Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney plays hardball with Trump. 
Hardball Canadian Style
Please note Canada’s Carney Tells Trump ‘I Meant What I Said’ in Davos
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said he spoke to President Trump and told him he stands by his remarks last week issuing a call-to-arms among smaller powers against economic coercion.
“To be absolutely clear, and I said this to the president: ‘I meant what I said in Davos,’” Carney said Tuesday before a cabinet meeting. “It was a broader set of issues, and Canada was the first country to understand the change in U.S. trade policy that he initiated, and we’re responding to that.”
The Canadian leader’s remarks to reporters Tuesday were meant to rebut comments from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. Bessent told Fox News Monday night that he was in the Oval Office when Trump and Carney spoke by phone, and Carney “was very aggressively walking back some of the unfortunate remarks he made at Davos.”
In posts on the Truth Social platform, Trump referred to Carney as “governor,” a reminder of the president’s previous musings about using economic force to compel Canada to become the 51st state. Trump also warned that Canada “is systematically destroying itself” by deepening economic ties with China.
“The fresh round of name calling signals a clear deterioration in goodwill and an early preview of how the USMCA renewal talks may unfold,” Rosenberg said. “The message is that Ottawa should not expect a conciliatory process.”
Unfortunate Remarks?
Yes, by Trump.
In a rambling, pathetic speech, Trump alienated everyone in Europe and confused Greenland with Iceland four times.
No More Mr. Nice Guy
I am pleased to report Canada’s Carney Ditches ‘Mr. Nice Guy’ Approach to Trump
Prime Minister Mark Carney came into office almost a year ago trying to build warm relations with President Trump. Now, he is playing hardball.
By resolving a trade dispute with China and issuing a call-to-arms against economic coercion at Davos, Switzerland, the former central-banker governor known for his calculated caution is taking Canada into a high-stakes gambit that could put its economy in an even tighter squeeze, political analysts said.
He may not have a choice, the analysts said. Carney has tried to appease Trump with strengthened border security, fentanyl-trafficking deterrence, ramping up military spending and dropping a digital tax affecting U.S. tech companies. None of it has worked, and he needs leverage going into negotiations this year to redo the U.S.-Mexico-Canada free-trade agreement, or USMCA, that underpins the country’s economy.
Carney “has tried to be nice, but he hasn’t gotten too far,” said Christopher Sands, director of Canadian studies at Johns Hopkins University. “Carney is now turning up the heat to get more attention.”
Fen Hampson, an international politics professor at Ottawa’s Carleton University, said Carney has decided “it’s time to take the gloves off and play hardball.”
Hampson said the timing of Canada’s trade resolution with China “is sending a strong message to Washington. You don’t want to play ball with us. Well, guess what, the rest of the world does, and the rest of the world is our oyster.”
Beyond China, Carney has tried to create stronger ties with Europe and Persian Gulf states. In Qatar, shortly following his China breakthrough, Carney said he secured investment pledges from the Gulf state in Canadian clean-energy projects, artificial-intelligence ventures, and the defense sector. Canada has also gained access to a European Union defense fund, to reduce dependence on the U.S.
Appeasing Trump Is a Mistake
Genuinely appeasing Trump is a mistake because he always wants more and will renege on any deals he does make.
Why make deals with a liar who will not honor them?
It took a while, but Carney finally figured this out.
Some appease Trump with flattery and offers they will not try to fulfil, but eventually Trump figures that out.
If the goal is to buy time, OK flattery works, but the end game always looms.
Eventually, you have to take a stand, and Carney just did.
Carney Dares Trump, Just Do It
By noting that Bessent is a liar, Carney is in effect daring Trump to put 100 percent tariffs on Canada.
That means Carney must have a strategy in mind.
I propose halting all auto parts and oil exports to the US.
Yes, that would cause Canada a lot of pain, but also the US. It would shut down US auto manufacturing and send the price of oil higher.
US refiners need sour crude and the Canadian pipelines are in place. Venezuela is 2,000 miles and a decade away.
Is Trump in a Position to Take any Pain?
