Summary
Mark Carney, frontrunner for Canadian Liberal Party leadership and potential prime minister, stated Canada will stand up to a bully after Trump imposed 25% tariffs on Canadian imports.
Carney vowed to retaliate by matching the US tariffs dollar for dollar, asserting Canada would not cave in despite mounting pressure.
He criticized Trump for undermining trade agreements, warning that the tariffs would damage the US global reputation and economic stability.
Outgoing Prime Minister Trudeau promised a forceful, immediate response, emphasizing unity as Canada defends its economic interests, ensuring national prosperity.
I don’t know a single person who isn’t for a harsh retaliation. I haven’t felt this united with my fellow Canadians ever.
Smith isn’t, and, as an Albertan, it’s goddamn embarassing. Nothing authoritarians like more than a bigger authoritarian.
Ford is also an authoritarian, though, and he’s putting up a fight. Or at least he says he’s going to put up a fight. I’m worried that he’s just making a show of things so that he can roll over after the election’s over and we can’t get rid of him.
Probably has more to do with her being in the pocket of the oil industry.
And Scott Moe in Saskatchewan.
Honestly, all of this “51st state” bullshit has been a gift to Canada. For far too long the leaders on the right have been appealing to Canadian MAGA by emulating and praising everything Trump and his ilk do, and now they’re being forced to either turn on Trump or turn on Canada. In something like a week he’s shattered the alliance between the American right and the Canadian right, and left them absolutely spinning in the wind, searching for some sense of identity.
A smarter version of Trump would have kept his mouth shut until Pollievre was in, and then started to lean on him through back channels for consessions, just like Bush did with Harper. That filthy traitor would gladly give Trump everything he wants without a fight. But for Trump it’s about the fight; slapping tariffs on other countries makes his tiny dick feel a little less tiny.
All of these guys are stupid really. It would’ve made sense for Pollievre to not push for no confidence and just wait until October where he’d be up against Trudeau and probably win. But he got his way and Trudeau resigned. Now is he going to force an election in the winter where he’s running against a stronger candidate? Last election the Liberals took a big hit in the polls from calling an unscheduled election. How many points will Pollievre lose if he makes a winter election happen?
Pollievre went all-in on US style politics and it’s wearing thin. Running endless ads outside of a campaign has made people sick and tired of him. When his US brethren tank the economy people might question whether being “anti-woke” is sound economic policy.
It’s still his election to lose, but it seems he’s doing everything possible to make that happen.
His other big problem is that he’s just not very likeable. People hate Trudeau, so they were willing to side with anyone who would get him out. But with Trudeau gone voters are now faced with the fact that they really don’t much like Pollievre either.
Yeah if you meet JT he’s just another confident politician in public and seems a bit shallow and kinda cringe, so whatever.
But everybody hates Skippy, the person. He’s a dick IRL and emptier than his résumé. The PP parade will just hold their noses and march anyway.
But, they don’t like Freeland either. And Jagmeet Singh has proven to be pretty useless.
It’s still really likely that the conservatives would win in a landslide. But, at least now their rhetoric has to switch from copying the US to opposing the US.
That likelihood has dropped a lot. Liberals are seeing a significant uptick in recent polls, and Carney has a very positive approval rating (+13 was the latest number I saw). He’s a strong favourite to win the position, and he polls very well in hypothetical matchups against Pollievre right now.
The latest polls still show a blowout victory for the Conservatives:
https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/poll-tracker/canada/
I don’t think it’s at all likely that the Liberals could win another majority, even another minority. That sucks because the conservatives always wreck stuff when they win. But there’s this determined “things are bad, vote the current party out” mentality right now.
Other than getting us pharmacare and dental added to our health care, sure.
Pharmacare? Has it arrived? Or is it something they’re still working on? As for dental added to healthcare, are you sure? Or was it just added for people with low-income?
When your main identity is nationalism it just doesn’t make sense to work together with any foreign leader.
As if the Australian ScoMo wasn’t bad enough, now there’s two of them…
“This is getting out of hand!”
Heard an old bitch (Alberta) complaining yesterday in my store about something Joe Biden did.
There are plenty of people in the US cheering for harsh retaliation, too. Despite being directly harmed by it.
This man is going out of his way to hurt everyone he can regardless, and everyone who can do anything here is just sitting down, shutting up, and obeying in advance.
I am glad that other countries are ready and willing to to hit this bully back. Seems like the best hope we have is from people on the outside.
I’m in the US. Fucking make it hurt. Maybe it’ll make the shitstains finally learn, or at least kill off enough that this shit won’t be a worry in the near figure.
Is it gonna suck for me? Yup. But it is anyways, so instead of the frog in the pot lets flambe this shit.
I’m cheering for harsh retaliation because it’s the only language the orange man will understand. If the economy has to collapse for us to have any chance of getting Americans to ditch their support of fascism, well we’ve already fucked up a million times to get this far so we’ll have to struggle through it.
This may have unexpected consequences.