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Canada retaliates against US trade aggression
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/new...iffs-9.7334999Canadian businesses are opening Tuesday for the first time under the federal government's new dollar-for-dollar tariffs on $28 billion worth of U.S. imports. As many owners brace for higher costs and supply-chain issues, experts say consumers may not notice much impact.
The new levies took effect at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, hitting nearly 700 American products at rates ranging from 15 per cent to 50 per cent. Affected items range from commodities such as steel and aluminum to household goods such as toilet paper and niche products including coin-operated arcade games.
The dollar-for-dollar tariffs are the federal government's response to the 50-per-cent levies imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump's administration on Aug. 22 on hundreds of products worth more than $28 billion — from plywood and cement to wine and hockey sticks.
More trade proclamations
Proclamations on bans are here. Details are in annexes.
Booze: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Dairy: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Motor vehicles: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
btw, what's the point of this dumb trade war?
what is Trump trying to get?
trade embargoes are a big escalation from for tat tariffs
Great political messaging for Kansas
This Canadian official is simply reading some EPSTEIN CRIMES....
Committed by the pedophile in chief....
Go Canada!
non compos mentis
Canada wants to make a deal very badly just like Iran wants to make a deal very badly. I hope Canada appreciates being in the same sentence with Iran
https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/can...1778?st=ZRQRQ2Mark Carney’s Audacious Bid to Make Canada an ‘Associate Member’ of the EU
Shortly after Canada and America became embroiled in the worst bilateral trade war in their modern history, the secure phones of Europe’s top leaders lit up with a trans-Atlantic call. Mark Carney was pushing to take Canada’s relationship with the EU to the next level—a bold gambit to rewire the economic cabling of the Western alliance.
For months, the Canadian prime minister had held private conversations with almost every major European leader—from France to Italy, Germany and Scandinavia and even some of the continent’s lesser-known royals—on how to more deeply plug Canada and its 41 million people into Europe’s 27-nation club.
Now, Carney was accelerating Canada’s pivot to Europe, matchmaking a shotgun marriage to offset the pain of its divorce with America. In effect, a threat to make Canada the 51st state is pushing America’s northern neighbor so close to Europe that leaders have begun to half-in-jest dub it the EU’s newest member.
Carney has instructed his special envoy to Europe to scope out the most ambitious possibilities short of full membership in the EU or its common market, according to people familiar with the matter. The details are still being sketched by technical working groups for what the prime minister has told his aides will be the reorienting of an economy and a society that for half a century has been dominated by the U.S.
To European leaders, Carney has even suggested Canada take on a new le: “Associate Member of the European Union.” The EU, not known for its flexible enforcement of membership rules, is open to the idea, officials from both sides say. Alongside Carney’s established emissaries are informal advisers drawn from the worlds of finance and politics. Some are fellow members of a Book Club in Ottawa that he no longer has time to attend, who quip that they abide by the code of the movie “Fight Club”: “The first rule of Book Club,” several told the Journal, “is you do not talk about Book Club.”
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Canada’s pivot to Europe is a back-to-the-future moment for a country that traded more with Europe than America on the eve of World War II. Its oldest citizens grew up as British subjects, its anglophones reading English literature like John Buchan, the Scottish novelist who became Canada’s 15th governor general. French Canadians, of course, had their own particular links to Europe.
“In those days, Canadians could be on Monday, Wednesday and Friday North Americans, the other days of the week they could be part of the British network of nations and benefit from both,” said Norman Hillmer, one of the leading scholars on North American relations.
Canada emerged from the war into a new world order of global trade shaped around the economic powerhouse of America. While Britain and Europe focused on rebuilding their shattered economies and shed far-off empires, Canadian business looked south, influenced by the dynamic consumer culture and the lure of the dollar. By 1950, 65% of Canada’s exports went to America; just 15% went to the U.K.
American colleges became incubators of a new Canadian elite, whose parents had attended British universities; by the late 60s, those campuses also fostered a Vietnam-era counterculture that was skeptical of American power.