Consumer confidence is at the lowest point since 2014, the jobs picture looks bleak, support for Trump’s immigration policy is in the gutter, housing is anemic, and people are still concerned over inflation.
If Trump wants to make the US economy worse, all he has to do if go ape on tariffs again.
I believe Carney realizes this, or he would not be taunting Trump and making the Treasury Secretary look like a fool.
At this stage, taunting Trump is good. Other countries should try it.
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Canada has a leader. The US has a [fill in the blank].
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Too bad this topic has moved on, but what is being missed is Carney is playing hardball when he has no balls.
Cut off oil? Alberta is on the verge of leaving already, possibly to become a 51st state. They will never allow it.
Stop shipping auto parts? With what army? These are independent foreign corporations with their only loyalty to Canada being our lower wages. If Trump puts on 100% tariffs they will move in a heart beat. Many already have.
As for banding together with the “middle powers”; with what? The liberals have bottled up our oil and natural gas with pipeline and port bans that Carney refuses to lift. We can’t mine or build anything without a decades worth of environmental studies and “native consultations”. Of which Carney has only added more bureaucracy to.
Our taxes are huge and go to a massively increasing and ever more useless public service, welfare state, obsolete medical service, green vanity projects, and debt. And if that doesn’t chase off businesses then having land titles given over to natives will. Another thing Carney has refused to address.
Other than poutine and maple syrup Canada has nothing to offer the world while the liberals are in power. And thanks to a bought and paid for leftist media, Marxist captured schools and universities, and mass immigration of lefty sycophants and apologists, there is a very real possibility the liberals may never leave power.
So no, Carney is smoking heavy amounts of liberal legalized pot if he thinks Canada will lead a coalition of anything let alone countries of middling powers.
An interesting take on Greenland:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EonPLYOP6ME
Now to cover up his lie Bissent is telling Carney not to pick a fight or else. So Bissent
is not denying that he lied about Carney walking things back. He simply threatens him.
More republican comedy
65 years ago, the president of my country (though who had centralisation drawbacks) declared that alliances don t last forever and that the country security cannot be relied on the will of the American farmer.
Peoples didn t trusted him fully seriously of what s later happening today. We first thought to have a military supply chain fully indepedent of any nations (still effective).
But unlike Carney we fully drew the conclusions : even if it wouldn t be as powerfull as the United States or Ussr, we should have our own nuclear arsenal aimed against the Ussr. Just as deterence.
And not only this but my country thought that other european countries need to have nuclear arsenals until that policy change in the 1990s when the non profileferation treaty was signed in 1994. Only Spain accepted the help for building military nuclear reactors (until the 1970s before anything got acheived) while other countres all prefered the United States protection.
Canada destroyed itself when Reagan’s puppets – the Mulroney junta that hi-jacked the Conservative Party – sold Canada out with the FTA and NAFTA over 30 years ago. While I had little use for the Liberals, under Chretien, who followed, it was they who opened the door to China in an attempt to mitigate the damage done by the FTA and NAFTA. All Carney is doing is re-cycling old ideas.
https://indi.ca/wolves-crying-wolf-canada-denmark-etc/
“These people are not mourning the loss of the ‘rules-based order’ here, they’re bemoaning the fact that the actual rules might apply to them. That they might be invaded because they’re weak, despite their White skin.”
The Trump regime lies so much I suspect they’re losing their grip on reality.
OR, it could be even more sinister requiring us to dust off an old quote from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn:
“We know that they are lying, they know that they are lying, they even know that we know they are lying, we also know that they know we know they are lying too, they of course know that we certainly know they know we know they are lying too as well, but they are still lying. In our country, the lie has become not just moral category, but the pillar industry of this country.”
Canada would make a Great State in the USA. Consolidation would save all your Federal Government costs –Cut your military costs–more freedom of expression –It would make the average citizen more prosperous
They like their health care, it works.
And they’re not a nation of Nazi assholes, it works too.
Fill in the blank = “ Nescience Bloviator ”
How many times can someone foul the pool before everyone finally catches on that they’re not exactly working with a full deck?
