Chrystia Freeland: "This notion that Canada is hard to get along with — Canada is the only G7 country that has a trade deal with every other G7 country. So the rest of the world finds it pretty easy to do trade deals with us, and they want to do it."
Here are screenshots from the same video (CBC story from last year) The Canada goose persevered, survived, and the Eagle flew away
(h/t @Karl_Schamotta for link to the story, which provides context and undermines Trump's post)
"The United States wanted Canada to apply U.S. tariffs to other countries, particularly when it came to steel, now and in the future: If the United States changed policy and place higher tariffs on certain goods from a third country, Canada would need to do the same, even if it already had a trade agreement in place..."
"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
Love her or not, here is the record Mayor Olivia Chow has built heading into the upcoming elections:
1. Handed DVP & Gardiner to Ontario (saved Toronto $1.9B)
2. Deployed 100+ traffic agents, cutting intersection blocking by 96%
3. Upgraded Toronto’s credit rating to AA+ for the first time in 23 years
4. Froze TTC fares 3 years in a row & kept Scarborough Busway on track
5. Cut 911 call wait times from nearly a minute down to seconds
6. Passed strict local rules targeting bad-faith renovictions
7. Expanded year-round park washrooms & 7-day library service to all 100 branches
8. Reduced visible homeless encampments by 70%
Debate the policies all you want, but these are the numbers on the board.
*Special* August 24, 2026: Canada-U.S. trade talks collapse, Trump threatens more tariffs, was it the right decision for PM Carney's government to walk away ... is a deal still possible? https://t.co/g2tKfaWFy7
@RosieBarton@ACoyne@ChantalHbert@AlthiaRaj 🇨🇦
(Bloomberg) — President Donald Trump, who has argued that the US does not need Canada, lamented Monday that his northern neighbor did have something he wants: aluminum.
https://t.co/4A6kT4Gc81
My goodness. Kate (Harrison) is still pushing for details of the deal, (unrealistic stance), but she also claims the PM has a trust deficit. Are there special polls that only ask a specific segment of the #cpc their opinion, because real polls suggest the opposite? #PnPCBC
Separate out the oil America buys from Canada and the relationship is a trade surplus for America. These guys have become accustomed to thinking their supporters will buy anything they say. I think that tide is running out.
I find myself angered everytime I see a post about Cdn military serving alongside US military in WW2
Motherfuckers,I know you mean well
BUT
we were there 3 goddamn yrs,bleeding and dying,before your nation finally put boots on the ground
SO
it is you who served alongside us
The sheer number of lies from President Trump about Canada – growing again today – is remarkable. Just some fact checks from the last 18 months:
- Trump falsely said today that Canada's unemployment rate is "10% and rapidly rising,” though it is 6.4% (under the Canadian method that adds about a percentage point) and has been declining for three months
- Trump falsely said today that Canada does 95% of its business with the US, though 72% of Canadian exports went to the US last year
- Trump falsely said today that high Canadian agricultural tariffs have caused the entire US trade deficit with Canada, though that deficit is overwhelmingly caused by US imports of cheap Canadian crude and though something like 97% of US ag exports to Canada are tariff-free
- Trump has falsely said Canada generally doesn’t “take” US agricultural exports, though Canada is the world’s second-biggest buyer of those exports
- Trump has falsely said the Canadian public likes the idea of becoming the 51st state, which the Canadian public overwhelmingly opposes
- Trump has falsely said Canada is one of the world’s highest-tariff countries, though it is actually low in WTO global rankings
- Trump has falsely said Canada essentially doesn't have a military, though its military has fought with the US in multiple wars and its force size ranks in the upper half of NATO
- Trump has falsely said Canada hiked its dairy tariffs during the Biden administration, though they hadn’t changed since Trump’s first presidency
- Trump has falsely said the US trade deficit with Canada is “$200 billion,” though it is nowhere close
- Trump has falsely said Canada prohibits US banks, though it doesn't and though more than a dozen US banks were operating in Canada at the time he spoke
- Trump has falsely said Canada is “constantly surrounded” by Chinese and Russian ships, though that is fiction
- Trump has falsely said then-outgoing PM Trudeau was using their trade battle to run again for prime minister, though Trudeau obviously wasn’t running
First @LoblawsON got caught "maple-washing" imported food, and now they're hiding the country of origin. Hiding product origins during an era of constant US food contamination and safety recalls is dangerous. They aren't just gouging Canadians; they're gambling with public health