The tractor-beam of Americanization was briefly interrupted when Richard Nixon imposed 10% tariffs on all imports—to stabilize the dollar after the end of the gold standard. Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau responded by pledging to increase trade with the European common market and its newest member, the U.K. It bore little fruit, and was eclipsed entirely when his conservative successor, Brian Mulroney won the 1984 election and began working with Ronald Reagan on what would evolve into Nafta. Canadians skeptical of integrating North America’s two largest economies wore pins that read “51st state: Mulroney for Governor.”
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Ahead of the G-7 leaders meeting in Evian, France, Carney met Macron in Paris and French officials came away floored by how fast the Canadians wanted to move. “Things suddenly accelerated to full-scale cooperation on many, many policies,” said a French diplomat. Carney was by now speaking frequently with Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz, whom he knew from his time in banking, as the pair completed negotiations for Canada’s $25 billion purchase of German submarines.
In July, at the Ankara NATO summit, the leaders showcased the agreement in front of a meter-long mock-up of the submarine that German officials had flown into the Turkish capital wrapped in a protective cover that one official said resembled an Egyptian sarco us. When a photographer pointed out the model to the leaders, Carney quipped that “we didn’t notice it because of the advanced stealth characteristics” of the vessel.
After Carney’s somber press conference to explain the breakdown of U.S. talks and accuse Washington of moving the goal posts at the last minute, Merz reached out to the Canadian leader. As Trump was signing an executive order to rename Lake Ontario “Lake America,” Canadian diplomats were in Berlin for a day of meetings on defense cooperation.
“This is Canada turning from looking at itself as a North American nation to a trans-Atlantic nation,” said a senior Canadian official. “Canadians, we sound like Americans, we dress like Americans, but as a society we’re much more European.”
The two sides are talking about laying underwater cables to link Europe and Canada, and jointly constructing data centers, cloud storage and new satellite networks beyond the reach of American tech giants.
it took Trump less than 2 years to alienate the US's #2 trading partner and staunch strategic ally, possibly for good
Support For Canada Becoming A European Union Member:
��Support: 49%
⚫️Oppose: 30%
Abacus / Sept 9, 2026
https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-re...00-billion-newThe first Canada Investment Summit unleashes nearly $500 billion of new investment in Canada
Canada has what the world wants. We are a superpower in both clean and conventional energy, with vast deposits of critical minerals. We are the best-connected economy in the world, with free trade deals covering 1.5 billion consumers. We are by far the most compe ive country in the G7 for new business investment. We have one of the world’s most educated workforces, the lowest net debt-to-GDP ratio in the G7, and the fiscal capacity to act decisively. Since forming government, the Prime Minister, Mark Carney, has focused on leveraging these strengths to catalyse $1 trillion of new investment and create more growth, opportunity, and prosperity for Canadians.
To that end, the Prime Minister convened the first Canada Investment Summit. Hosted in partnership with the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments) and the Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments), the Summit brought together investors from nearly 30 countries, managing more than $100 trillion in assets. They came to Toronto because they see Canada’s economic strength and ambition – and they want to invest in it.
The Canada Investment Summit laid the foundation for enormous new investment and strategic partnerships, while accelerating existing negotiations – resulting in nearly $500 billion in new investment commitments to Canada.
Canada’s leading pension funds, insurers, and ins utional investors committed nearly $100 billion in new capital to Canadian assets:
- CPP Investments and Brookfield Asset Management launched the $50 billion Maple Fund to invest in critical infrastructure and strategic industries across Canada.
- PSP Investments will increase its Canadian investments by 30 to 40%, an additional $25 billion in Canada, totalling $100 billion.
- The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (OTPP) will invest an additional $10 billion in Canadian opportunities across public and private markets by the end of 2027.
- Sun Life Financial will invest $5 billion over the next five years in critical infrastructure, including digital technology, energy, and transportation.
Canada’s top banks committed nearly $325 billion in new financing for Canadian businesses and infrastructure:
- TD Bank will provide $150 billion in financing over five years across five key sectors, including energy, critical minerals and resources, defence and aerospace, digital and AI, and infrastructure.
