Ashley Borreson

Mount Royal University nursing student.

[Kevin Gaughen 🇺🇸 @gaughen]

Ok, so, a short recap of what’s happened:

Farmers need potash as fertilizer. Potash is necessary to grow food and feed the world.

Yet Trump started a completely pointless war in Iran which choked off the Strait of Hormuz. This limits the world supply of potash, as million of tons of it come from Jordan and must travel through the Strait.

Ok, no problem. Our friendly neighbors to the north of us just happen to be the world’s #1 exporter of potash. We’ll just buy from them!

Oh wait, Trump completely wrecked our friendship with Canada for literally no reason by slapping them with egregious tariffs and insulting them by calling them the 51st state.

Well, darn. Ok, then we’ll make a deal with the #4 exporter of potash, Belarus. Belarus is a dictatorship and one of Putin’s satellite states. So, by buying from Belarus, we are indirectly helping Putin fund his war in Ukraine. Not good, but we need to eat.

Oh wait, all of Belarus’ potash has already been spoken for. There’s none for us to buy.

The USA is going to be in deep crap next growing season, and it’s not the kind of crap that can fertilize a field. There WILL be food shortages. Americans WILL go hungry.

That’s the art of the deal, baby!

[Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @jkenney]

1) Saskatchewan has the world’s largest potash deposits, producing twice as much potash as Belarus. 85% of US potash imports come from Saskatchewan, efficiently and reliably shipped by rail.

2) Belarus is a brutal dictatorship and puppet state for Vladimir Putin under international (including American) sanctions for gross human rights abuses.

3) Belarusian potash production has been fully contracted to Asian buyers (eg China and India) since the imposition of western sanctions. Belarusian dictator Lukashenko has already said "Even if we wanted to supply somewhere else, Western markets, we just don't have those volumes, everything has been contracted."

4) The US Government does not buy potash. US fertilizer companies and ag producers do. Those private sector buyers have consistently demonstrated their preference for Canadian potash.

5) President Trump tariffed Canadian potash early in 2025, then backed off days later following loud protests from American ag producers and their Congressional representatives.

[Ashley Borreson @borreson2]

@_Cooperators CHANGE YOUR INHUMANE WAIT TIMES FOR YOUR AUTO POLICY INTAKE. 20 hours total on hold with no one answering. How can you say you’re still taking auto policy holders? Now we’re trapped into a home policy with you guys and unable to get auto!!!!!!!!!!!

[Ashley Borreson @borreson2]

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[Made In Canada @MadelnCanada]

I just wish someone would look at me the way Trudeau looks at Obama...