Don Clark

Long time Toronto Maple Leaf fan. Patiently waiting to someday watch the Leafs raise the cup. The ShannyPlan will restore the Leafs' rightful place in hockey

[Rod D. Martin @RodDMartin]

Well that was quick. Crown Royal is pulling bottling out of Ontario. Stellantis is shutting down a car factory in Brampton and moving it to Illinois. Ford is considering moving tens of thousands of jobs from Canada to the U.S.

Maybe Mark Carney and Doug Ford shouldn't have decided to hold their breath until they turned blue.

[Don Clark @TML__fan]

So much for free trade with Canada, and so much for the auto industry here. There was a deal on the table ready to be signed and Carney turned his nose up on it. Feel free to blame it on Trump, but the alternative to negotiation is steady economic decline. Goodbye middle class

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🔥 President Trump is spending his Sunday absolutely RIPPING Canada, calling on auto manufacturers to return to AMERICA

"I don’t want Canadian cars, I don’t want Canadian parts, I don’t want Canadian ANYTHING. They’ve been ripping us off for DECADES, and it’s going to STOP."

"They want to be treated like a State, but they aren’t one. I deal with the Leadership of many Countries, but I find Canada to be the WORST. They are entitled no longer!"

[JayGen 𝕏 er🇨🇦 @JayGenXer]

While everyone is busy fighting over “Lake Ontario” vs. “Lake America,” here’s a friendly reminder:

On September 8, the punitive federal fuel excise tax is scheduled to come back. The Liberal punishment for having to drive to work, which don’t forget taking most of your pay check as it is!

That means minimum of 10¢ more per litre of gasoline — PLUS GST on top of that tax.

Tax the tax…

So while we’re busy defending the honour of a lake, maybe someone should ask:

Will Mark Carney still be such an amazing leader when he’s done squeezing a few more dollars out of every Canadian at the pump?

Which DOES cause inflation on groceries etc!

Priorities. 🇨🇦

[Melanie In Saskatchewan @saskatchewan_in]

I’m supposed to perform the obligatory little ritual now and pretend both versions of this trade debacle deserve equal credibility.

I don’t... I believe the Americans.

Not because they’re American. Not because politicians suddenly became trustworthy. And certainly not because Donald Trump has been canonized.

I believe them because the American account increasingly makes more sense.

Greer, Lutnick and Bessent have spoken openly and specifically about what happened. Their accounts have been remarkably consistent. They can discuss the negotiations like people who were actually involved in them, without appearing terrified that an unsupervised adjective might escape and without a teleprompter.

Meanwhile, what do Canadians get from our own government?

Carefully sterilized language. Vague explanations. Missing specifics. Scripted talking points. Every sentence apparently passed through enough communications people and lawyers to remove any detectable trace of information.

We’re being kept in the dark like bloody mushrooms while learning more about Canada’s own trade negotiations from American officials and American media than from the Canadian government supposedly representing us.

And somehow we’re not supposed to notice how politically convenient the Canadian version is.

We got:
👉🏻 Trump was unreasonable.
👉🏻 Trump changed the deal.
👉🏻 Trump threatened our sovereignty.
👉🏻 Trump forced Canada to walk away.

Trump. Trump. Trump.

Just keep Canadians sufficiently pissed off at Donald Trump and perhaps nobody asks the considerably more inconvenient question:

❓️ What exactly did Mark Carney walk away from, and why?

Because after the Gordie Howe Bridge fiasco, I’m fresh out of complimentary benefit of the doubt.

And here’s the part that absolutely reeks, discrediting any appearance of truth told by the liar in chief #MarkCarney...

If Carney possesses documentary evidence proving Trump suddenly dumped outrageous, unacceptable demands onto Canada at the eleventh hour, where the hell is it?

Seriously.

Think about what that evidence would be worth politically.

IF Carney had a piece of paper proving Donald Trump screwed Canada, blindsided our negotiators and forced our heroic prime minister to stand up, pound the table and walk away, the Liberal machine wouldn’t quietly tuck that document into a filing cabinet.

Are you kidding me?

▪︎ They’d wallpaper Ottawa with the damn thing.

▪︎ They’d hold press conferences about it.

▪︎ They’d wave it around in Parliament.

▪︎ They’d quote it in fundraising emails.

▪︎ They’d buy ads with it.

Every friendly pundit in the country would have a laminated copy by breakfast. CBC would probably commission a twelve-part documentary and an interpretive dance.

It would be political rocket fuel.
Carney could point directly at the evidence and say, See? I stood up to Trump.

And considering how desperately this government wants Canadians angry at Trump, they would squeeze every last political drop out of it.

Instead, we get:

- Words.
- Trust us.
- Trump did it.
- Don't worry about the details.
- Just keep your elbows up and direct your anger toward the orange man south of the border.

How extraordinarily convenient.

And while Canada spends years shrieking about foreign interference, demanding security clearances for opposition leaders and warning us about other countries trying to influence Canadian politics, Canadian politicians seem remarkably comfortable inserting themselves into American partisan politics.

Apparently foreign political influence is a mortal threat to democracy when it crosses the border heading north.

Heading south?
Nothing to see here, carry on.
So enough of the carefully packaged Liberal bullshit.

Release the negotiating documents.

• Show Canadians the American demands.
• Show us Canada's demands.
• Show us what changed.
• Show us when it changed.
• Show us exactly what was sitting on that table when Canada walked away.

