Mark Carney killed the deal for political gain.
Then he lied about it.
Now he is telling Canadians to prepare for pain while most of his investments & Brookfield moved to the USA.
Agreed..this anger towards Trump is accomplishing nothing,.we are all losing and it will hurt jobs and businesses not Mark Carney, Brookfield or his pals.
Canada’s official gold reserves: 0 tonnes.
Ukraine’s gold reserves: 27.37 tonnes.
Canada, one of the most resource-rich countries on Earth, holds ZERO gold in its official reserves.
Explain that one.
This is also another great example of why "waiting out Trump" is not a trade strategy. Democrats are NOT friendly to Canada on trade, and will NOT give up the leverage Trump leaves them if they win the White House in 2028.
🇨🇦 Canada’s retaliation deserves scrutiny. What did it gain and what did Canadians pay?
Negotiate the quotas. Enforce the rules against tariff evasion. Protect market access.
The scoreboard is Canadian jobs and paycheques, not how loudly politicians say “elbows up.”
Nine days is not a factory, Matt.
It is a meeting. Teams said ninety. Mark said nine. Everyone smiled. You called it aggression. I call it a calendar trick sold as industrial policy.
You love the deal. Fine. Russian aggression is real. People under drones are not a metaphor. Officials now put Canada’s assistance since 2022 past $26 billion, more than $8.5 billion of it military. That column exists. What does not exist is the page that puts that cheque next to the commercial drawer Ottawa keeps open with Beijing on the same week.
Canada is paying for interceptors. Beijing is running the till. Reuters, today, described how Iranian crude sold into China is converted into credits for Chinese goods, infrastructure, kit, and, sources say, air defence. China took more than 80 percent of Iran’s shipped crude in 2025. Russia pins inventories. Iran supplies oil and pressure. Beijing collects feedstock and a laboratory in sanctions evasion. They do not need a signed alliance. They have a division of labour. Our failure is a division of files.
You want that same “speed” for everything. Then look at the register, not the podium.
The CAF inventory is about 2,000 drones of all types. The new marketplace and first contracts are meant to multiply that. One-third of future production is pledged to Ukraine. That is a transfer of Canadian output before Canadian units have the stockpile a serious country would already own. Special processes for Kyiv. Normal processes for ourselves. You treated that contrast as a compliment. It is the confession.
Icebreakers: a 2019 promise. First steel next fall. First ship 2032. Full replacement fleet 2038. They replace aging hulls. They do not enlarge the fleet this winter.
Gull Island is still targeted for 2036–37. Definitive contracts are not even due until March 2027. A photograph and a federal guarantee are not megawatts.
Housing, corridors, title finality, interprovincial barriers priced like a self-imposed tariff, business investment per worker down from nearly 90 cents on the American dollar in 2007 to 54 cents by 2024, labour-productivity growth 26.7 percent here versus 67.9 percent in the United States from 1999 to 2025. Those files do not get the nine-day treatment. They get process.
The “100-year partnership” is political language. The UK version already carried a six-month termination clause. Ours is explicit that it is not a self-executing legal straitjacket. Calling a non-binding declaration a century is Carney theatre. Architecture first. Steel later. Rooms first. Register later.
I am not isolationist. Alliances built on reciprocity matter after we rebuild domestic strength. Speed for export drones while the Arctic fleet, the grid, the mines, and the housing stock sit behind stacked reviews is not sovereignty. It is a presser.
Close the drawers. Put the Ukraine outlay, the China opening, Iranian oil settlement, and dual-use leakage on one cabinet page in the same week. Then tell me what the partnership is worth.
Production before process.
Capacity before jurisdiction.
Evidence before narrative.
Citizens first.
Canada first.
Precision over propaganda. Evidence over excuses. Truth Marker: π ≈ 3.14159
1. I love this deal.
2. I love that the PM showed that kind of aggression.
3. This is another example of how Canada can move quickly when it chooses to.
3b. Our military proved MUCH faster at procuring stuff for Ukraine under special processes than itself with normal ones.
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@Nasdad_TO I'm sure all those UK & European men won't be very keen on marching off to war while leaving all the 3rd world immigrants (who will be exempt from conscription) back home to tend to their women and children. Just a thought.
@Nasdad_TO Dude, California has the same amount of people as Canada but twice your GDP. Canadians can dream but there will never be a member of an adversary alliance sitting next to the United States.
I have this feeling that this new transatlantic alliance may well become a NATO without the United States: an alliance that builds a military and industrial complex able to rival and deter pressure from both the U.S. and China in ways many of us are not yet imagining.
Canada and the EU are waking up to our political realities and building deterrence from Vancouver to Kyiv.
“in the world we need to live in, not in a magical world, in the world as it is, not as we wish it to be.”