Luc Bezaire

[Luc Bezaire @LucBezaire]

@sarobertson_ Except .... today same Greer agreed to remove language issues from agreement. Just lost whatever credibility he had and no longer deserves any benefit of doubt. BAD FAITH NEGOTIATORS. Deals signed in pencil are pointless. Maybe Congress will grow a spine after midterms.

[Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩 @acoyne]

“…yet ultimately worth it to preserve tariff-free access for the vast majority of Canadian exports.”

What is the evidence that it would preserve tariff-free access to anything? Even at the negotiating table, the US side explicitly reserved the right to set tariffs later at any level they please, including the tariffs it was proposed they reduce as part of the deal.

And this was only the prelude. The full blown CUSMA talks promise more of the same: more threats of tariffs, backing demands for more concessions. Suppose we made those concessions, as we did in 2018, as we did in 2025 and (if you had your way) 2026. And suppose this time Trump promised that was the end of it: no more tariffs, no more demands. Then he’d just renege. As he did to us in the past. As he has done to others.

Your whole argument is premised on a situation that does not exist, as if this were a normal negotiation with a negotiating partner. It isn’t. Grasping that key fact isn’t “losing our heads” or inflaming passions. It’s understanding reality.

[Luc Bezaire @LucBezaire]

The energy disaster that Trump is setting up North America for. Yes .. I say North America ... because as a Canadian I can't see where our neighbor and our markets next door can be allowed to be decimated by the policies of an idiotic administration.
https://t.co/5eynGGk1RU

[Luc Bezaire @LucBezaire]

@TONYxTWO “You shall not make for yourself an idol…” (Exodus 20:4)
The first of 10 commandments forbids creating false gods for worship. You call yourself a Christian. Not only hypocritical, but frankly, unbelievably idiotic.

[Luc Bezaire @LucBezaire]

@Microinteracti1 @WhiteHouse The stable genius can't figure that out and Greer is too subservient to point that out to his boss. Trump has nothing but weak people working for him, too cowardly to give Trump the bad news that he misunderstands how trade really works.

[Luc Bezaire @LucBezaire]

@WhiteHouse 60B? You spent more than that on Canada oil. For a country that brags their self sufficiency in oil? I don’t doubt your self sufficiency, that just means you took all that oil, upgraded it, sold it outside US ... even Canada ... for profit. A stable genius would figure this out.

[Luc Bezaire @LucBezaire]

@sarobertson_ Peter McKay folded to Harper & the Alliance Party hours after a written agreement with David Orchard promising to not merge the parties. He would cave to Trump faster than he could shuck an oyster.

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

A truly impressive number of issues with one sentence. https://t.co/xa5mtsrnnZ

[Luc Bezaire @LucBezaire]

Canada really needs to upgrade it's electrical grid to focus on less US integration, and more on simple export. The integrated electrical market cuts the legs out from much of the leverage electricity can provide.
https://t.co/iqKO95bHzt

[InfoGram @_InfoGram_]

June 18: 🇺🇸Trump buys up to $500K in Boeing stock. Same day Boeing gets $880M US Navy contract.

June 24: 🇺🇸Trump buys up to $250K in Palantir stock. Same day Palantir gets $45.8M government contract.

In any functioning democracy, this would be called massive corruption and he would have faced at least 2 years in jail.

[Jeff 💋 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraini ❤️🥰 @Always_Me_Jeff]

BREAKING: CNN's fact-checker exposes an AVALANCHE OF LIES from Trump about Canada — and there's a new one almost every day.

Donald Trump doesn't just have policy disagreements with Canada. According to CNN's chief fact-checker Daniel Dale, who happens to be Canadian himself, Trump has built his entire trade war narrative on a foundation of demonstrably false claims — and the lies keep coming.

Just today, Dale documented, Trump falsely claimed Canada's unemployment rate is "10% and rapidly rising." The actual number: 6.4%, and it's been DECLINING for three straight months. Trump also falsely claimed Canada does "95% of its business with the US." The real figure is 72%.

He blamed the entire US-Canada trade deficit on high Canadian agricultural tariffs, despite the fact that roughly 97% of US agricultural exports to Canada are already tariff-free, and the actual deficit stems overwhelmingly from cheap Canadian crude oil imports that benefit American consumers.

And that's just today's batch. Dale's running tally over the past 18 months reads like a highlight reel of fabrication.

Trump has falsely claimed Canada doesn't buy American agricultural products, when it's actually the world's SECOND-LARGEST buyer of them. He's falsely claimed Canadians support becoming America's 51st state, when polling shows overwhelming opposition.

He's falsely claimed Canada is among the world's highest-tariff nations, when World Trade Organization rankings place it near the bottom. He's falsely claimed Canada "essentially doesn't have a military," ignoring that Canadian forces have fought alongside American troops in multiple wars and rank in the upper half of NATO by force size.

