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Summary
Mark Carney, frontrunner for Canadian Liberal Party leadership and potential prime minister, stated Canada will stand up to a bully after Trump imposed 25% tariffs on Canadian imports.
Carney vowed to retaliate by matching the US tariffs dollar for dollar, asserting Canada would not cave in despite mounting pressure.
He criticized Trump for undermining trade agreements, warning that the tariffs would damage the US global reputation and economic stability.
Outgoing Prime Minister Trudeau promised a forceful, immediate response, emphasizing unity as Canada defends its economic interests, ensuring national prosperity.
Smith isn’t, and, as an Albertan, it’s goddamn embarassing. Nothing authoritarians like more than a bigger authoritarian.
Probably has more to do with her being in the pocket of the oil industry.
Heard an old bitch (Alberta) complaining yesterday in my store about something Joe Biden did.
And Scott Moe in Saskatchewan.
Honestly, all of this “51st state” bullshit has been a gift to Canada. For far too long the leaders on the right have been appealing to Canadian MAGA by emulating and praising everything Trump and his ilk do, and now they’re being forced to either turn on Trump or turn on Canada. In something like a week he’s shattered the alliance between the American right and the Canadian right, and left them absolutely spinning in the wind, searching for some sense of identity.
A smarter version of Trump would have kept his mouth shut until Pollievre was in, and then started to lean on him through back channels for consessions, just like Bush did with Harper. That filthy traitor would gladly give Trump everything he wants without a fight. But for Trump it’s about the fight; slapping tariffs on other countries makes his tiny dick feel a little less tiny.
When your main identity is nationalism it just doesn’t make sense to work together with any foreign leader.
All of these guys are stupid really. It would’ve made sense for Pollievre to not push for no confidence and just wait until October where he’d be up against Trudeau and probably win. But he got his way and Trudeau resigned. Now is he going to force an election in the winter where he’s running against a stronger candidate? Last election the Liberals took a big hit in the polls from calling an unscheduled election. How many points will Pollievre lose if he makes a winter election happen?
Pollievre went all-in on US style politics and it’s wearing thin. Running endless ads outside of a campaign has made people sick and tired of him. When his US brethren tank the economy people might question whether being “anti-woke” is sound economic policy.
It’s still his election to lose, but it seems he’s doing everything possible to make that happen.
His other big problem is that he’s just not very likeable. People hate Trudeau, so they were willing to side with anyone who would get him out. But with Trudeau gone voters are now faced with the fact that they really don’t much like Pollievre either.
But, they don’t like Freeland either. And Jagmeet Singh has proven to be pretty useless.
It’s still really likely that the conservatives would win in a landslide. But, at least now their rhetoric has to switch from copying the US to opposing the US.
Other than getting us pharmacare and dental added to our health care, sure.
Pharmacare? Has it arrived? Or is it something they’re still working on? As for dental added to healthcare, are you sure? Or was it just added for people with low-income?
That’s on the Liberals, the NDP forced them into action.
This is like the fifth time the NDP has managed to change all our lives for the better while not even the official opposition, but they get called ‘useless’ either way.
As if the Australian ScoMo wasn’t bad enough, now there’s two of them…
“This is getting out of hand!”