Honestly, I believe that this whole “Team Canada” response to Donald Trump’s tariffs is just stupid and it will only end up hurting Canada much more than it would hurt the US. Compared to the US, our economy is so weak that the US wouldn’t even care if we put 100% tariffs on all goods coming from the US into Canada or completely stopped buying all goods from the US.
I think that a much better response to Trump’s tariffs would be to simply fix the Canadian border and stop relying on a single country for most of our trade. But no, thanks to Justin Trudeau, our parliament is currently prorogued, meaning that we currently can’t pass any legislation and actually get to dealing with the problem and the Liberals refuse to un-prorogue parliament to buy time for the Liberals to allow them to choose their leader. Instead of actually solving the problem, they manufacture a crisis out of this whole scenario (when the solution is so simple).
Also, before you start saying that I’m not for Canada, I have to say that I am a Canadian citizen and that I want Canada to do well. I just don’t agree with the Liberal “Team Canada” approach.
I also think that while Mark Carney is most likely going to become the leader of the Liberal party and our unelected Prime Minister, he’s only going to make things worse for Canada. Here are my reasons:
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He and the WEF were behind all of Justin Trudeau’s bad policies. For example, it was initially Mark Carney’s idea to implement the Carbon Tax, which has only made basically everything much more expensive and it ironically doesn’t even help the environment at all. Not only that, but some of the same Liberal ministers who used to support the Carbon Tax are going against it. Mark Carney, however says that he’s going to implement a permanent Carbon Tax.
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He’s a member of the WEF, a group that in my opinion appears on the surface to want to do things like end racism, end world hunger, stop climate change, and stuff like that, but when you dig deeper, they’re downright power-hungry communists. For example, the WEF once had this ad (which they now deleted because nobody liked what they were saying), which you can watch here: https://youtu.be/omAk1gMyw7E. They literally say in the beginning “You’ll own nothing. And you’ll be happy. Whatever you want you’ll rent and it’ll be delivered by drone”. Isn’t that literally how ownership was in the USSR, except without the drones? I highly recommend watching the video and paying close attention to what they’re saying. They also pride themselves in infiltrating cabinets in various countries including Canada (which I think is the exact definition of foreign interference): https://youtu.be/daE0jthD5F8. Not to mention that Klaus Schwab himself says that Vladimir Putin was educated by the WEF.
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There are 2 basic principles for doing a psyop: message amplification and message suppression. Message amplification is basically when a certain message is being amplified, for example by using bots on social media that only say one thing or make the popular news organizations only say only the message that you want them to say. Message suppression is punishing those who give a message opposing yours and/or erasing their messages. I’ve noticed that there a lot of bots on Mark Carney’s Facebook account that basically say positive things about him like “I’ve previously considered voting Conservative, but after this I’ve completely changed my mind! Voting for Mark Carney!”. You can tell that most of the “people” who say stuff like this on his Facebook account are just bots. In addition, most of the mainstream news media, which is by the way mostly funded by the federal government and therefore have an interest in telling only the message that the government wants them to say, has recently become all pro Mark Carney, while the independent news media (which are not funded by government) are saying a different message. This is screaming psyop for me.
I don’t mean to offend anyone here. I’m just voicing my opinion.
Okay. Thanks for making a new account to voice your opinion, I’m a little wary but I’ll start in good faith. Carney and Freeland have ties to the Canadian government sure, but Carney has better credence to say he is less politically minded and has a resumé filled with global experience, especially in contrast with Poilievre. Meta is a bot on bot platform, so I don’t really care what people are saying over there and on Twitter.
With respect to the response to tarriffs, when you say fix the border, I have only one question for you: How many illegal immigrants and how much in illegal drugs does the CBSA, border czar and whatnot need to catch in order to satisfy Trump enough to call off tariffs?
Too little and Trump will say Canada is not doing enough and letting crime slip through. Too much and Trump will insist Canada is still full of crime. And the trade war itself was started over one suitcase worth of fentanyl. Hopefully you can see that accepting the bully’s premise on the border is unwinnable for Canada.
Thats the thing. It will never be enough to satisfy Trump. He’ll always push the goal posts, change the finish line and set up something else that we have to reach for to satisfy him. More drugs and guns come north than south, and they do absolutely nothing and take none of the blame for that with their border agents, but Canada’s the problem. The problem isn’t America, the problem isn’t guns, the problem isn’t drugs. The problem is the Trump maga movement.
Ok, true, but I believe Poilievre has a lot more of experience being a minister than Carney.
Good question. Suppose that Poilievre wins the next election and actually manages to stop most of the crime in Canada and greatly secure our borders to intercept most of the drugs going from Canada to the US and catch most of the illegal immigrants (however I believe bringing crime to 0% and making it completely impossible for illegal immigrants and drugs to get through is literally impossible), and yet Donald Trump still says that Canada is full of crime and goes on with the tariffs. In that case, we’d still have less crime and more secure borders. Plus, maybe it could be possible to negotiate with Trump like how Danielle Smith has done?
Plus, it is quite risky to have most of your trade being done with only 1 single country. I believe that Canada should stop relying on the US so much for trade anyways and trade more with other countries.
Edit: I also forgot to mention that there are a lot of criminals who get into Canada legally as refugees because of our bad border policies and that during the previous Conservative government, nobody was complaining about our borders or the immigration. So, maybe we can just revert to what we previously had before Trudeau?
You’re certainly entitled to your opinion, but it appears to me that you’d think we’d get much farther than we actually are likely to by acquiescing to Trump.
Look at what sanewashing and pre-emptively bending to Trump’s will has gotten the largest media organizations: nothing but kicked out of their dedicated press offices. All I see in Poilievre and Smith, are two people willing to let Canada become America’s vassal.
the only place where I a may agree with you is diversifying our trade partners. The rest of “bend over and take it from bully” is a load of horse hockey. Smith is a snake in the grass throwing country under the bus for the sake of oil industry which is largely… foreign owned. So we can and should stand up to bully, not sure whether Lib strategy is any good, but US takes to meddling in our country politics and that’s no good at all.