- Scotiabank will provide over $100 billion in financing over five years to support Canadian companies and projects in key sectors that will drive forward Canada’s economic growth agenda.
- BMO will invest and mobilise $70 billion in critical Canadian sectors over 10 years, including in energy and transportation infrastructure, mining and critical minerals, AI computing, and defence and security.
- CIBC will provide $2 billion in financing to small and medium-sized defence-related and dual-use businesses in Canada. Funding will be targeted to support eligible businesses operating across a range of strategic sectors, including infrastructure, energy, cybersecurity, digital capabilities, and advanced technologies.
- RBC will invest and mobilise nearly $1.5 billion to support Canadian technology companies with high growth potential. They will provide investee companies with access to commercialisation opportunities, strategic partnerships, and expansion support that are often unavailable through traditional investors.
Investment funds committed to mobilise more than $14 billion in capital to grow Canadian companies, infrastructure, and strategic sectors:
- Power Sustainable will invest and mobilise more than $10 billion for Canadian infrastructure, including power and grid, fibre and data, environmental solutions, and food supply chains.
- Radical Ventures will invest and mobilise $4 billion to launch the Radical Breakouts Fund, the largest venture capital fund of its kind in Canadian history, supporting Canadian AI scale-ups across the technology stack.
On the margins of the Summit, Bell Canada, in partnership with the Government of Saskatchewan, announced a historic expansion of the Bell AI Fabric to build a 1.2-gigawatt Canadian AI infrastructure hub in Saskatchewan. This $52.5 billion capital investment is the largest in the province’s history and is expected to create more than 4,500 jobs across construction, operations, management, and related services.
To build on this momentum and unlock even more investment, Prime Minister Carney announced the game-changing new Productivity Mega Deduction, which will allow businesses to deduct the cost of a much broader range of assets right away, including fibre-optic cable, mining property, oil and gas pipelines, software, research and development, computer equipment, aircraft and vehicles, patents, rail track, bridges, and roads. The federal government is also making immediate expensing permanent so businesses can recover these costs sooner. The new Productivity Mega Deduction means Canada’s marginal effective tax rate on new business investment will fall from roughly 13% to 6.4% – the lowest of any major economy in the world and less than half the rate in the United States.
To further unleash capital, the Prime Minister announced that Canada will seek private investment through long-term concessions to operate Canada’s four largest airports. Working with airport authorities and other stakeholders, including airlines and local governments, the federal government will retain ownership of the underlying land and assets, while also bringing in new private capital. The tens of billions of dollars of capital raised would then be reinvested into building the infrastructure that Canada needs for the next generation: regional airports, new local transportation infrastructure, and new nation-building infrastructure, including a sovereign broadband backbone that connects Canadians from coast to coast to coast.
The government also made landmark new investments in two sectors central to Canada’s compe iveness: defence and critical minerals. Through the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC), the federal government will deploy $700 million in new funding to accelerate growth in Canadian defence and dual-use technologies, including $500 million across specialised investment funds and $200 million for StrongNorth, increasing the fund from $300 million to $500 million. These investments are part of the BDC’s $6 billion Defence Platform, which helps Canadian companies scale, innovate, and compete globally through financing, investment, and advisory support. The government also committed approximately $140 million through the Canada Growth Fund to support Generation Mining’s Marathon Project in Northwestern Ontario – one of Canada’s only fully permitted, shovel-ready critical minerals projects. The project will produce copper and palladium, strengthening domestic supply and building more resilient North American supply chains.
Business leaders, investors, and financial ins utions are mobilising behind Canada’s bold new vision to build, innovate, and lead in a changing world, and the impact on Canada and Canadians will be profound. These agreements will catalyse nearly $500 billion of investment into Canadian workers, businesses, and industries – in energy, critical minerals, new technologies, and AI – create thousands of new high-paying careers, and bolster our strategic autonomy. The Canada Investment Summit advanced our most important mission of building a stronger, more independent, more resilient Canadian economy for all.