Thats the about the only option he has. Recruit others to join a fight against the USA.
The guy is a Central Banker therefore he knows how to lie and BS and make it sound good!
He certainly hooked many here!
Carney is smart enough to recognize that the Trump regime is isolating and limiting the US manufacturers to only supply the US and its population of 300 million. Carney is opening his nations supply chain to the world and its population of 8 billion.
Trump does not honor his treaties or word. He is a convicted felon that threatens his neighbors and allies, kills his own citizens in the streets and violates the rule of law.
You may like strongmen and bullies, I prefer statesmen and men of substance.
I also prefer freedom, peace and prosperity!
I wouldn’t say it’s a love for Carney so much as it is an extension of the irrational rage and hatred many have for Trump.
If it were any other US president in office, they’d join the chorus of laughter at Carney, but many have no thinking ability remaining. They have no ability to think on their own. We saw the same thing during covid.
Canada has a leader. The US has a con man
Carney is somebody who stands up to the constant stream of lies coming out of the White House. One would wish our own mainstream press would have a bit more courage to call a lie a lie.
Bravo! +100
The FCC has already been used as a weapon
lol, licking central banker boot.
As Canadians, we’ve actually modelled a failing USA – and we know it will be difficult for us. The Civil War in USA was essentially what created the Dominion. MacDonald and Laurier pitched the deal to the Brits – give us full control of the Dominion, and we will defend it – no need for English troops, and all that expense, and we give a solid free-trade deal with the United Kingdom. They agreed, and we got the British North-America Act, and our Nation.
If the Acting US President goes further crazy, and breaks relations with Canada, we close the border and suspend trade. I’m pushing for a Switzerland defense model – every able-bodied man enrolled in some kind of Government run Militia. Long tradition actually of that here, up until the mid-1960’s, when things started to go soft. Many Canadians have US relatives – especially in Michigan, New York, California and Florida. If USA attacks us, it will be sad and bad. Family fights are always the worst. And it would destroy American peace and prosperity, just as much as it would harm Canada. Also, if USA were to do something so stupid as to attack an ally, it would end NATO completely, and encourage China and Russia to take advantage of the insane chaos. I recall the premise of the book “On The Beach” – the world nuclear war was started by a rogue group of Egyptian officers, who acquired a small atom bomb, and faked their way to New York, with a commercial airliner, to drop it there.
The Americans assumed the atom-bombing of New York was a Russian attack, so they launched their ICBM’s, which when Russian radar saw this, they did the same. All not good.
War can get real unpredictable, real fast. And a US war against Canada, would pretty much prove that Trump is a Russian Asset – which we think he really might be. Really.
– RF
There’s no going to be a damn war between the US and Canada. Stop worrying about that and get yourselves a First Amendment.
With Trump, anything is possible, including war with Canada.
Just one more front to add to Michigan, Iceland, and Venezuela.
The paranoia is a bottomless pit.
100% this. Same for the UK, France, Aus and NZ.
Trump is a Russian double-agent, codename Krasnov.
Good article Mish. I am also impressed with Carney. He is articulate, eloquent, and intelligent. So refreshing compared to Trump, who is bumbling, boorish, and a moron. Not to mention Trump’s worsening dementia.
Like most political leaders, Carney tried the praise and appeasement strategy, which wears off very quickly with Trump who has the attention span of a gnat.
As stated in his marvellous speech, there is no appeasing the major powers.
So it’s time for Canada to build more trade relations with the rest of the world. Which Carney is working hard to do. And it’s time to stop appeasing Trump. Instead, call Trump’s bluff. Let him put 100% tariffs on Canadian oil, potash, uranium, aluminum etc and see what happens. It will put a lie to Trump’s claim that the US needs nothing from Canada.
lol, he’s a banker. He knows how to bs his way through a cobbled together speech from his failing party.
A banker AND a financier. And he is using his worldwide connections developed over a lifetime to build trade relations for Canada with everyone he can. It will take time, but he is moving in the right direction. It’s not just about his ability to speak, it’s about his ability to get things done.
