Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is getting support from an unlikely ally for refusing to sign on to a communique that would have curbed US oil exports — Ontario’s manufacturing sector.
That’s because the Coalition of Concerned Manufacturers and Businesses of Canada (CCMBC) has expressed strong support for Smith in her firm stance against Ottawa’s energy policies and potential US tariffs despite pressure from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and fellow premiers including Ontario’s Doug Ford.
BREAKING. Donald Trump says 25% tariffs coming February 1st if Canada cannot get the border secured.
Can Trudeau get out of the way so Canada can implement a substantial border security plan and avoid tariffs? pic.twitter.com/9YzmQDGmbO
— David Krayden (@DavidKrayden) January 21, 2025
WE WILL BRING PRICES DOWN.
WE WILL EXPORT AMERICAN ENERGY.
WE WILL END THE GREEN NEW SCAM.
WE WILL REVOKE THE EV MANDATE. pic.twitter.com/YfAHk1OsLY
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) January 20, 2025
This can’t be good for Trudeau’s EV Battery scam.
America is free from the electric car nightmare. In Europe, it’s just beginning
With one flourish of a presidential pen, they will be free. Amid the blizzard of executive orders that President Trump has said he will sign in the next few hours, one of the most significant, for the economy at least, will be his decision to end the rules forcing American auto manufacturers to focus their energies on electric vehicles.
President Trump is determined to go back to something that until recently would have been considered completely normal: a free market in cars. Under President Biden, a tax credit – in effect a subsidy – of up to $7,500 was awarded for every EV sold. And environmental rules were blamed for effectively forcing auto makers to make a larger proportion of their new vehicles electric.
“Canada to USA. Safe Reach,” the Facebook post says. “No police. Low price. Payment after reach.”
“Canada to USA. Safe Game. Cheapest in Market. 100-per-cent guarantee,” reads a post on Instagram.
Smugglers offering to help people cross the border illegally into the United States are openly advertising their services on social media. The Globe and Mail has found multiple posts from people smugglers who are promoting “safe” routes to the United States, including from Montreal and British Columbia, with some claiming there will be no police involvement or checkpoints.
Trump Set To Deploy Troops at the Southern Border, Among Other Day-One Actions
President Trump plans to swiftly deploy elements of the American military to the southern border, beginning the crackdown that he had promised from the first day he launched his campaign more than two years ago. The president-elect will also end some Biden-era programs that allowed millions of migrants to be paroled and settled into the country.
Mr. Trump’s promise of the largest deportation operation in American history was one of the major pillars of his campaign, and unlike 2017 when his administration was staffed by political neophytes, he and his team have had four years during this interregnum to begin drafting executive orders.
WASHINGTON—President-elect Donald Trump is planning to issue a broad memorandum Monday that directs federal agencies to study trade policies and evaluate U.S. trade relationships with China and America’s continental neighbors—but stops short of imposing new tariffs on his first day in office, as many trading partners feared.
The presidential memo directs federal agencies to investigate and remedy persistent trade deficits and address unfair trade and currency policies by other nations, two longstanding Trump irritants. And it singles out China, Canada and Mexico for scrutiny, directing agencies to assess Beijing’s compliance with its 2020 trade deal with the U.S., as well as the status of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA, Trump’s updated North American Free Trade Agreement, which is set for review in 2026.
WASHINGTON, D.C.—A new sphere of American hegemony, with Canada as the 51st state. That sounds fantastic to the man in the purple-hemmed toga and the gold laurel wreath that’s perched around his “Make America Great Again” ballcap.
He’s going for irony, donning the garb of a Caesar for laughs when so many have warned that Donald Trump could imperil democracy in the American republic. Like a centurion, he holds a long staff with a banner that portrays a silhouette of Trump after a would-be assassin’s bullet grazed his ear last summer. A flag with the stars and stripes streams down Trump’s face, instead of blood.
“I think it would be fantastic… for global, political and economic power,” says the man, 27, whose name is Logan Howard.
Donald Trump has stated his intent to impose 25-per-cent tariffs on all imports from Canada on his first day in office. Let’s consider what we did the last time Mr. Trump imposed tariffs on Canadian exports.