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“The Canada Investment Summit brought the world to Canada with a clear message: Canada is building big. Build with us. We unleashed nearly $500 billion of new investment into Canadian businesses and infrastructure – and this is just the beginning. The world sees our strengths and ambitions, and we will harness this moment to generate lasting growth, opportunity, and prosperity for Canadians. Canada is boldly unleashing our enormous potential, and we are just getting started.”
The Rt. Hon. Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada
“The Canada Investment Summit has reinforced the depth of global interest in Canada and the opportunity to turn that interest into action. Over the past two days, we have brought together leading investors, businesses, and public-sector partners around a compelling investment case for Canada, and identified concrete areas for further engagement. The CPP Investments team is energised by the conversations and stands ready to work with partners around the world to create enduring value in Canada for the CPP Fund. The real measure of this Summit will be what happens next, and I am confident the relationships and momentum built here can translate into meaningful investment and lasting economic value.”
John Graham, President and Chief Executive Officer of CPP Investments
“PSP Investments is proud to have played a role in reinforcing Canada’s standing as a destination of choice for global capital. Canadian business leaders and global investors have answered the call. We have a solid foundation in place. Now we need to capitalise on it. In this new global investing regime, Canada is well positioned to compete for capital, and we are confident in the momentum already taking shape.”
Deborah K. Orida, President and Chief Executive Officer of PSP Investments
Quick facts
- The Canada Investment Summit was hosted by the federal government in partnership with CPP Investments and PSP Investments, two of Canada’s largest and most sophisticated ins utional investors.
- Over five years, the government’s capital investments and incentives in support of third parties are expected to help enable more than $1 trillion in total investment from public, private, and ins utional partners.
- Canada consistently ranks among the top destinations for foreign direct investment (FDI) confidence, with a AAA credit rating, the lowest net debt-to-GDP ratio in the G7, and the number one ranking among G7 countries for banking stability.
- FDI in Canada is at its highest level in two decades, running at twice the rate of our nearest G7 compe or.
- Canada is now creating jobs at four times the rate of the United States.
- We have the world’s most educated workforce, a leading AI sector that is adding jobs faster than the United States, and a $140 billion quantum opportunity.
- With 16 free trade agreements across 51 countries, Canada has preferential access to 1.5 billion consumers representing two thirds of global GDP. Over the next six months, we will double that market access through new trade deals, from ASEAN to India.
- Canada ranks as the most attractive country in the world for infrastructure investment.
- Since September 2025, we have referred 27 nation-building initiatives to the new Major Projects Office – new ports, mines, and energy corridors from every region of the country that now represent $500 billion in new private investment.
- Outlined in Budget 2025 in and the Spring Economic Update 2026, the government committed to reforming Canada’s airports system to lower air passenger costs and better position airports to attract private investment. This included assessing opportunities to unlock the full value of airports in support of investments in Canada’s long-term growth, including through alternative models of ownership.
EU president opens the door for Canada becoming becoming an associate member of the EU
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjwyzrr9d3dkoThe president of the European Commission has backed proposals for Canada to become the EU's first "associate member".
Ursula von der Leyen told the European Parliament on Wednesday she wanted to work on "opening the door" for Canada, which would involve closer ties on various key sectors.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney last week spoke of seeking a "unique alliance" with the EU, coming as he faces tense relations with the US and Donald Trump.
Without mentioning the US president by name, von der Leyen said offering Canada some sort of EU membership was "not a partnership against anyone else, but for our common strength."
She added: "Partnerships are a strategic choice for Europe. But they also respond to the fracture in the international rules-based system".
Trump thinks threatening Canada more will drive them away from the EU, not closer
Threatening to cut off trade with the EU is just moronic, it would hurt us too, massively
Trump is a dunce
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/0...ember-01081525
how it started
how it's going
Lukashenko says Belarus doesn’t have enough potash for Trump
“Even if we wanted to supply [potash] to other, Western markets, we simply do not have those volumes,” said the Belarusian president.
lol dumb Donny
https://fortune.com/2026/09/25/canad...us-automakers/‘U.S. trade policy is damaging the U.S. auto industry’: Canada’s purchase of American cars hits new low as Trump’s tariffs backfire on U.S. automakers
A decade ago, nearly half of new cars hitting Canadian roads were built in America, but after months of restrictive U.S. tariffs, the number of Big Three autos purchased from America’s northern neighbor have dropped precipitously.