Yes ~ Carney is a banker, one with global connections and friends all over the world. Trump is a 6x bankrupt carnival barker and 34x convicted felon for defrauding banks.
Let’s not forget accused pedophile that is involved with the congress in obstructing justice and the release of the Epstein files.
Any questions?
One important one… Who Does Trump Work For?
While i wouldn’t call it work, he definitely owes you years of back rent for occupying your headspace. You should collect! Or at least ask to speak to his manager.
oh, a financier!
He is just another criminal from his party. You can dress it up any way you like, but his globalist ideology is how both Canada and the US got hollowed out. I’m sure you’re good. The bottom 40%? Not likely.
I am good. Thanks. Globalism and trade is how we have improved the living standards of the entire world. The alternative is an even wider gulf between the rich and poor. Is that what you advocate for?
Capitalism improved the standard of living around the world. Globalism hurt us here. Not acknowledging this reality is sticking your head in the sand. Which many people like you do, so long as you’re not being hurt by it. right, dave?
I’m not fond of bankers either but Trump was a real estate developer. Even worse in my book. Also, Trump clearly is getting senile and more unhinged by the day. Carney gave a great speech and seems to be sticking with it, understanding that Trump caves as soon as he gets a little pushback. Well done Canada.
Canada is not a country with quality leadership. Hasn’t been for a few decades. Similar to the US. Regardless of your rage at Trump, we’ve been on a downward slope for at least 25 years, and many voters seem unwilling to deal with the bigger issues that have caused that.
Making a boogie man out of orange man is very convenient to distract from our self inflicted wounds that have bubbled up with crime, homelessness, terrible public schools, poor control and prosecution of fraud, poor municipal financial controls, and on and on.
I’m sorry that you’re hatred of Trump is unable to deflect these things. I wish it could. If that worked, I’d join you. But it’s just self delusion.
From what I can find:
If the USMCA is terminated, it would not end immediately; instead, the agreement would shift into annual reviews until 2036, allowing time for the parties to negotiate a new agreement or extension. This could create uncertainty in trade relations, but Canadian exports would likely remain largely tariff-free until a new deal is reached or the agreement officially expires.
So maybe Carney understands Trump 2.0 won’t last that long.
I really haven’t seen this discussed anywhere or maybe I missed it.
Trump already terminated USMCA
He broke the treaty
Ok.
So Canada has ten years to move on and Carney is starting. What else would anyone expect him to do. His Davos speech was spot on and I hope other nations are taking it seriously.
The USA is currently looking like Russia after they got rid of Gorbachev . The American Boris Yeltsin crime family is/has taken over.
A country that has forever talked about rights is gradually letting them go one by one by not standing up for them because they belong to one cult or the other. Watching on TV is not good enough.
Shameful
It starts locally. Look at every large West coast city. Poorly run, financially torpedoing itself, accepted homelessness and crime and then threw money at NGOs that profited from those.
We better wake up. NYC is next in line for financial seppuku.
The Nobel Prize committee was notified today that Trump’s surrender to Antifa in the Many Sodas War means Trump has now ended 14 wars.
It’s time to Truman Show this old coot the way they did his father.
I think both sides need to take a deep breath and chill. We’ve heard about conquering and dividing, that is exactly what is happening. Just look at the number of approve vs disapprove votes. There is a lot of history of goodwill and trade between us in Canada and the US Lets not F**K it up
Nobody wins, especially not our grandchildren
The populace has been chill.
The administration has the problem.
Saying chill is about as effective as telling your wife to cool her titties. It won’t have that effect
Hope Carney doesn’t get kidnapped.
Trump is a crony-capitalist zionist posturing as a champion of American workers.
His appeal is not competence, but that he represents a punch to the nose of the powers that be.
Teen-age upstart mentality has its attractions, but in the long run reality overrules all delusions.
bully bully
If Trump attacking Iran is forestalled due to Trump’s cratering poll numbers, the death of Alex Pretti may save a lot of lives. It’s a crude calculation, but probably true.
