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Stagecoach Turns Pumpkin
Midnight came and Cinderella‘s stagecoach has turned back into a pumpkin. But we are still all here and most likely united more than ever before.
The details kept getting worse all week. No relief on softwood lumber. Aluminum and steel tariffs would still be at 25%. Auto tariffs still at 15%.
Trump saying that a deal was in place on Tuesday. JD Vance, laughing at Canada, particularly at Pierre Poilievree, calling him a non-entity. You did get that one right JD. How has your couch been doing lately? No, never mind.
Then there was talk about how the results of these negotiations would affect the results of the CUSMA negotiations. And after all this, the US still wanted their booze back on our shelves
Mark Carney had no choice. Basically he said screw this and he sent his negotiating team back home.
No one knows, right now, how this is gonna end. But, everything Donald Trump has touched of late has turned into crap. Just look at Iran. Canada will stick this out. It will be tough, but you don’t mess around with an angry Canada goose, you just don’t.
That’s all I have.
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Headwinds For Carney
Mark, the 50% tariff deadline is tonight. You gave a briefing to the premiers as to how the negotiations are going. Initially, you got favourable responses from premiers, such as the premiers of Saskatchewan and Alberta. Of course Danielle Smith because it is not going to affect her at all.
But things are getting a bit messier, Mark. Wab Kinew, premier of Manitoba, came out swinging.
“Everybody knows the American president by now, he’s erratic, he’s irresponsible, and he’s not to be trusted. And this is the person that we were supposed to make a deal with, and we’re going to make additional concessions for it. That’s why I say you can’t make a good deal with a bad person, because who’s to say it’s not going to be undone?”
Kinew added that he would support the team Canada approach and he would possibly put US alcohol back on the shelves. But at the same time he urged Canadians to keep buying Canadian goods, including Canadian liquor.
Christine Frechette, premier of Quebec, gave similar comments about Donald Trump.
“As Donald Trump’s threats continue to loom over Quebec, my priority remains the same: to protect our workers, our jobs, and our businesses, and to avoid an escalation of tariffs.”
She added that she still needs more information, so she’s kind of waiting and seeing. She is in a bind because she’s facing an election and right now her party is losing to the Parti Quebecois. So any weakness she shows on Quebec economic interests will be used against her, immediately.
Mark, you also have Ontario. Doug Ford, who has so far been silent. The mayor of Sault Ste. Marie, a steel town and my hometown has been doing interviews the last day or so and he says the reduction from 50% to 25% on steel will do the steel industry no good
Mark, you have a high approval rating currently. A lot of that is due to your elbows up approach. Saying that no deal is better than a bad deal. Given the responses by the premiers of Manitoba and Quebec and most likely Ontario,
where a number of your seats come from, you need to tread very carefully. Canadians if they think there are too many concessions could turn on you. The problem is where would they go given Pierre Poilievre’s favourability rating of only 18%
That’s all I have.
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Valuable Lesson
A trade deal might be in the works. Tariff rates for goods such as steel aluminum and vehicles will go down. The question is, will the degree of decrease, be enough to satisfy Canadian producers of these goods. If they can live with it fine. If not, it becomes another story.
Two premieres, including Scott Moe of Saskatchewan, have already expressed support for the tentative deal. The thing is, the goods that Saskatchewan exports are not really being hit by the tariffs.
As of this morning, Doug Ford has been silent. Ontario has been hit hard with tariffs on steel and the auto industry. If he comes out in support of the tentative deal that’ll be a big plus for Mark Carney. But if he’s against the deal that pretty well guarantees back to the drawing board.
Mark Carney has asked provinces to put US booze back on the shows. The question is will the Canadian consumer buy US booze. It appears that a majority won’t.
Another issue is Donald Trump himself. He might agree to a deal tomorrow and then next week might want to renegotiate again. That’s what happens when you deal with someone with mental stability issues.
Will Canadians start going back to the US. Some will. Many, including myself, won’t.
Canada has learned a valuable lesson here. Never depend on one country for trade again, ever. Mark Carney has spent the last year diversifying, but Canada still has a long and painful way to go
That’s it for today.
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TACO Trump Strikes Again
TACO (Trump Always Chickens Out) has struck again. He has delayed his 50% tariff threat on Canada until Saturday now. Big surprise, not.
Trump even says that a deal is in place. Sure, like a deal with Iran is in place. Ottawa, on the other hand, says there’s still a lot of work to do, before a deal is set.
One sticking point would be Canada importing alcohol from the US, again. The Americans fail to understand that alcohol distribution is a provincial responsibility. All-the Canadian provinces except for my home, province, of Alberta, of course, and Saskatchewan have banned US alcohol sales on shelves. Do you think British Columbia will allow US imports if nothing is done on software lumber. Do you think Ontario will allow US imports of liquor if the province is hard hit by tariffs on automobiles. So there needs to be a tit for tat and I can’t see that happening right now.
But probably the main reason that Trump has delayed the imposition of tariffs is because Canada has turned NASTY. Our negotiation team has turned. NASTY. Mark Carney has turned NASTY.
One last thing, Mark Carney is a successful businessman. Donald Trump is a failed casino owner.
That’s all I have.
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Memory Of A Flea
Polls across the spectrum shows Mark Carney with a much higher favourability rating than a Pierre Poilievre and the liberals with much higher polling numbers than the conservatives. PP supporters are saying that the polling companies are being funded by the liberals or that the polling process conducted favour the liberals
These supporters need only go back to December 2024, the month before Justin Trudeau resigned and two months before Mark Carney won the liberal leadership convention and became Prime Minister. All the polls, each, and everyone, had the conservatives with a big lead, a major they cannot lose the election lead. Yet they did. PP supporters were not complaining then that the polling companies were funded by liberals
Same thing is happening in Alberta right now, with separatist polling numbers trending downward, OK donkey cookie cookie in a major way. Reality is raising its head.
