sale that was swiftly overshadowed, two minutes later, by a post with a photo featuring Donald Trump in a garish yellow outfit.
The Food and Drug Administration has become a “sock puppet” of the industries it regulates, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Friday, telling workers at the beleaguered agency that those industries have exerted too much influence on regulatory decisions for too long.
In a roughly 27-minute speech, Kennedy — the nation’s top health official — also said the “deep state is real,” according to transcripts of his speech and a recording obtained by The Washington Post. He urged employees to blow the whistle on their bosses if they believe superiors are approving “something that shouldn’t be approved.” And he urged employees to “break away from the bureaucracy.”
BREAKING: HHS Secretary @RobertKennedyJr declares that by September, the United States will uncover the cause of the autism epidemic and eliminate exposures:@POTUS: "Think of that, so it was 1 in 10,000 children had autism, and now it’s 1 in 31." pic.twitter.com/Y81wxzOfF1
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) April 10, 2025
The White House will no longer reply to reporters who list their preferred gender pronouns in their email signatures.
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said she does not respond to journalists who use pronouns, “as it shows they ignore scientific realities and therefore ignore facts.”
Sean Hannity and Tomi Lahren praise Karoline Leavitt for standing up to the woke mob by responding to a New York Times reporter with the following:
“Any reporter who chooses to put their preferred pronouns in their bio, clearly does not care about biological reality or truth,… pic.twitter.com/KitX0uqvMl
— DeVory Darkins (@devorydarkins) April 10, 2025
The General Motors CAMI Assembly Plant in Ingersoll, Ont., will shut down next month with plans to re-open in the fall at half capacity.
The company said in a statement Friday that production is coming to halt as a direct result of the market, and available inventory to build the BrightDrop electric delivery vehicles manufactured at the plant.
“CAMI is making operational and employment adjustments to balance inventory and align production schedules with current demand,” GM said in a statement.
A mix of electric vehicle viability and tariffs are responsible I suspect.
h/t DS
When political science professor Arash Abizadeh heard last month about foreign travellers being detained at the U.S. border, he cancelled plans to speak at an upcoming academic conference in Durham, N.C.
He believes heightened scrutiny at the U.S. border makes travel to the country too uncertain.
“Why would we subject ourselves to this?” asked Abizadeh, who teaches at McGill University in Montreal.
Leave it to the CBC to gin up the fear by featuring a Muslim as victim.
