Mark Pike 🇨🇦

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[Governor Josh Shapiro @GovernorShapiro]

Since Day One, Donald Trump has chosen chaos and cruelty — and by doubling down on his reckless trade war with Canada, he’s further harming our families, farmers, and small business owners.

He’s not only hurting Pennsylvanians — who are already struggling to afford basic necessities like groceries and gas because of his war of choice in Iran — he’s destroying the relationship with one of our country’s strongest allies.

Canada is Pennsylvania’s largest trading partner. And when I visited with Prime Minister Carney earlier this year, I made clear: Pennsylvania is committed to strengthening our economic partnership with Canada.

The President should follow our lead and work to make life more affordable — instead of slapping the added costs of tariffs on Americans.

[Admiral James Stavridis, USN, Ret. @stavridisj]

Fact: Canada has a brave and professional military. It has deployed into combat with us many times, including D-Day. Canadian troops, under my NATO command, faced intense fire in Afghanistan where many were killed in action. I honor their memory and salute them. 🇨🇦 https://t.co/9kkvWXHTub

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

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

[Mark Pike 🇨🇦 @Mark_Pike]

@SNKenReid

[Mark Pike 🇨🇦 @Mark_Pike]

@jimsciutto As a Canadian taxpayer, I’m pissed about the $1.5 billion for 43 lbs of fentanyl and we will likely be back in this same position in 30 days. If nothing else, hopefully this will stem the flow of the thousands of pounds of drugs and guns coming into Canada from the US every year

[Mark Pike 🇨🇦 @Mark_Pike]

@MeidasTouch Yep. “The Art of the Deal”

[Mark Pike 🇨🇦 @Mark_Pike]

@glen_mcgregor $1.5b and counting for 43 lbs.

[60 Minutes @60Minutes]

“[Tariffs] will drive the cost of everything up. In other words, it will be paid for by American consumers. I mean, why would you want to get in a fight with your allies over this?” asks Sen. Mitch McConnell. https://t.co/sZ8KLQcijQ

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

President John F Kennedy
Address Before the Canadian Parliament in Ottawa.
May 17, 1961

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners. And necessity has made us allies. Those whom nature hath so joined together, let no man put asunder.
What unites us is far greater than what divides us. The issues and irritants that inevitably affect all neighbors are small deed in comparison with the issues that we face together--above all the somber threat now posed to the whole neighborhood of this continent--in fact, to the whole community of nations. But our alliance is born, not of fear, but of hope. It is an alliance that advances what we are for, as well as opposes what we are against.
And so it is that when we speak of our common attitudes and relationships, Canada and the United States speak in 1961 in terms of unity. We do not seek the unanimity that comes to those who water down all issues to the lowest common denominator--or to those who conceal their differences behind fixed smiles--or to those who measure unity by standards of popularity and affection, instead of trust and respect.
We are allies. This is a partnership, not an empire. We are bound to have differences and disappointments--and we are equally bound to bring them out into the open, to settle them where they can be settled, and to respect each other's views when they cannot be settled.

https://t.co/Pva9cyMpcK

[Mark Pike 🇨🇦 @Mark_Pike]

@JohnRiche Some of the best boxing in 30 years

[Mark Pike 🇨🇦 @Mark_Pike]

@ShiDavidi Analytics Dept will install a traffic light

[Mark Pike 🇨🇦 @Mark_Pike]

@SNKenReid Blue Jays Management

[Mark Pike 🇨🇦 @Mark_Pike]

The internet never fails

[Baseball Quotes @BaseballQuotes1]

Bryce Harper’s homer set to Moneyball is amazing

[Mark Pike 🇨🇦 @Mark_Pike]

Kenmount Road has been under construction for 10 years, meanwhile… #nltraffic

[HOW THINGS WORK @HowThingsWork_]

How the Dutch build a tunnel under a highway in one weekend

[Stop fuckin’ crying bro @TheOakLeafs]

The Edmonton Oilers just signed Charlie Montoyo.

[Mark Pike 🇨🇦 @Mark_Pike]

@jimackey @SunLifeCA Dr Chopper has a claim for you…

[Mark Pike 🇨🇦 @Mark_Pike]

I blame Hall & Oates

[Ben Phillips @benphillips76]

Ukrainian refugee kids arrive in Italy, and start at local schools. On their first day they enter nervously. You won’t believe what the Italian kids did next …

[Cristina Mas @cristinamas_]

Don't worry, be happy. In front of the barricades protecting now Opera House in #Odessa #Ukraine️ . @diariARA