Only 28.4% of new-vehicle sales in Canada in the first half of 2026 were U.S.-built, down from 35.4% in the first half of 2025, according to JD Power Canada data. From about 2021 to 2025, the U.S. market share of new vehicles in Canada was roughly 40%.
Auto analysts blame the steep decline on a series of import taxes placed on Canada over the past year and a half, which included a 25% tariff on Canadian-made cars, a levy expected to double and apply to Canadian auto parts, steel, and vehicles on Jan. 1, 2027. Canada imposed countermeasures, including retaliatory tariffs on American-made autos, as well as on steel and aluminum.
The U.S. auto industry relies heavily on Canada, which is the largest export market for American automakers—larger than the next 10 markets combined, according to a Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) analysis published last month. Auto trade between the two countries has topped $100 billion this year, and despite the speed bumps in trade policy, Canada remains America’s largest auto market.
Yet recent trade policies are not only eroding this relationship, analysts warn, but increasing the likelihood the import taxes meant to punish Canada are actually having a larger adverse impact on American automakers.
“The data is irrefutable,” Brian Kingston, CEO of the Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers’ Association, which represents America’s major automakers in Canada, told Automotive News Canada. “By virtually every metric—be it jobs, production, prices, tariff costs—every metric points to the same thing: U.S. trade policy is damaging the U.S. auto industry.”
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https://globalnews.ca/news/12073272/...ne/Global+NewsCanadian potash company invests $500M in North Vancouver shipping terminal
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More than 15 million tonnes of Canadian potash are delivered by Canpotex annually. It ships the critical mineral from producers, including Nutrien and Mosaic Canada, to more than 40 countries every year, according to its website.
Vancouver Fraser Port Authority President and CEO Peter Xotta described Canpotex’s investment as “significant” in the news release. The funds “will better connect Saskatchewan potash to key markets in South America, the Indo-Pacific and beyond,” he said.
“Port of Vancouver terminals, such as Neptune, are playing an outsized role moving more of what Canadians make to overseas markets in support of Canada’s goal to double exports to non-U.S. markets,” Xotta added.
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East-West Canadian pipeline
They don't have anything we need, right?
https://www.indiatoday.in/world/stor...257-2026-10-10Canada sends biggest trade mission to India in 30 years amid CEPA push
Canada will send nearly 300 business delegates to India next week in its biggest trade mission to the country in more than 30 years, as it looks to expand commercial ties and "more than double bilateral trade" by 2030.
The delegation, led by Canadian Minister of International Trade Maninder Sidhu, will visit Mumbai and Bengaluru from October 12 to 17, according to an official statement issued on Friday. The visit comes as India and Canada work to conclude negotiations for a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) by the end of this year.
Sidhu said, "By matching Canadian expertise in sectors like aerospace, agri-food and clean technology with India's growing demand, we will diversify our trade and attract new investment." According to the statement, the mission is aimed at helping Canadian businesses connect with Indian decision-makers, industry leaders and potential customers, while building partnerships expected to generate employment in Canada.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/canadi...ssue-9.7375873Canadians are still boycotting Las Vegas. The Sin City slump is now a major election issue
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Nevada's unemployment rate is among the highest in the U.S., and workers in its tourism-dominated economy are reporting more frequent shift cuts and fewer hours.
"Our members are paying the price of this craziness that is going on in the White House," Valles said.
Republicans in the state have highlighted Trump's "no tax on tips" policy, enacted last year, which has benefitted hospitality workers in Las Vegas in particular.
But if the tips dry up, the policy means less.
"We are in a silent recession here in Las Vegas, and it is because of Donald Trump’s trade war," Ridenour said.
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