Rich Morrow

Retired investment industry and resource development exec. I believe in progress so by definition I'm progressive, right? I stand with Israel and the diaspora.

[RMC86 @RMC19861987]

Dr. Ian Lee with another master class on the trade war.
1⃣ Carney erred rejecting the deal for political reasons.
2⃣ If Carney doesn’t get back to the table within a few months, Canada will experience a deep recession & perhaps a depression.
3⃣ Retaliatory tariffs are dumb & hurt Canadians. Lee is convinced that Doug Ford doesn’t understand this.
4⃣ Those that are cheering on “standing up to Trump” don’t understand the price that will be paid without a deal. Lee likens our fate to that of Argentina.
5⃣ Interprovincial trade barriers cause more harm than tariffs. “More Trumpian than Trump.” Lee believes Carney should threaten to withhold equalization payments to force the premiers to remove them.
6⃣ The on-going trade war & the interprovincial trade barriers are an “economic suicide pact.” Carney must solve both within the next few months. Credit: @AllanSmallGTA

[L. Wayne Mathison @WayneMathison]

That’s exactly how I see Carney’s politics: identify a threat, magnify the fear around it, then present government as the indispensable protector.

Fear is politically powerful because frightened people ask fewer questions about cost, competence and results. They accept more spending, more regulation and more state control if they believe the alternative is catastrophe.

The antidote is simple: stop judging politicians by the enemies they describe and start judging them by outcomes. Is Canada becoming more productive, prosperous, affordable and secure? If not, the sales pitch doesn’t matter.

[Pierre Poilievre @PierrePoilievre]

The regime in Tehran is a direct threat to our people, particularly Jewish and Persian Canadians. This Liberal government has failed to protect them.

Every regime operative willingly helping this terrorist cause must be tracked down and deported to secure our country from terror and violence: https://t.co/4Pl81Bq6pZ

[wealthmoose @wealthmoose]

🇺🇸 LUTNICK JUST DROPPED A BOMBSHELL.

He says he asked Canada’s trade team directly:

“Are you trying to kill the deal?”

Their answer?

“We’re not allowed to say.”

Then Lutnick went even further:

“The Liberals are selling their citizens down the river.”

If that account is accurate, this wasn’t just a failed negotiation.

It raises a much uglier question:

Did Canada walk away on purpose?

[Rich Morrow @ricmor2100]

@retiredgeo0416 @TerryGlavin Coercion doesn’t even enter the conversation - it’s collusion.

[Kate Harrison @KatlynHarrison]

@TerryGlavin raises some critical points here that are not getting enough attention at the moment.

When our government says "America/ Americans have changed", it has the insidious effect of giving licence to pursue relationships with actors we should be skeptical of - particularly China.

Trump is a moment that we must wade through. But let's not let frustration and the moment permanently reorient our commitment to Western principles, virtues and excellence. There is more at stake than most realize. #cdnpoli

[Pierre Poilievre @PierrePoilievre]

The head of Mark Carney’s Investment Agency suddenly resigns days before hosting a supposedly massive Investment Summit.

Carney installs the very powerbroker whose company broke rules to take $200 million in taxpayers money and “supercharged” the opioid crisis that killed 50,000 Canadians.

The guy was the architect of the Century Initiative, which pushed for mass immigration that drove wages down, rent up, and corporate profits through the roof.

When will the media ask some serious questions about what the hell is going on here?

[US Copper Corp @US_copper]

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[Pierre Poilievre @PierrePoilievre]

Carney has appointed the ultimate Liberal powerbroker to head up the government’s corporate welfare agency.

Dominic Barton is the man who ran McKinsey while the firm profited from helping Purdue Pharma “supercharge” the opioid crisis; who chaired Trudeau's economic advisory council while McKinsey's federal contracts exploded thirty-fold to over $200m, contracts the Auditor General later found broke the rules. Now he will help insiders get billions in handouts, bailouts, and carve outs, paid for by you.

And he was the man at McKinsey who cozied up to the Communist government in Beijing, even working with state-owned companies that violated international law and he refused to condemn the Uyghur genocide.

The Liberal Club gets rich making everyone else poor.

[Great Canadian Moose @Great_Cdn_Moose]

The Canadian government facts revealed in this small animation film will blow your mind and open your eyes…
Check it out. It’s a good Watch…
pass it on!

