The "LOLCANADA" thread...again

+1 obviously

I wonder how this is going to end. With companies investing 100's of billions (when was the last time a company invested +10B in Canada?), DOGE, tax cuts, etc. happening in the US probably not good.

I don't really understand your point. Yeah Canada is basically a resource economy to American manufacturing and consumption. Canada is also the number one export market for America. We have a hugely integrated economy with America and they get to be higher on the value chain then us in a bunch of industries: see uranium enrichment, crude refinement, car manufacturing, even potash for farming production. They buy our ****, add value to it, and sell it including back to us.

We have a lot more leverage than you think because that 22% of GDP exports are mostly input resources that are quick or easy to replace. There is plenty of leverage to make sure the pain is mutual. There aren't really any other moves for Canada. We need to weaken them back and apply pressure or we get ****ed in any negotiations.

Hopefully this is a wakeup call to Canada that the USA is an unreliable partner and being their docile resource satellite was always naive. Time to build our own vertical value-add sectors and diversify markets.

lol “end wokeness”, gotta love your Twitter feed.

You assured us we just needed to SECURE THE BORDER but then we cut the already paltry 1% by 97% and the tariffs still happened so maybe some humility that it wasn’t about that would be a good start.

With recent events under consideration, I think this probably ends in short-term hard times for Canada and Mexico, and mid-term/long-term the irrevocable diversification of Canada's economy away from the USA, with possibly wide-spread breaking of military-based contracts by every country that isn't America with the American defence contractors totalling hundreds of billions of dollars lost.

So America will contract and decline, more responsible actors will fill the power void, and the world will be a better place for everyone.

Sounds like a win win.

Im curious were do you think you will source

• Heavy Crude that your mid states can only refine.
  
• Potash for your farmers and fertilizer
  
• Electricity that powers many states
  
• Uranium
  

it seems to me that a USA excursion (coerced or otherwise) into Greenland, Panama or Canada is becoming more likely than not. if an excursion does happen, the likelihood of the other two excursions happening gravitates toward 100% imo

No one? Which is why the US will contract and more responsible actors will move in on the world stage.

I am on your side. The US will give up its economic empire, and become more isolationist. And the world will be a better place, since the US is a singular evil holding the rest of the world back.

I think a better question is where is Canada going to sell it? Thanks to people like Uke and Quebec the East coast has no access to Alberta energy. Our only real market is the USA. If our leaders were serious and not using this "trade war" as theatre we would be calling parliament back, emergency actions to eliminate provincial trade barriers, build pipelines and pause any unnecessary taxes. But our leaders are incompetent and are instead pulling liquor off the shelves and treating it like the moon landing.

so if parliament was called back, surely you'd advocate the conservatives support the current government to implement crisis response legislation and delay an election for a while?

Or do you mean "calling parliament back" to immediately force an election?

I mean that we currently have a minority government and a Prime Minister that has resigned negotiating on behalf of Canadians in what I am told is the biggest crises the country has ever faced. Call Parliament back and whatever happens, happens. Politics shouldn't matter if this is the greatest threat ever.

The new Liberal leader can call Parliament back if he/she choses to do so. Trudeau is doing fine on this.

You want parliament back so that all three parties can campaign through the House of Commons? We don't need that now. We need one voice responding to Trump playing whack a mole.

Lol at "whatever happens, happens". Don't waffle. You pretended to care about some get-back-to-work scheme when obviously the party you support is going to call an immediate election and do none of that get-back-to-work you are protesting about. Setting aside politics and delaying the election until after this crisis for the parties to work together on a response might be a good idea. But it isn't one you actually support, so there is no need to pretend to care about. Actually if you like this idea, you might find yourself agreeing with Singh who floating some tepid ideas of not forcing an immediate election for precisely this reason. But that's what your side wants.

Trump just gave Mexico a reprieve, but not yet Canada.

Clearly Mexico is doing fine on fentanyl and illegal immigration and Canada is doing poorly.

Or, Trump is butthurt because Canada won't kiss his ass. So Canada gets to stew for a bit.

That's a good sign. Hopefully we will follow later today. Lutnick was suggestiong both earlier today.

It sucks dealing with a ****ing moron with so much power:

I as sure as heck wouldn't Knowing Trudeau he would double the deficit on handouts to folks that do not need them

The responsible thing to do for JT is to step aside and let Carney be at the helm and call an election

I love how we keep pulling Donald's pants down and bum rushing him every time he tries the tariffs. What an absolute clown.

Its stressful on liquor store employees as well. remove the US liquor , pit the liquor back, remove the us liquor

So the countries that cool and calm play the game with Trump, such as Japan and Mexico, it works out better than the ones that go into moral outrage histrionics.

Who would have guessed that?

patience folks

It would be amusing in a very macabre way if the end result of all of this was the liberals staying in power for “resisting Trump” and keep selling out the country to China.

"keep". Can you list the liberal policies that have currently sold out the country to China?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_government_interference_in_Canada

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Chinese government interference in Canada - Wikipedia

—and that is just the stuff we know about, thanks largely to media investigations. On top of a giant trade deficit Trudeau actually went to China to allegedly try to fix, and they made it clear who was the boss and sent him packing.

And Who knows what pro china shenanigans the media missed.

It isn't stressful, it only happened once