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N.D.G.–Westmount Conservatives have picked a candidate who said last month that key Trump adviser Elon Musk holds leader Pierre Poilievre in high esteem — and that a Conservative MP’s close relationship with J.D. Vance is a bonus.

“People close to (Donald) Trump have respect for Pierre Poilievre,” said lawyer Neil Drabkin, who is listed on the Conservative party website as the candidate in the Montreal riding. “Elon Musk, in particular, who has become the bestie with Mr. Trump … has said very favourable things about Mr. Poilievre. And perhaps we don’t need to go further than that kind of relationship for Mr. Musk to whisper in the ear of Mr. Trump.”

WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans are less likely to see Canada and the U.S. as close allies than they were two years ago, the latest indication that President Donald Trump’s tariff threats and talk of taking over a neighboring ally are souring a critical economic and military relationship.

The U.S. shift in viewpoint comes primarily from Democrats, though Republicans are less likely to see Canada as America’s ally now too, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. While about 7 in 10 Democrats saw Canada and the U.S. as close allies before Trump returned to office, now that number is down to about half. For Republicans, the number dropped from 55% to 44%.

OTTAWA — U.S. President Donald Trump says he had “an extremely productive call” this morning with Prime Minister Mark Carney.

In a shift in tone, Trump is referring to Carney as Canada’s prime minister instead of the governor of an American state.

You know, if you substituted the word Poilievre for Carney in the statement from Trump, Canada's left would go wild and say Trump was interfering in the election by presuming who will win it. pic.twitter.com/s5tUtGNQPg

— Cory Morgan (@CoryBMorgan) March 28, 2025

Hard-left hysteric and Yale professor Jason Stanley is fleeing to Canada and tax-funded television is on it. Amanpour & Co. trumpeted that night’s guest, Yale professor Jason Stanley, absconding the US in the subject line of the show’s promotional email: “EXCLUSIVE: ‘How Fascism Works’ Author Jason Stanley Plans to Leave the U.S.”

Score 1 for Team Trump.

Canada’s prime minister has said the era of deep ties with the US “is over”, as governments from Tokyo to Berlin to Paris sharply criticised Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs on car imports, with some threatening retaliatory action.

Mark Carney warned Canadians that Trump had permanently altered relations and that, regardless of any future trade deals, there would be “no turning back”.

He told reporters: “The old relationship we had with the United States based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation is over.”

Sounds like Carney is pulling us out of Norad and even NATO! We can forget about Aukus too. China loves this guy!

If I were Smith and Moe I’d open up a backchannel.

FBI Director Kash Patel warned the U.S. needs to be ‘more vigilant’ about what is coming in across the Canadian border as adversaries have ‘adapted.’

The top law enforcement officer made the claim while testifying before lawmakers in the House Intelligence Committee about global threats on Wednesday.

‘Known and suspected terrorists are flowing in through our northern border more than they are our southern border,’ Patel warned.

He attributed it to the ‘successes we’ve had at closing our southern border.’

A Yale professor who studies fascism is leaving the US to work at a Canadian university because of the current US political climate, which he worries is putting the US at risk of becoming a “fascist dictatorship”.

Jason Stanley, who wrote the 2018 book How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them, has accepted a position at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.

Stanley told the Daily Nous, a philosophy profession website, that he made the decision “to raise my kids in a country that is not tilting towards a fascist dictatorship”.

Lucky Us.

Economic strength can translate into geopolitical advantage.

President Donald Trump is approaching world politics with geoeconomic means for a geopolitical purpose. His reinvigoration of the Monroe Doctrine in the Western Hemisphere, military pivot to the Indo-Pacific, and rapprochement with Russia in Europe is the geographic part. His tariffs, encouragement of foreign investment in the United States, promotion of domestic energy production unhampered by climate regulations, and domestic cuts in government programs is the economic part. Back in 1990, the strategic thinker Edward Luttwak wrote that the world was moving from geopolitics to geoeconomics. But, as Luttwak certainly knew, economics has always been an important component of geopolitics. Trump the businessman understands that.

China understands it, too. Its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is geoeconomics on steroids, extending China’s economic influence throughout Europe, Africa, and the Western Hemisphere. The BRI uses economic power to advance China’s geopolitical interests. Trump is merely doing the same thing with his America First policies.

Ontario expects the U.S. administration to significantly ease the impact of auto tariffs on Canada, following a phone call from Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to Premier Doug Ford on Wednesday, according to a source.

Mr. Lutnick called Mr. Ford on Wednesday evening, according to a senior Ontario government source, after U.S. President Donald Trump announced auto tariffs during a news conference. The Globe and Mail is not identifying the source as they are not authorized to speak publicly about internal discussions.

Sounds a bit like Good Cop Bad Cop.

I suspect that many of the same companies that manufacture here now will be forced to relocate to the States or shut down.

The Canadian market it is said is not large enough to sustain a domestic auto industry. 

The EV Fantasy has crashed and burned so what’s next? Unending bailouts?

This will help.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he wants to “inflict as much pain as possible” on the American people pic.twitter.com/rKZTj3Xpwe

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 27, 2025

OTTAWA – U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening large tariffs on the European Union and Canada if they work together to do economic harm to the U.S.

In a post on social media, Trump says the tariffs would be “far larger than currently planned.”

The comments follow Trump’s move to impose 25 per cent tariffs on all automobile imports to the U.S. starting next week.

Trump declared his intention to impose even steeper tariffs on the European Union and Canada should they choose to align their tariff policies against the United States. pic.twitter.com/H29YAt6DDW

— The Tradesman (@The_Tradesman1) March 27, 2025

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith responded on Wednesday to the barrage of criticism she’s faced from across Canada for her recent diplomatic efforts and media appearances in the U.S.

During Wednesday’s afternoon session in the Alberta Legislature, Smith said she’s been unjustly criticized for her attempts to persuade officials that a trade war between the U.S. and Canada would be a bad idea. She defended her strategy, characterizing her actions as entering the “lion’s den” to change the hearts and minds of Americans that Canada needs on its side