Carney/Canada is going to get hosed.

Carney told Canadians to judge him by the prices on grocery-store shelves.

In June, grocery prices were still 3.9% higher than a year earlier, outpacing overall inflation for the 17th straight month. Beef was up 13.8%.

Now Canada faces another tariff deadline while Carney… https://t.co/wHRfOXvk3i

— L. Wayne Mathison (@WayneMathison) August 4, 2026

Canada just lost another major industry.

HF Sinclair has announced that it will shut down base oil production in Mississauga by 2027.

Are Liberal supporters still convinced that Mark Carney is fighting for Canada?#Canada pic.twitter.com/QVIe7qOdOd

— Anna (@Annans4g) August 3, 2026

We can’t ignore the Northern border.

Canada turns a blind eye as terrorists, fentanyl, and illicit tobacco products flow into our shared northern border, endangering American national security.@POTUS is rightfully renegotiating USMCA and holding Canada responsible for their… https://t.co/hXvDFdjlBs

— Tricia McLaughlin (@TriciaOhio) August 5, 2026

Wow.

What are illicit tobacco products?

Tobacco that avoids taxes. Remember the "I can't breathe" guy in NYC selling illicit tobacco.

More than 4.3M illegal cigarettes seized by New Brunswick peace officers

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Officers stopped a truck towing a cargo trailer and arrested a 32-year-old man from Ontario. The government said they found 3,510,000 unstamped cigarettes, which they seized. A 2022 GMC Sierra 2500 truck and an enclosed cargo trailer were also seized.

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"When you buy illegal (illicit) cigarettes, you may also be supporting organized criminal networks who are trying to establish themselves in your community. Working together with our law enforcement partners is important to discouraging this and other illegal activity in our province."

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Oh, they thought you said illegal cigarettes,
not illegal aliens.

I have friends and relatives in Canada and I am pro-Canada, and although I disagree with your position on Canada and Carney, some of the weekly stuff you post is credible and very interesting. I appreciate you doing that effort and keeping the thread going.

However, if you want more of the Canada information you post to be taken seriously, it would be wise to use credible sources instead of the obvious shills and known corrupt liars like Tricia McLaughlin.

McLaughlin used to be the chief spokesperson and head of communications at DHS in this Trump 2.0 admin. Like her ex-boss Noem, she's dishonest, corrupt, and a proven documented serial liar. One of the many examples of her malfeasance: the wastrful and corrupt DHS $200M+ ad campaign. At DHS, she and Noem approved it. The advertising firm McLaughlin's husband heads as CEO received over $200 million for the DHS advertising campaign. This was blatant corruption, self-dealing, and imo it was the same as de facto stealing of taxpayer dollars. FCC documents named McLaughlin as the decision maker for the $220 million in government contracts for the ad campaign. She got caught and was forced to resign in disgrace. Just like Noem.

Thx, I didn't really follow that closely, though fwiw the DHS general counsel later said nothing unethical happened (if I had to guess the sums implied in some headlines were overblown, as with her involvement directing the awards).

I try to stick with credible folks but sometimes the social media spotlight includes some that are less so. In any case, she and Breanna here I think are on point regarding the border with Canada. Money laundering and the drug trade continue to be a big issue Carney isn't addressing, especially in the 'tribal' portions on their side.

I think it's implausible at this point that an agreement is reached relative to USMCA and tariffs in the next 16 or so days, so Trump will either flinch and extend the deadline, or Canada is going to suffer an economic earthquake. It will be interesting to see which way it goes, I can't make an honest prediction.

50% tariffs still looking almost inevitable on the 19th this month.

This is 100% on Mark Carney and the Liberals.
Not the world. Not global forces. Not Trump acting alone.
Carney chose Europe first. He spent months talking up EU alignment while the U.S. relationship — the one that actually feeds Canadian jobs — was left to rot. He took every…

— Nana0000 (@Nana00018487212) August 14, 2026

Interesting read with Canada a major player in assisting China with tariff avoidance. Kind of explains why China and Canada were the only countries that implemented counter tariffs, no?https://t.co/hI09kz9Noa

— laurence (@laurence186) August 13, 2026

Canadian leadership are absolutely rock stupid, imho.

Hold up, bro. This was stated on another thread yesterday:

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Carney is an absolute economic genius and he is whooping our butt. Canada lucked into an incredible leader at the perfect time.

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I have friends and relatives in Canada and I am pro-Canada, and although I disagree with your position on Canada and Carney, some of the weekly stuff you post is credible and very interesting. I appreciate you doing that effort and keeping the thread going.

However, if you want more of the Canada information you post to be taken seriously, it would be wise to use credible sources instead of the obvious shills and known corrupt liars like Tricia McLaughlin.

McLaughlin used to be the chief spokesperson and head of communications at DHS in this Trump 2.0 admin. Like her ex-boss Noem, she's dishonest, corrupt, and a proven documented serial liar. One of the many examples of her malfeasance: the wastrful and corrupt DHS $200M+ ad campaign. At DHS, she and Noem approved it. The advertising firm McLaughlin's husband heads as CEO received over $200 million for the DHS advertising campaign. This was blatant corruption, self-dealing, and imo it was the same as de facto stealing of taxpayer dollars. FCC documents named McLaughlin as the decision maker for the $220 million in government contracts for the ad campaign. She got caught and was forced to resign in disgrace. Just like Noem.