Because if those documents prove Carney's story, his government has every political incentive imaginable to release them, and its quite odd that they haven't.

Their continued absence doesn't prove he's lying, but it sure does suggest it!

And considering the Americans are providing details while our own government feeds us verbal oatmeal, it sure as hell gives Canadians a reason to stop swallowing everything we're spoon-fed.

Mark Carney isn't an oracle. He isn't our father. And Canadians aren't intellectually deficient children who need the PMO to decide which facts we're mature enough to see.

Stop telling us whom to hate.
Show us what happened.
Then we'll decide for ourselves who is full of shit.

#cdnpoli

[Resist Mindslaughter 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @Ukrainik4Ever]

@ShannonJoyRadio Canada Geese attack the US platoon. Not AI.

[Don Clark @TML__fan]

Someone needs to remind Dougie he is not a country, nor a negotiator. Sadly every time he's open his mouth about Canada - USA trade relations, he has put his foot into his mouth. Stay away from microphones please!

[Concerned Canadian @Concern70732755]

Premier Ford revealed his unpolished rough side and lack of education !!

[Karoline Leavitt @PressSec]

President Trump Is Finally Ending Canada’s Free Ride

https://t.co/fhI4V6G0t2

[Viva Frei @thevivafrei]

Once You Understand the Canadian Government WANTS Tariffs, It All Makes Sense!

[Don Clark @TML__fan]

@JohnLeePettim13 Yep, all part of his New World Order.

[Mario Zelaya @mario4thenorth]

🤷🏻‍♂️ I told you.

Carney lied.

The “Quebec/French demands” over Canadian “sovereignty” were about the 5% revenue Canada forces streaming providers to share.

If it was about our culture like Carney said it was, he would put an end to mass migration & temporary foreign workers.

[Don Clark @TML__fan]

Nevermind Chinese vehicles being sold and exported to the US... the dumping of Chinese aluminum and steel through Canada into the US will not be allowed. Think about the economic loss if zero aluminum and steel can go south of the border. Its so much more than Chinese vehicles!

[Big Fish @BigFish3000]

Ambassador to Canada, Pete Hoekstra:
You can do what you want but are not letting Chinese vehicles built in Canada into our country. 🇺🇸

[🇨🇦 Antonio Tweets @AntonioTweets2]

The truth

[Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 @ryangerritsen]

Canadians lives just got even more expensive. Thousands of people & families will lose their businesses & livelihoods. Many industries will either shut down or exit.
Team elbows is cheering feverishly at the decision to shut down talks all while not giving a crap about real people who’s lives are being destroyed. The “best deal for Canada” will never come because people are being convinced no deal will ever be good enough & their continued support of Carney who’s only plan so far is using our tax dollars to prop up entire industries is still the greatest thing to happen to Canada.
In reality he’s just the pied piper.

[United States Trade Representative @USTradeRep]

Under President Trump, Canada has had the lowest tariffs for its exports to the U.S. market.

At the last minute, Canada walked away from a nearly completed deal that would have lowered these tariffs even further.

[@amuse @amuse]

OH CANADA: China has been stealing more than $60 billion in tariff revenue by laundering its exports through other countries. The biggest offender is Canada, and Mark Carney walked away from the trade talks to avoid upsetting the CCP by ending the scam.

[SaskRiderGal🇨🇦 @saskridergal]

Canadian song, spitting out truths! Song and official video!👇

[Cecile Shaw @CecileShaw]

One reason the Canada-US trade deal collapsed:

Canada could not promise / would not stop Chinese steel being transshipped into auto parts & then into the U.S. market.

The U.S. requires a strict “melt and pour” rule. Steel must be melted and poured in North America to qualify for preferential treatment.

This stops Chinese steel from entering Canada, getting light processing, and crossing the border as “North American” content to evade tariffs.

Recall The Canadian Steel Producers Association and Aluminium Association of Canada have both publicly confirmed Chinese dumping is happening, warning Canada risks becoming a dumping ground for China’s excess steel and aluminum.

A recent White House report on the “transshipment scam” also listed Canada as a problem country in China’s shadow network for evading U.S. tariffs.

Canada failed to deliver enforceable guarantees. Mexico accepted the melt-and-pour requirements, raised tariffs on Chinese steel and auto parts, and closed the back door.

Canada left it open and the deal fell apart.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

https://t.co/0p2S2YdKaf

[Dante Rossi @tvc1five]

This
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[Wes Jones @realWesJones]

🚨🇨🇦 WELL… TOMORROW CAME.

Carney says the U.S. changed the deal.

The U.S. says CANADA changed the deal.

50% tariffs are now here.

And Canadians are left with two completely different stories.

So I made Part II.

🎵 SHOW US THE DRAFT.

Who moved the goalposts?
Who changed the terms?
What REALLY happened in those final hours?

I don't want another press release telling me who to blame.

Put the versions side by side and let Canadians see for themselves.

Trump says Canada moved.
Carney says Trump moved.

Fine.

SHOW. US. THE. DRAFT. 🇨🇦

🎥 Sound ON. Watch to the end.

🔁 Repost if you think Canadians deserve the receipts.

#ShowUsTheDraft #Canada

[Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 @ryangerritsen]

This is Carney today admitting that limiting trade with China due to forced labor practices was part of the deal he walked away from.
Translation - Ya we care about forced labor, but not enough to stop dealing with Chinese markets that may or may not use it.