He's also falsely inflated the US trade deficit with Canada to "$200 billion" (nowhere close), falsely claimed Canada bans American banks (more than a dozen currently operate there), falsely claimed Canada is "constantly surrounded" by Chinese and Russian ships (fiction), and falsely accused former PM Trudeau of using trade tensions to run for reelection — despite Trudeau, quite obviously, not running.

This isn't policy disagreement. This is a dispute over the nature of reality!

This is a sitting president manufacturing an entire economic conflict with one of America's closest allies using numbers he simply invented, over and over, across nearly two years, with virtually no correction or accountability.

When the facts don't support your trade war, apparently the solution is just to make up new facts. Someone needs to tell Trump that the world doesn’t work like that, and it may as well be CNN’s Daniel Dale.

Please like and share if you’re sick of Trump’s lies!

[Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩 @acoyne]

"The Canadians also pressed the United States for a level of certainty that the deal would not be scrapped overnight by the Trump administration. But the United States maintained that it would retain the power to change tariff policy against Canada at any time, irrespective of the agreement..."

How U.S.-Canada Tariff Negotiations Turned Into an All-Out Trade War - The New York Times https://t.co/uxcdBZZWhX

[Luc Bezaire @LucBezaire]

I guess Americans will soon be able to clearly identify those that have a spine and those that don't ... those that are willing to compromise principles approving consolidation of power under a corrupt president.

[Rep. Don Beyer @RepDonBeyer]

I have introduced legislation to block Trump's abuses of tariff powers and restore trade authority to Congress where it belongs.

I have also voted to end Trump's idiotic trade wars - including with our Canadian friends.

Americans hate this, and some of us are fighting back.

[Luc Bezaire @LucBezaire]

https://t.co/g08caS73aq

[ProudCanRobz 🇨🇦 @RMapleCan]

The New York Times, citing several sources, confirms the Canadian version of why negotiations collapsed:

- Lutnick interfering under pressure from certain US industries to maintain higher tariffs and exclude trucks
- US demanding that Canada applies any US tariffs on other countries regardless of Canada’s trade agreements with them
- US insisted that it would retain all power to change tariff policy against Canada at any time, irrespective of the agreement - hence the pencil signature comment.

https://t.co/3UpqrKnnZq

[Dimitris Soudas 🇨🇦⚜️🇬🇷☦️ 13.12.1943 @DimitrisSoudas]

A little history is useful here.

There was a time when the Canada–U.S. relationship was considered so important — so fundamental — that even words spoken privately carried consequences.

When I worked for Stephen Harper while he was Leader of the Official Opposition, an aide in Prime Minister Jean Chrétien’s office privately referred to President George W. Bush as a “moron.”

We were in opposition, and we considered it unacceptable. So did Prime Minister Chrétien. The aide ultimately resigned.

Think about how far we have travelled since then.

Today, an American president can be called a bully or a loser. Canadians can tell him, quite literally, to “kiss our ass.” What once could have been a firing offence has become an expression of something much deeper: just how badly Donald Trump has damaged what generations of Canadians and Americans worked to build.

This was never an ordinary bilateral relationship. We disagreed — sometimes profoundly — but underneath those disagreements was a reservoir of trust, respect and friendship. It was treated almost as sacred because both countries understood its value.

Donald Trump has squandered much of that goodwill.

And perhaps his greatest miscalculation is confusing Canadian kindness with Canadian weakness.

We are polite. We are patient. We prefer friendship to confrontation. But none of those qualities should ever be mistaken for weakness.

Canada did not suddenly become hostile toward the United States. Canadians are reacting to a relationship that has been repeatedly tested, insulted and taken for granted.

History will remember many things about this period.

Canadian weakness will not be one of them.

And so, Mr. President — speaking on behalf of myself, and only myself:

Sir, you are a moron.

https://t.co/WwW6XcDXZg

[Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩 @acoyne]

Exclusive: footage from last minutes of Canada-US negotiations, night of August 18.
https://t.co/jRGFIVi9uV

[Luc Bezaire @LucBezaire]

@NewsHour If this had happened a year ago would Canada have approved the Bunge-Viterra merger?

[Luc Bezaire @LucBezaire]

This is what is meant by US buying cheap Canadian oil. There is a discount that US gets to pay because of our limited ability to export to other than US. But since that is the oil that is being purchased by US refiners, it is also the most economic.
https://t.co/7IdwJswcWg

[Jason Pugh 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @TheJasonPugh]

WATCH: “The United States has a handful, and I’m being generous, of icebreakers; we have twenty.

Yeah, one. I was being generous. I rounded up. They have a habit of doing that there.” - @MarkJCarney

#cdnpoli @realDonaldTrump