Ralph Goodale: "Canadians are very proud that the PM is showing this high degree of leadership. He has clearly been the adult in the room. He is calm and focused and steadfast, while the Americans are flailing about. The PM simply has to keep calm and carry on."
What he’s really saying is, Trump and the Turd Reich are useless incompetent twats and we’ll wait till those useless incompetent twats are out of office.
Many Americans are very unaware of the amount of damage Trump has actually caused to their country. They think this will all go away once 2028 rolls around and someone new will be elected.
No. The people of the USA has shown the world how stupid they are, no one trusts the USA.
🇨🇦 Canada isn’t asking for capital. It’s putting the deal book on the table. 💵
Mark your calendars 🗓️
Sept 14–15 in Toronto 🇨🇦
The first Canada Investment Summit pulls together one of the largest rooms of global capital ever assembled in this country! 🙌
In attendance are pension giants, sovereign wealth funds, private equity, and CEOs who collectively manage tens of trillions!
The pitch is simple and overdue:
Canada has what the world actually needs 💪
Energy (clean and conventional), critical minerals, an educated workforce, G7-low net debt, and a government now treating nation-building projects as investable assets, not talking points.
The setup is already in motion:
• $97B in foreign investment commitments already locked
• 20+ new economic and defence partnerships
• ~$280B in public capital and incentives designed to crowd in more than $1T over five years
• Major Projects Office live, deal books from the provinces, and Canada’s own pension heavyweights (CPP + PSP) co-hosting
BlackRock, Blackstone, Barclays, IFM, Saudi PIF! The names showing up are not doing photo ops. They’re looking at pipelines, ports, power, mines, AI, and infrastructure with real offtake and real duration.
This is Canada flipping from a decade of capital flight to a decade of capital formation. If even a fraction of that room writes cheques, the next five years look very different from the last ten.
Toronto. Two days. One thesis:
🇨🇦 Canada is open for some serious Money! 🇨🇦
#Canada strong 💪
Trump's trade talks with Canada show a shift toward coercion drawn straight from Moscow's approach to its ex-Soviet neighbors. It's a failed model, writes @MarcChampion1 (via @opinion) https://t.co/LYYDMVFKgQ
Honey. Hey honey.
We have 15,430 beekeepers in Canada. We export about $60 million of honey a year, $40 million of that to the USA. That honey now has a 50% tariff and our farmers are going to have a tough time selling it.
Canada imports a lot of honey, about $73 million of it. Some of it isn’t even real honey (seriously it’s faked with rice and cane syrups eww).
Check the labels. As a country we are spending $73 million on imported honey and looking at loosing $40 million in exported honey to the USA. It’s kinda simple math. Buy Canadian honey.
Little things from many people will make a difference.
I was given my name by the Iroquois Nation many hundreds of years ago. By 1660 my name was printed on maps by the Europeans as they accepted the Native name which means Beautiful waters.
In 1867 the Canadian government decided to use my name for their providence.
Le nom du lac Ontario tire son origine du mot wendat « Ontari’io », qui signifie « le lac est beau, le lac est grand ».
Ce nom remonte à plus de 400 ans, bien avant la Confédération canadienne et la Déclaration d’indépendance des États-Unis d’Amérique.
Nous savons que les États-Unis sont en train de changer. Leurs relations commerciales, leur politique étrangère, leurs monuments nationaux, leurs hydronymes.
Les Canadiennes et les Canadiens savent aussi qu’il faut appeler les choses par leur nom, et ce lac se nomme Lac Ontario – aujourd’hui et pour toujours.
"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
Trump post yesterday morning: “WE DON’T NEED CANADA, THEY NEED US!”
Trump in a tele-rally yesterday evening: “You know, selfishly, we need aluminum in this country. We don't have it. We get it all from Canada, for the most part, and we need it badly.”
H/t @josh_wingrove
MAGA keeps saying the US “protects Canada.”
Protects us from who?
The only country that has ever invaded Canada is the United States.
Stop pretending Canada needs protection from everyone except the country that's actually a threat to us.
The New York Times, citing several sources, confirms the Canadian version of why negotiations collapsed:
- Lutnick interfering under pressure from certain US industries to maintain higher tariffs and exclude trucks
- US demanding that Canada applies any US tariffs on other countries regardless of Canada’s trade agreements with them
- US insisted that it would retain all power to change tariff policy against Canada at any time, irrespective of the agreement - hence the pencil signature comment.
https://t.co/3UpqrKnnZq