[Chris Ryan @Watchdog_MP]

🚨 CBSA JUST CONFIRMED IT

Canadian plywood producers warned for months: China is dumping cheap, subsidized plywood into Canada.

Ottawa’s response? “America’s tariffs are unfair.”

Then their own agency dropped the findings:
• Dumped? Yes.
• Subsidized? Yes.
• Temporary duties now in effect, up to 227.5% on many Chinese exporters.

This is the second investigation. Canadian mills were already losing sales and jobs.

When your own border agency says the industry was right and China was cheating, maybe stop lecturing the Americans.

Protect Canadian workers first.
#cdnpoli #CanadaFirst

[Rich Morrow @ricmor2100]

@FoodProfessor I attended a "move south" business conference. Most Canadians have no idea how compelling the message is. Every major US city or region has a team ready to advise and assist on re-locating next to your largest customer. The underlying message "thrive here or shrivel there"

[Rich Morrow @ricmor2100]

Good line from Micheal Higgins - Carney is less Churchill and more Shakespeare - as he makes this shit up: https://t.co/Gw3AveqOLO

[RMC86 @RMC19861987]

💿 The greatest hits of international trade lawyer Mark Warner @MAAWLAW who has spoken truth to power for months on the 🇨🇦-🇺🇸trade war.
1⃣ The issues are long-standing & predate Trump. 🇨🇦 is not innocent.
2⃣ The 🇺🇸 is deadly serious about 🇨🇳 transshipment.
3⃣ The 🇺🇸 doesn’t believe 🇨🇦 has leverage.
4⃣ Both sides negotiate to benefit suppliers, not consumers. The argument that 🇺🇸 tariffs hurt 🇺🇸 consumers is moot.
5⃣ The midterm results won’t change Trump’s trade strategy.
6⃣ Retaliation has never worked for 🇨🇦. It was nearly a disaster in the original negotiations.
7⃣ Holding out for tariff-free access is crazy.
8⃣ The s338 tariffs have been applied to goods that were previously USMCA exempt. This could be expanded.
9⃣ To date, the tariffs have not inflicted widespread pain. The s338 & 🇨🇦 counter-tariffs will. We're about to find out what 🇨🇦 really believe about retaliating. Thx @cbcwatcher

[Joanne_Marcotte @Joanne_Marcotte]

Est-ce que Carney et ses négociateurs auraient proposé le libre-échange avec les E-U?

Édito du @nationalpost:

« Mardi, le New York Times a rapporté que cette idée ne venait même pas des Américains, mais d'Ottawa. « Les négociateurs canadiens ont entamé les pourparlers suggérant que l'objectif ultime devrait être de créer une « forteresse Amérique du Nord ». » Et à l'intérieur de cette soi-disant forteresse, a poursuivi le Times, il y aurait « des tarifs ultra-bas ou inexistants à l'intérieur de ses murs, à savoir entre le Canada et les États-Unis, et des tarifs alignés pour les étrangers ».

« Sur la base de ce qui peut être glané de ces explications partielles et des fuites anonymes aux médias, le gouvernement Carney et l'administration Trump sont alignés sur la coordination des politiques commerciales avec des tiers, du moins en ce qui concerne certains secteurs de certains pays.

La différence est que le Canada s'attendait à ce qu'en échange de la contrepartie des tarifs américains sur d'autres, il y ait zéro ou presque zéro tarif sur toutes les marchandises qui font des allers-retours. Les Américains ont aimé la concession, mais voulaient garder des tarifs durs, bien qu'un peu plus bas, sur les voitures et l'acier. »

Moi: Alors que ceci se discutait, Carney parcourt le monde en proclamant que la rupture avec les États-Unis est définitive… Il est temps que Carney s’explique. Devant le Parlement!

https://t.co/sAkFqA0cz0

[Stephen Taylor @stephen_taylor]

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith: The new American tariffs will affect $1.5B of Alberta goods. The new Canadian counter-tariffs will affect $4.8B of our economy.

Our businesses will be more harmed by Canadian counter-tariffs than are going to be by the American tariffs.

[Rich Morrow @ricmor2100]

@RealAndyLeeShow ...and Venezuelan heavy crude is a close substitute to the Canadian thick stuff. The Gulf refiners probably don't even need to re-tool.