In 2018, Mr. Trump imposed tariffs on Canadian exports of steel and aluminum under the national security provision (Section 232) of the U.S. Trade Expansion Act. Canada retaliated tit-for-tat, and the American tariffs were withdrawn under a deal that put a ceiling on increases in Canadian exports.
In Canada’s arsenal of possible responses to a Trump tariff, the nuclear option is the threat to withhold, reduce or place export tariffs on Canadian energy.
Already, the mere suggestion of such a tactic has caused a split between the government of Alberta, on one side, and the governments of Canada and all other provinces on the other.
Tariffs on imports from the U.S. have the potential to cause pain to certain industries and regions, but Prime Minister Justin Trudeau himself has acknowledged that the effect of Canada’s import tariffs would be diluted by the size of the U.S. population and economy.
Canada-led proposal to end international fossil fuel financing dies with incoming Trump administration
A deal on ending public financing for foreign fossil fuel projects — which Canada co-led on the world stage — has died in the face of key holdout countries and the incoming administration of U.S. president-elect Donald Trump.
Canada, along with the U.K and European Union, proposed in 2023 to end financing through export credit agencies — government agencies that support foreign trade — for oil and gas projects abroad and divert the money to clean energy instead.
The U.S. under President Joe Biden threw its support behind the deal only right after the presidential election in November of last year, setting off a mad dash to get an agreement before Trump’s inauguration. Ultimately, it wasn’t enough time.
The Trump tariffs are coming Monday and Canada simply isn’t ready.
We don’t know the full extent of the tariffs, such as whether there will be a carve out for oil, but barring a miracle, we should expect sweeping measures to be imposed on Canadian imports by early Monday afternoon.
Immigration raids that were to begin in Chicago shortly after Donald Trump was to be sworn in as president are being reconsidered after the plans for a sweep in Chicago to net 300 illegal alien criminals leaked to the media late in the week.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) thought it was doing the right thing by purchasing drones to monitor the border with the United States, but it chose a Chinese brand that the Americans no longer want to see flying, Radio-Canada has learned.
The organization purchased DJI drones, despite knowing they cannot be used at the border , a Canadian agent from theGRC, who is not authorized to speak publicly.
It’s still before dawn when hundreds of Chinese missiles begin to rain down on Taiwan. Much of the self-governing island’s air and naval forces are obliterated in a matter of minutes. Chinese special forces storm the residence and offices of the Taiwanese president, executing the “decapitation strike” they’ve trained for years to carry out. Swarms of aircraft and drones pound Taiwanese defences, as up to 50,000 People’s Liberation Army (PLA) paratroopers descend on the island, attempting a blitz assault to capture landing zones for a helicopter-borne second wave before making a drive for the beaches.
Hundreds of thousands of PLA troops are about to make landfall in the largest amphibious operation since D-Day. The long-anticipated invasion of Taiwan has begun.
President-elect Trump has set out an ambitious goal to enact 100 executive orders, according to reports — or, in some cases, less formal executive actions — in just his first day in office, which begins on Monday.
Dubbed by Team Trump as a “shock and awe” campaign, Trump’s executive orders and actions will reportedly range from the border and immigration to the economy and energy, as well as tackling cultural issues, so many, in fact, that he joked during the campaign that he wants a “tiny desk” at the Capitol, the site of the swearing in, where he can sit and sign orders.
OTTAWA — He is not a Canadian and he is certainly not a Liberal, but U.S. president-elect Donald Trump has had a huge influence on the race to replace Justin Trudeau.
Before the end of the weekend, the Liberal leadership field should be set. Former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney announced Thursday that he would seek the job of party leader and prime minister. Government House Leader Karina Gould is expected to announce her bid this weekend, and former finance minster Chrystia Freeland announced her candidacy on social media Friday morning, saying she was “running to fight for Canada.”
What gall.
Join the fight for Canada. pic.twitter.com/hArOytLUSU
— Chrystia Freeland (@cafreeland) January 18, 2025
