Lynda Steele 🇨🇦

Podcaster - "Change My Mind", media trainer & performance coach - former news anchor & radio talk show host

[Lynda Steele 🇨🇦 @steeletalk]

Had a few people ask where to catch my new podcast - details below. :)

[Lynda Steele 🇨🇦 @steeletalk]

It’s called a poll. 🤷‍♀️

[Mom_Of_A_Son @MomOfASon2]

@steeletalk @angusreidorg Why are you pushing this propaganda? I loved you on ITV in Edmonton. Now all I feel is disappointment.

[Lynda Steele 🇨🇦 @steeletalk]

@DebHolloway It sure is.

[Lynda Steele 🇨🇦 @steeletalk]

That's funny. I know the widow of a Canadian soldier who died in Afghanistan while fighting in support of the Americans after 9/11. The US military mistakenly dropped a 500 pd bomb on her husband and 3 of his Canadian platoon members in a nighttime live fire training exercise.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

😳Sean Duffy threatens Canada during bizarre Fox hit 😳

Transportation Secretary Duffy for some reason weighed in on Trump's Canada tariffs, lying that Mark Carney "doesn't have a military" and threatening that if his country "thinks they're gonna go to war with Donald Trump and actually win that war with the US, I think it's foolish on their part"

Duffy also bragged about the fact that beer will be sold at today's Indycar race in downtown DC as though it's one of Trump's signature accomplishments

The whole thing was weird. Here's a supercut:

[Lynda Steele 🇨🇦 @steeletalk]

@MarkShaw24 Sure did.

[Lynda Steele 🇨🇦 @steeletalk]

New ⁦@angusreidorg⁩ poll results after trade talks broke down.

[Glen E. McGregor @glen_mcgregor]

Don’t you ingrates remember the US sending all those planes to Gander and elsewhere to help defend us on 9/11?

[Meg 🇨🇦 @nut_meggy]

Quiet, piggy.

[Ben Hodges @general_ben]

Mr Secretary, please stop embarrassing us. I served in Kandahar Afghanistan in 2009-2010 alongside Canadian Soldiers. They were skilled, courageous, and effective. We were lucky to be on the same side with them.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Canada had 138 killed and thousands wounded in Afghanistan fighting for the US after 9/11, and supported the invoking of Article 5.

Grenell is wrong and knows this

[Old Canada Series @oldcanadaseries]

“Our peaceful trading partners are not our enemies; they are our allies. We should beware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends—weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag.” - Ronald Reagan

[Lynda Steele 🇨🇦 @steeletalk]

@hsmcknight 💯

[David Rider @dmrider]

158 Canadian soldiers died in Afghanistan after Canada and its military heeded the U.S. call for help after 9/11. Many more grievously wounded. This is wildly ignorant and insulting nonsense from a senior Trump official best known for reality TV appearances

[Lynda Steele 🇨🇦 @steeletalk]

I admire them for all they are doing! Especially since the news cycle seems to have only one gear these days... full speed ahead.

[Marcella Bernardo 🇨🇦 @MBernardoNews]

Well said @steeletalk!

We have a great team of new multi-platform reporters at CBC who film, write and edit their stories before filing for radio, tv and digital media.
They’re also ready to go live during breaking news events.

It can be overwhelming, but also rewarding. 🙏

[Brett Meiselas @BMeiselas]

Canada. Mexico. The EU. NATO. Ukraine. Iran. Greenland. Allies, adversaries, longtime partners, Democrats, the media… it doesn’t matter.

Everyone Trump deals with is the problem. They’re unfair. They’re taking advantage of America. They’re acting in bad faith. They can’t be trusted.

There’s an old saying: If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you’re the asshole.

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Peter Donolo: "Danielle Smith, on just about every issue, Canada-U.S., separatism in Alberta, likes to play both sides of the game. I would encourage her to remember what country she belongs to."

[Lynda Steele 🇨🇦 @steeletalk]

ICYMI - Still thinking about my conversation with media veteran Jennifer Burke & feeling grateful I got to experience the hey days of broadcast news. The industry today is in big trouble & the young journos manning Canada’s newsrooms are paying the price.
https://t.co/mSZvB8YYur

[Old Canada Series @oldcanadaseries]

President Trump signing the USMCA (CUSMA) trade deal into law in 2020: “The USMCA is the largest, fairest, most balanced and modern trade agreement ever achieved… there’s never been anything like it.”

Today the U.S. has imposed significant tariffs on Canada, with President Trump now calling the CUSMA/USMCA deal “terrible” and “unfair” and saying he would rather not have it. "It" being the deal he negotiated and signed

[Real Mike 🇨🇦🇺🇦 Fake Ezzie @fakeezzie]

It's time to repost this explanation from Scott Galloway of how the U.S disproportionately benefits from trade with Canada, in pure economic shareholder value terms. Added bonus, he shuts up Kevin O'Leary who is speechless. #cdnpoli #ableg

https://t.co/RXOUeSpps8

[Maxwell A. Cameron @MaxwellACameron]

You can't bully a country, say you want to inflict damage, start a tariff war and then demand concessions leading to further and deeper integration and more vulnerability. I'm proud that the Canadian government has stood up to this nonsense.

[Lynda Steele 🇨🇦 @steeletalk]

Hell ya. Agree with this 100%

[Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @jkenney]

How is it possible for a Canadian politician to comment on this *without even mentioning* the constant, unprovoked attacks on our economy, and our sovereignty, by the Trump Administration?

This comment👇 bizarrely suggests that the Governments of Canada and Ontario are to blame for MAGA protectionism.

Why is the Blame Canada crowd so eager to forget that Canada negotiated and respected the terms of both NAFTA and CUSMA, but that the Trump Administration decided to begin levying prejudicial tariffs on Canada immediately after taking office?

Are Mr. Jivani and his fellow travellers suggesting that Canada somehow began this trade war? Or that we should just cravenly surrender to the latest demands of the United States, no matter how outrageous, up to and including a US veto on Canadian trade with other countries?

Are Mark Carney and Doug Ford responsible for President Trump threatening to “use economic force” to “annex or acquire Canada?” (January 7, 2020)

Did Carney or Ford cause Trump to talk endlessly about making Canada “the 51st state,” or about our “imaginary border” based on a “fake treaty?” Did they send President Trump the maps he displayed in the Oval Office depicting Canada as subsumed by the United States?

Are Ford or Carney to blame for dishonouring Canada’s war dead (“they stayed a little back, a little off the front lines;” “they’re never been there for us.”)

Was Stephen Harper somehow responsible for hoodwinking the Americans when he agreed that Canadian taxpayers would pay 100% of the Gordon Howe Bridge costs in exchange for toll revenues?

Did Canadian governments contrive the calumnies used to justify US tariffs, like:

- Canada is a major source of fentanyl exports (when the data confirm that less than 1% of US fentanyl imports are from Canada);

- Canada is a major source of illegal migration (when the data confirm that less than 5% of illegal border crossings to the US are from Canada);

- Canada is a hotbed of modern slavery / human trafficking (the insane rationale employed for today’s 50% tariffs);

When JD Vance said “the whole point of this (dispute) is to change Canada’s behaviour,” what did he mean? Change the behaviour of a reliable friend and ally that honours its trade agreements, while respecting its sovereignty?

Of course it’s fair and legitimate to offer constructive criticism of how Canadian governments have managed this impossibly difficult crisis.

But surely after 18 months of these provocations and attacks, it’s time to put patriotism ahead of partisanship.