That’s all I have for today
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Rather No Deal
The August 19 tariff deadline is only two days away, now. Donald Trump has set that day as the day, if no deal is struck, he will add a 50% tariff on $20 billion worth of goods exported by Canada. The goods subject to this tariff would greatly affect the provinces of BC, Ontario and Quebec while leaving alone is 51st state targets of Alberta and Saskatchewan. His divide and conquer approach.
Donald Trump must be living in the past when he thinks about Canada. The 1950s and 1960s version of Canada where we looked up upon the US as a big Brother that we wanted to be like. Donald, we are no longer that. Donald you pissed us off and we’re meaner than a Canada goose protecting its territory.
Read the tea leaves Donald. A big indicator is that Mark Carney’s support rating is in the high 60s. Yours is at the lower 30% range. More important, Pierre Poilievre, who continues to refuse to bash you and continues to blame Mark Carney on the trade negotiations stall, rather than on you, has an 18% approval rating.
That means Canada is still behind Mark Carney in a big way. We will not back down Wednesday. We have put up with your crap long enough. I don’t know how Mark Carney will retaliate when these 50% tariffs kick in, but I trust him to do the right thing and that right thing will not be caving into you. Get that through your freaking head Donald.
That’s all I have.
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War Ends Day One
Donald all through President Biden‘s term you said that you would end the war between Russia and Ukraine on day one. During your 2024 election campaign you kept beating Americans over the head with this prediction. Well, you are a year and a half into your term. Russia and Ukraine are beating the crap out of each other as evidenced by the image above, the result of an attack on Russia.
What bothers me is that so many of your countryman fell for this insane prediction and voted you in. Then again, these are the same morons who believed you when you said that Americans would not pay tariffs. It would be the exporting countries.
I don’t know what happened to your education system in the states, but it really needs to pick up its game. I never thought I would see a war in Europe in my lifetime. Yet here we are, you and your freaking buddy Putin.
Oh yeah, by the way, how’s that Iran thingy going. You know when you said you beat them on day one. You’re an incompetent fool, Donald. I have no respect for anyone, I do mean anyone who voted you in.
That’s all I have for today.
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Where Is Melania
Donald, do you know this person? Do you know where she is? She hasn’t been around for the last month. She was not with you at Lindsey Graham‘s funeral. She was not with you at the White House correspondence dinner.
Maybe she’s a bit upset with you. When you hid in that cart, in Turkey, to go to that other plane, you left behind Marco Rubio, but you took your whatever she is, Natalie Harp. it is so cute that whenever you call her Natalie, you use a French accent.
What is up with that Donald, she is 35 and you’re 80. Yet she’s looking at you with those adoring eyes. I think I’m gonna get sick.
Just remember, you’re supposed to be the macho warrior even though you’re a five-time draft dodger. Joe Biden went to Kyiv. He took a train, exposing himself to a number of dangers. You took a food cart. See the difference, Donald?
That’s all I have.
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Greenland Does Not Want You
Donald, will you give it a break already? I know you have messes all over the place, such as Iran and now Canada coming close to saying, shove it with your trade deal offers but you still are trying to get Greenland?
Maybe you should take a look at your reflection in the reflecting pool, oh sorry you can’t, I forgot about that mess, But did you really think your end around would go unnoticed?
Back a few months ago, your envoy to Greenland said that Greenland will be ours and that we will be pumping out oil in 10 months. Greenland Energy, which has a lot of connections to your administration, actually brought drilling equipment on shore, in July, to start drilling, by September. The only problem is the government of Greenland did not give permission to Greenland Energy to do so.
This is what the government told the Greenland Energy company
“The necessary regulatory process cannot be completed, and the necessary approvals cannot therefore be obtained before the planned start of drilling.”
I somehow or other think that Greenland will deny any approval of your friends‘ project. Your envoy said that there’s $1 trillion worth of oil that potentially can be extracted which would definitely help negate, the oil shortage caused by your war with Iran.
So, Donald, what what are you going to do if Greenland denies approval. Are you just going to go ahead and become a pariah to the world? Would you actually risk a confrontation, an armed confrontation, with your NATO allies? Oh, you have the weaponry to take over Greenland, without doubt. But your NATO allies have other weapons, such as trade. Your economy would be ruined.
You’re move Donald.
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Not Backing Down
Donald, this is Janice Charette. She is the lead negotiator on the USMCA trade negotiations. She has the look of one very determined woman. In fact, she played an influential role in getting Justin Trudeau, when he was Prime Minister, to invoke the emergencies act, during the freedom convoy crisis. So I guess she is kind of a no holds barred woman.
There is some news coming out that Canada is not happy with what the US is offering in these trade negotiations. Canada, us, we are the ones not happy. This is all a game for you, Donald. Because when the final deal, whatever that is, is presented to you next week, you will not approve it. We already know that this is what will happen. You are still expecting us to roll over and die. But that’s not gonna happen.
A few things to remember Donald. Mark Carney before he became Prime Minister was a successful businessman. You got $400 million from your daddy to start your business career yet how many bankruptcies have you gone through? You even bankrupted yourself running a casino. A casino Donald!!
One other thing, Donald. Mark Carney‘s approval ratings are in the high 60% range. Yours is going towards the 30% basement. We are liking what Mark Carney is doing. Your country is not liking what you are doing.
Donald while you are busy alienating allies and trade partners, Mark Carney has been making negotiations and agreements with countries throughout the world. So, don’t be surprised if we’re the ones walking away on August 19. Because we are not that much into you anymore Donald we never were actually. And we don’t need the US as badly as you think or hope.
That’s all I have for today.
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