[Rich Morrow @ricmor2100]

@rideNreel @cbcwatcher Hard to defend the record when what is there in black and white is startling, unremitting, flat-assed, stark incompetence. Same overreach of ignorance and hubris she applied at Reuters.

[Melanie In Saskatchewan @saskatchewan_in]

I’m supposed to perform the obligatory little ritual now and pretend both versions of this trade debacle deserve equal credibility.

I don’t... I believe the Americans.

Not because they’re American. Not because politicians suddenly became trustworthy. And certainly not because Donald Trump has been canonized.

I believe them because the American account increasingly makes more sense.

Greer, Lutnick and Bessent have spoken openly and specifically about what happened. Their accounts have been remarkably consistent. They can discuss the negotiations like people who were actually involved in them, without appearing terrified that an unsupervised adjective might escape and without a teleprompter.

Meanwhile, what do Canadians get from our own government?

Carefully sterilized language. Vague explanations. Missing specifics. Scripted talking points. Every sentence apparently passed through enough communications people and lawyers to remove any detectable trace of information.

We’re being kept in the dark like bloody mushrooms while learning more about Canada’s own trade negotiations from American officials and American media than from the Canadian government supposedly representing us.

And somehow we’re not supposed to notice how politically convenient the Canadian version is.

We got:
👉🏻 Trump was unreasonable.
👉🏻 Trump changed the deal.
👉🏻 Trump threatened our sovereignty.
👉🏻 Trump forced Canada to walk away.

Trump. Trump. Trump.

Just keep Canadians sufficiently pissed off at Donald Trump and perhaps nobody asks the considerably more inconvenient question:

❓️ What exactly did Mark Carney walk away from, and why?

Because after the Gordie Howe Bridge fiasco, I’m fresh out of complimentary benefit of the doubt.

And here’s the part that absolutely reeks, discrediting any appearance of truth told by the liar in chief #MarkCarney...

If Carney possesses documentary evidence proving Trump suddenly dumped outrageous, unacceptable demands onto Canada at the eleventh hour, where the hell is it?

Seriously.

Think about what that evidence would be worth politically.

IF Carney had a piece of paper proving Donald Trump screwed Canada, blindsided our negotiators and forced our heroic prime minister to stand up, pound the table and walk away, the Liberal machine wouldn’t quietly tuck that document into a filing cabinet.

Are you kidding me?

▪︎ They’d wallpaper Ottawa with the damn thing.

▪︎ They’d hold press conferences about it.

▪︎ They’d wave it around in Parliament.

▪︎ They’d quote it in fundraising emails.

▪︎ They’d buy ads with it.

Every friendly pundit in the country would have a laminated copy by breakfast. CBC would probably commission a twelve-part documentary and an interpretive dance.

It would be political rocket fuel.
Carney could point directly at the evidence and say, See? I stood up to Trump.

And considering how desperately this government wants Canadians angry at Trump, they would squeeze every last political drop out of it.

Instead, we get:

- Words.
- Trust us.
- Trump did it.
- Don't worry about the details.
- Just keep your elbows up and direct your anger toward the orange man south of the border.

How extraordinarily convenient.

And while Canada spends years shrieking about foreign interference, demanding security clearances for opposition leaders and warning us about other countries trying to influence Canadian politics, Canadian politicians seem remarkably comfortable inserting themselves into American partisan politics.

Apparently foreign political influence is a mortal threat to democracy when it crosses the border heading north.

Heading south?
Nothing to see here, carry on.
So enough of the carefully packaged Liberal bullshit.

Release the negotiating documents.

• Show Canadians the American demands.
• Show us Canada's demands.
• Show us what changed.
• Show us when it changed.
• Show us exactly what was sitting on that table when Canada walked away.

Because if those documents prove Carney's story, his government has every political incentive imaginable to release them, and its quite odd that they haven't.

Their continued absence doesn't prove he's lying, but it sure does suggest it!

And considering the Americans are providing details while our own government feeds us verbal oatmeal, it sure as hell gives Canadians a reason to stop swallowing everything we're spoon-fed.

Mark Carney isn't an oracle. He isn't our father. And Canadians aren't intellectually deficient children who need the PMO to decide which facts we're mature enough to see.

Stop telling us whom to hate.
Show us what happened.
Then we'll decide for ourselves who is full of shit.

#cdnpoli

[Rich Morrow @ricmor2100]

@HansMahncke Good analogy. And this supreme assurance that what happens to be best for him defines the “public good “,