🇨🇦 76% of Canada’s exports go to one country.
Not two. Not five. One.🇺🇸
📊 16.8% of our entire GDP depends on a single trade deal. 2.6 million jobs exist because America buys our stuff.
When CUSMA came under pressure in 2025 — with the deal still in place — exports fell 26% in a single quarter.
Manufacturing lost 51,800 jobs. Construction spending collapsed by a quarter.
⚠️ That was with the deal intact.
The July 2026 review is weeks away.
Canada wasn’t even in the room when the US rewrote the auto rules in Mexico City. Japanese, European, and Korean cars now get better tariff treatment than vehicles built in Ontario.
Ottawa’s response? Diversification.
📉 Non-US export growth in 2025 was mostly gold prices. Not new markets. Not new partners. Not new leverage. Gold went up. We called it a strategy.
🛢️ Alberta depends on US trade for 34% of its economy. New Brunswick: 33%. Saskatchewan: 25%.
This isn’t Bay Street’s problem. Every province bleeds if this breaks.
Canada doesn’t have a Plan B.
We have a deal, a deadline, and a neighbour who knows exactly how desperate we are.
That’s not a trade partnership. That’s a hostage situation with paperwork. 🔒
#Canada
This Boomer absolutely nails it!!
Carney stands in front of a mountain of apples and declares: “We are an agricultural superpower.”
The only correct response? “No shit.”
Grocery prices are up nearly 35% since 2019. The average Canadian family is now forced to spend **$10,000 a year** — **$800 a month** — just to eat. Food bank visits have hit record highs. Mortgage defaults are surging. Jobs are disappearing. And we’re in a technical recession.
His big solution? Another **$3 BILLION** of your money on a shiny new “food security strategy.”
This is the same guy who can drop more on one plate of caviar during a single flight than most working families spend on groceries in weeks.
11+ years of the exact same empty Liberal speeches. The exact same word salads. The exact same “we’re building, we’re creating, we’re here for you” bullshit — and Canadians have never been more broke, more anxious, or more fed up.
They don’t have a plan.
They have a grift.
And they’re still asking you to pay for it.
#CarneyFail #FoodPrices #CostOfLiving #cdnpoli #CanadaFirst
🇺🇦🧐News from the front suggests that the land corridor may be cut.
We believe in the Armed Forces of Ukraine 🇺🇦
P.S. If that happens, it will already be too late for Putin to announce mobilization.
🇨🇦 Canada can’t “pivot away” from the U.S. 🇺🇸
~76% of exports.
Integrated capital.
Shared security.
Unavoidable geography.
This isn’t ideology.
It’s structure.
🇨🇦 Canada Cannot Ignore the United States ..and Never Could
Every few years, Canada rediscovers the idea that it should “diversify away” from the United States.
The argument usually resurfaces when politics in Washington become uncomfortable or when global trade narratives shift toward Asia. The premise sounds prudent. The reality is far less flexible.
Canada’s economic relationship with the U.S. is not a preference. It is a structural condition.
Roughly three-quarters of Canada’s exports go to the United States. Most of Canada’s foreign direct investment comes from U.S. firms. Our supply chains — energy, autos, agriculture, manufacturing — are integrated across the border to a degree few countries experience. More than 85% of Canadians live within 100 miles of the U.S. border, not by accident but because economic gravity pulls settlement toward opportunity.
These are not policy choices that can be revised every election cycle. They are outcomes of geography, scale, and history.
The mistake policymakers often make is confusing diversification with substitution. Expanding trade relationships is sensible. Pretending another market can replace the U.S. is not.
No other country offers Canada the same combination of:
•Market depth
•Legal transparency
•Capital mobility
•Currency stability
•Security guarantees
China is often raised as an alternative. But China’s demand is policy-driven, access is conditional, and capital rules change without notice. Europe is economically significant but fragmented, slower-growing, and less integrated with Canadian supply chains. Emerging markets are volatile and increasingly inward-looking.
None replicate the U.S. ecosystem.
The U.S.–Canada relationship also operates beyond trade statistics. It underpins Canada’s financial system, defense posture, and institutional credibility. Canadian banks clear through U.S. markets. Canadian pensions rely on U.S. assets. Canada’s security umbrella is inseparable from NATO and American military capacity.
This is why attempts to play strategic ambiguity -appearing neutral between major blocs -tend to fail. In a world of rising geopolitical rivalry, alignment becomes a condition of access. Countries that believe they can indefinitely arbitrage between systems usually discover the limits only when pressure arrives.
That does not mean Canada should surrender autonomy or avoid criticism of U.S. policy. Mature partnerships absorb disagreement. But it does mean recognizing where leverage truly lies.
Ignoring the United States does not make Canada more independent. It makes Canada more exposed.
The most successful middle powers understand this distinction. They build resilience within existing alliances rather than chasing the illusion of escape from them. They invest in competitiveness at home — productivity, infrastructure, energy capacity -instead of searching for external shortcuts.
Canada’s challenge is not overreliance on the U.S. It is underperformance within a privileged relationship.
The path forward is not to pretend geography has changed, but to operate as if it matters ..because it always has.
@laochenusa 其實不然:
Breaking: Canada adds 53,600 jobs in November.
Data tells a better story:
Part time jobs: +63,000
Full time jobs: -9,400
Past 3 months growth rate:
Part time: 2.7% (+103k)
Full time:0.5% (+78k)