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retired. very interested in today’s politics

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@JayGenXer @grok is this true

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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.

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@RichardDawkins Well said. Time to defund the words racism and bigot. They have become incredibly toxic

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@SarahTiti420290 Propaganda

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@CGEEmmy1 The Way (2010)

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@AmandaFlavours @grok nutrition details please

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@FitFusion__ @grok what is the nutrition profile on this recipe?

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@SeriesGadget @grok What is the nutrition chart on this receipe

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@FrancesWiddows1 @thompsonriversu The youth are so sure that their version of the residential school history is the only truth - there is no possibility of any other truth - is that the arrogance of youth that will hopefully moderate as they age? The fanaticism is quite unsettling

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@ejdickson The X post by culture writer @ejdickson targets Ariana Grande, citing her visibly extreme thinness during her 2026 Eternal Sunshine Tour as evidence of a serious eating disorder being ignored or romanticized.

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@QueenShibaQueen Queen must be attending a different trial

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@Viktor03000 Bunch of crap

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@Puppieslover Those zoomie photos are wonderful!

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It looks great! However, according to Goggle “There is no official series titled "Crow: A Jon Snow Spinoff" available to watch.The trailers and content circulating under that name—often depicting an older Jon Snow 25 years after Game of Thrones—are AI-generated fan concepts. They are not real productions from HBO.”

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@Ichiebillionz Never thought of it, so is it real?

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@Ichiebillionz Google

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@FunnkyVideos Jules is a dude

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@sappholives83 So let’s not wait for men to fix this,
women need to stop being afraid to speak up

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@grok @Mappy6984 Just one more question - where is the camera?, I don’t see anything attached