Lee521

I am a marketing professional living in Canada. Views are my own.

[Josh Dehaas @JoshDehaas]

The PM just thanked Canadians for choosing to vacation in Canada, days after he got back from Italy. Reminds me of COVID when there were two sets of rules. It’s so symbolic. There are certain people in this country who always demand sacrifices they would never make themselves.

[Joshua Slykhuis @SlykhuisJoshua]

@AnitaAnandMP Still no statements about the genocide of Christian’s in Nigeria?

[Jay Kowal 🇨🇦🇮🇱🇺🇸 @jaycola]

@AnitaAnandMP @AnitaAnandMP is the biggest threat to companies reputation for simply doing business. The world is embracing wider trade with Israel while Canada demonized the globe's lone Jewish state

[Michael Sherkin @MSherkin]

@AnitaAnandMP But it’s still legal to send money to Hamas, right?

[Danielle Lieberman @delieberman]

@AnitaAnandMP You are trying to get Jews killed and ruin their businesses. You'd better give up all your tech, many vaccines, cherry tomatoes, and a whole lot more if you are so against Israel.

[gabedraws @gabedrawsX]

@AnitaAnandMP @shmr50 WTF is happening to Canada?? @JesseBrown

[NullCast 🇨🇦 @nullcast357]

@AnitaAnandMP Turkey is occupying Syria, Morocco is occupying West Sahara and there are currently 150 active land disputes worldwide yet, Canada under the Liberals keeps picking on the tiny Jewish state which is obviously "occupying" too much land
https://t.co/AZuvO6EASX

[James E. Thorne @DrJStrategy]

Canada’s Trade-War Denial

Canada does not need “time to adjust.” It needs a political class willing to stop confusing indignation with economic policy. And it needs access to the US market.

President Trump is focused on economic sovereignty, this is not personal this is business.

I assumed Mark Carney understood that. He has spent enough time around markets and capital to know that a country cannot posture its way out of a competitiveness crisis. Yet Ottawa’s turn toward symbolism and performative retaliation suggests that faith was misplaced.

Canada does not need another era of Pierre Elliott Trudeau-style progressive theatre: moral signalling, state direction, and lofty ambition detached from the hard work of building productive capacity. It needs an adult willing to confront vested interests, make trade-offs, and put economic strength ahead of political performance. The last adult, it seems, has just left the room.

The elbows-up strategy is embarrassing and hurts Canada long term, like a teenager emotional response to the reality of the world. Carney’s use of it helps neither negotiation nor leverage, and it wounds Canada more than the U.S.

The central strategic objective is obvious: preserve access to the United States, the world’s largest and most dynamic market, Canada’s neighbour, and the foundation of its export economy. That access is not a talking point. It supports Canadian jobs, investment, supply chains, and growth.

Canada focus on China is an own goal. China cannot replace it. China is distant, strategically uncertain, and separated from Canada by geography, institutions, and infrastructure. It cannot reproduce continental integration: shared energy systems, cross-border capital, integrated factories, common standards, and decades of commercial interdependence.
Canada does not get to trade on sentiment while depending on geography.

Nor can it “win” a trade war with its largest customer. Ottawa can impose targeted costs where it has genuine leverage. It can negotiate firmly. But broad retaliation is not a strategy. It is emotional performance masquerading as economic policy.

Too many in the political and economic elite appear to believe retaliation can force the structural adjustment Canada has avoided for years. It cannot. Tariffs do not raise productivity. They do not attract investment, reduce regulatory costs, or make Canadian businesses more competitive. They raise prices for households, increase costs for manufacturers, and encourage mobile capital to locate elsewhere.
Retaliation for its own sake is an expensive expression of national frustration. Canadians pay the bill.

The deeper problem is not merely American pressure. It is Canadian failure: weak business investment, poor productivity growth, regulatory paralysis, provincial trade barriers, slow approvals, inadequate infrastructure, and a subsidy culture that protects incumbents rather than rewards builders.

Canada is rich in assets and poor in execution. It has energy, minerals, capital, skilled people, and privileged proximity to America. Yet it has made investment too slow, too risky, and too expensive.

The answer is not submission. It is reform: deregulate, accelerate approvals, remove barriers to capital and internal trade, and lower the cost of building.

Canada may need time to adjust. But first it needs to end its denial.

[John Gatti @johngatti2]

No country on earth takes longer to figure out they have a loser government and leader than Canada does.
Imagine, 10 years of Justin Trudeau !!! Now Carney.

[Lee521 @leeca521]

@kinsellawarren @nationalpost I wish we could go too. Once one of the best places for Jews to live, Carney's riding is the worst. But, that's the reason he will win. Last week a 13-year-old stabbed someone in the park. Not anti-semetic, but part of the new Canada where Mezuzah's have been taken down.

[Lee521 @leeca521]

@try2bkind @kinsellawarren @OmarAlghabra @MarkJCarney @MarcMillerVM Sadly, they have made it clear. Our PM doesn’t really care about the Jewish community at all. Why pretend? If we could all move now, we would.

[Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid]

You can't make this up: Canada's 🇨🇦 new advisor on antisemitism is himself an antisemite and a terrorism-supporter 🤯

[Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer]

UNRWA: We just fired 70 staff over terror ties.
Canada : Here's another $100 million.
https://t.co/MDKgzXDE2g

[Lee521 @leeca521]

@TriggerinLibs @kinsellawarren Bad example

[Concerned Canadian @Concern70732755]

Who agrees that Carney has taken over from Trudeau as our worst PM ??

[National Post @nationalpost]

Avi Benlolo: If only Carney treated the world's tyrants like he treats Israel https://t.co/d2xJJMYQfa

[dahlia kurtz ✡︎ דליה קורץ @DahliaKurtz]

Israel should summon Canada's Ambassador...

And force her to the watch the October 7 massacre documentary.

[Jesse Brown @JesseBrown]

The woman in this video publicly supports Hamas. The Globe and Mail for some reason omits this.

[Casey Babb @DrCaseyBabb]

You know which Canadians were treated really, really badly? The ones killed by Hamas.

[Satire Squad HQ @SatireSquadHQ]

🚨Anita Anand goes on Joe Rogan to defend Mark Carney and Canada’s ruling consultant class. 😂🇨🇦

ArriveCAN
Industrial Carbon taxes
China
Davos

“Global transitions.”

This went exactly how you’d expect.