Kory Teneycke: "Not everyone is a loser, but my God is Pierre Poilievre a loser, is the federal Conservative Party losers right now in their current incarnation. And why? Because they're listening to these fucking asshat, unemployed people, aka influencers. Good luck with that."
Mansbridge: Do you think Poilievre cares at this point about what Jivani says?
Hébert: There are MPs who are saying we can't put up with this anymore. We can't sit in a caucus that has freelancing for the pro-MAGA side so publicly and in defiance of the leader.
Chrétien: I have a message for American friends. Yes, Canada is a generous, open country, and Canadians are tolerant and kind. But never mistake our generosity for weakness.
Never, never mistake our tolerance for lack of determination. And never, never mistake our kindness for softness.
We embrace our friends and we help them in their moment of need. But we bow to no one.
The more we are insulted or threatened and abused, the more we will stand up for ourselves and stand united.
Kory Teneycke on conservative keyboard warriors: "They are absolute Taliban types in terms of their ideological perspective on things, most of which is frankly not conservative. ... I see them as a personality cult around dear leader Poilievre."
Scott Reid on people saying "don't take Trump's bait":
No, get angry.
We need to keep in mind that these are shit people and that even on the rare occasions when they might be right about something, they are fundamentally wrong about everything.
And they most certainly do not believe that we are a nation who ought to be free to make our own choices, that we are instead just a colony of people with some resources that they wish to drain dry.
Their view of us, their derision toward us is manifest in all of these communications. So don't dismiss it.
Donald Trump slapped a 50% tariff on all products coming from our friends in Canada.
So, in honor of back to school, we made a…Tariff Catcher (throwback!).
Let's see what it says.
Americans think we'll be upset if they start calling it Lake America. Have at 'er, buds. We're Canadian. We'll grab a double-double, smoke our legal weed, and carry on with our day while you deal with… whatever the hell is going on down there.🇨🇦
Rosie: Why would Canada sign a deal without even any guarantees that you would continue to respect the deal?
Jamieson Greer: Which deal is that that we haven't respected that we've signed over the past year? I'm just not familiar with that.
Who is running the Conservative party right now? And who's side is Jamil Jivani on? @MarkGerretsen raises some legitimate questions and concerns in his latest video⬇️
Carlene Variyan: "Politicians like Premier Smith or Jamil Jivani, those are people who, as a political observer, I've never seen back down from a fight. What is puzzling to me is how in this moment when we are being threatened with invasion and economic destruction by a right-wing maniac, suddenly they are the first to scramble, to wave the white flag and be pleading for peace."
The Curse of Politics discuss the CPC calling on the Liberals to release the deal:
"The only people in Canada who think that Carney fucked up those negotiations are conservatives."
"They're misreading the public mood, which is not interested in prosecuting our leader when we're at war, but rather it is interested in prosecuting Trump."
Scott Reid: "Pierre Poilievre cannot accept and live in a world where his balls are in a jar with a label that reads 'Property of Jamil Jivani.' He is going to have to take action on Jivani."
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
Absolutely shameful comments from @SecDuffy. He has never served a day. The Canadians have been allies and sent their troops to Afghanistan to fight and die by our sides. While Sean Duffy was getting drunk on reality TV Canadian service members were in the fight with us. He owes them an apology but he’s too arrogant to ever feel shame.