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Thank you for regurgitating Wikipedia...

It's almost pitiable.

Here is the hard truth: there is 0% of a reason that Canadians should not have as high if not higher standard of living than the citizens of the U.S.A.

Indeed, at the end of the last century, Canada had a higher per-capita GDP.

There is a precidence to this: a bit over a… https://t.co/Lv5tWBz8ia pic.twitter.com/uhre6zkA2B

— cdrsalamander (@cdrsalamander) August 15, 2026

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Although correct, this graph is somewhat deceiving.

The truth is - the US has dramatically outperformed almost all of it's major western developed-country peers by a similar margin since 2014-15. i.e. Germany, Australia, UK, France, etc. Canada is not unique.

Canada has performed uniquely poorly however.

Here is a chart showing economic growth since Mark Carney became Prime Minister in Q1 of 2025.

It is the worst.

Worse than Australia, the U.K., the G7, the EU, the U.S.

Worse than Mexico, which also shares a border and a trade dispute with the U.S.

Mark Carney promised to be… pic.twitter.com/UWx2h1084z

— Pierre Poilievre (@PierrePoilievre) August 13, 2026

Largely because of their leftist Labour policies that lead to economic situations such as below:

To qualify for a mortgage to buy a home in Canada, the minimum household income is now $175,317. Now keep in mind you will have to pay 38% tax, and every dollar you earn above that the Provincial and Federal government considers you ultra rich and is taxed at 48%. So mortgage,… https://t.co/9zwH1Tl45c

— Martin Pelletier (@MPelletierCIO) August 15, 2026

Exactly what DSA Democrats in the US salivate about being able to do to Americans.

It's frankly incredible that Canada has become such a failure in the western world sharing a border with us. They should at least be somewhat close to us due to sheer proximity.

They had to work at it. Which they did.

Carney just put Evan Siddall in charge of “Build Canada Homes.”

This is the same guy who said home ownership is “regressive.”

The same guy who, as $459,000-a-year CMHC CEO, funded research into a home equity tax — until Blacklock’s exposed it and he had to kill it.

Now he’s… pic.twitter.com/sHoMXh9Zvi

— JayGen 𝕏 er🇨🇦 (@JayGenXer) August 15, 2026

Already there! The 2028 election will have 1.8 million new immigrants becoming citizens. The liberals have planned this well. Massive immigration 5 years before an election allows them sufficient time to become voting citizens. Liberals cared less about the housing, crime, or…

— Murray Lozon 🇨🇦 (@mlozon3) August 15, 2026

When you import 5+ million 3rd worlders into a nation of 35 million, the ramifications happen...pretty quickly. But hey, they vote left just like they do here, so their Liberal Party consider it a sacrifice that was/is worth it. When open borders socialism starts failing economically, the answer is more socialism.

'Canada battles the clock.'

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Trump has justified the tariffs as a response to what he deems Ottawa's discriminatory treatment of US automobiles, dairy products and alcoholic drinks.

While Trump has aimed a slew of punitive trade measures at Canada since reentering the White House, the latest tariffs invoked under the first-ever application of Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930 are notable for applying to goods that qualify for duty-free treatment under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement.

Despite Trump's tariffs on sectors such as autos and steel, exemptions in the three-way deal, which was ratified during the first Trump administration, have allowed an estimated 85 percent of US-Canadian trade to remain tariff-free.

"These latest tariffs, if implemented, will hurt small, medium and large-sized businesses, and self-employed people right across the country, from growers of flower bulbs and beekeepers to makers of hockey equipment, to the cement industry to dairy and wine," says Julian Karaguesian, a lecturer and trade expert at McGill University in Montreal.

"Tariffs of 50 percent would effectively price hundreds of Canadian goods out of the US market."
While talks between Canadian and US officials on a potential trade deal are taking place behind closed doors, it is no secret that the negotiations have been fraught.

On Monday, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, who has said he expects to speak to Trump before the Wednesday deadline, described the negotiations as "delicate" and "intense".

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Too little, too late.

I can predict with 100% certainty how CBC coverage will unfold this week: pic.twitter.com/WaLKn5ddpm

— David Portier (@davidportier) August 17, 2026

Update; 3 day pause for 'deal' says Trump, involving some sort of re-start on the Keystone XL pipeline.

Ninety minutes. That's how much time was left before 50% tariffs hit Canadian goods when Trump posted that he was pausing them — for three days.

Read that again. Not thirty days. Not until a signing ceremony. Three days, "subject to the finalization of documents," announced at…

— WORLD COMPASS (@world_compass_) August 19, 2026

🇺🇸🇨🇦 The revived Keystone system and Bridger Pipeline Expansion create a major new corridor for Canadian crude into the U.S. network and existing U.S. ports.

South Bow’s Prairie Connector uses ~150 km of idle Keystone XL pipe from Hardisty, Alberta, to the Montana border. It has… https://t.co/EskLdKjbmb pic.twitter.com/HNP79gSnoE

— John Nelson (@WIgeopolitical) August 19, 2026

A little disappointing, tbf. But I'm sure this will be celebrated on the gas prices thread.

I fully expect this deal to get made and then the next Dem potus immediately kills Keystone again and it won't get finished. All for naught.

Yes, pulling in CA crude to our refineries is a good thing.
Should have happened in Trumps 1st 3 months though.