3 long years to bomb the living hell out of the world. amerikans love the world war domination. his polls will skyrocket. if we take a big hit, from Russia or China or Persia…….here like 9.11.01, he’s a hero. the scariest time was after 9.11.01 and the blue and red uniparty team didn’t even make believe anymore. patriotic songs sung together ON WALL STREET FEDERAL HALL NATIONAL MONUMENT.
Has Trump indicated he wants to invade Iran? I heard the same reaction after the Maduro action. As usual, people assuming things they don’t know about.
I didn’t say invade. I said attack. He already did it once.
He did. What was the result of that?
Which might well be true, but in no way lessens the need to stop ICE becoming even more Trump’s private army, not beholden to any accountability for its crimes.
The U. S. needs Canada’s oil and natural gas.
imagine if Canada pulled the plug on Hydro Power wired to the States. yikes. i don’t think they would do that in this dangerous cold snap, but might wait for summer and election season down here in pax dumbfuckistan
Yup, that’s a big factor in New England. Minnesota Power provides the electricity to the Duluth, MN. They righteously claim to be almost entirely renewable, but that’s because they buy ALL of the wind power generated in MN (most of which is from hundreds of miles to the southwest) and they buy their base load from Winnipeg hydroelectric. Plus, Duluth is pretty small. The CEO is a lady, so that makes them even more better.
trade wars and hot wars are idiotic, when there is no impending danger. all those busboys and maids and construction workers……..from mexico……really frightens the big ole sissies we call MAGA.
Does she have big bewbies?
Ontario gets their oil by pipeline that passes through the US so I doubt they would do that. Also it is Quebec that furnishes the electricity and they might not want to follow Ottawa’s orders on something like this. You might say they see their relations with the US more important that their relations with Ottawa.
i said i don’t think they will do it, dougie. i keep blocking you and you keep coming back. like some annoying horse fly. good luck Sun Tsu
I forgot your name but you didn’t forget mine.
good one, dougie. you got me. this sites blocking mechanism blows. you are too dumb.
It is right there on the page…. waitaminute… do you READ any of this?
“You might say they see their relations with the US more important that their relations with Ottawa.”
I can assure you that this is not correct. Anyway, don’t worry Americans, shutting off your electricity/energy supply would be cruel, especially in winter, and cruelty is not something that comes easily to us. If the situation gets really threatening, look for non-enforcement of patents/copyright first, which would spare regular Americans from pain but kick Trump’s oligarch supporters in the nuts.
You can always trust a banker. Ask them…. they’ll tell you.
Carney and Bessent. They’re both bankers, right? About this phone call, I believe Carney. After all, he did commit candor at Davos by admitting that the Europeons have been vassals who went along with US hegemony when they thought it served their own interests.
Bessent was never a banker. He was a hedge fund manager.
That’s even worse.
Different skill sets.
A very failed hedge fund too
dow/gold ratio under 10 now. guessing she is gonna head to 1 or 2 in the next year or three. who wants to be a trillionaire?
Well Mike, sounds full of your BS.
Carney, the governor of a 25,000,000-population country in the control of Liberal loons, Indians and the Communist Chinese, is going to play “hardball”. With what?
Try 42,000,000
Highlights your accuracy.
Submitting to bullies never works. Bullies are cowards in the end.
Carney is probably thinking there are mid-terms and Trump eventually meet consequences with all his lies and distortions. Greatest economy ever, China gonna pay so much tariff we can distribute dividends and abolish income tax and outrun the debt, everybody in the world loves and respects America …
The US cannot take on the world, trying to get back to 1946 when it represented half of GDP world wide after the destruction of most capital infrastructure elsewhere.
that sir is hitting the nail on the head. we had the same percentage of humans in US in 1946 as we do now. tiny percent. but we owned half the GDP and had barely a scratch from ww2. a village idiot could live large until 1965. lbj defaulted on silver. guns and butter and getting our asses kicked in indochina was the top. the rest has been a slide down. crumbling evil empires don’t happen in an after school special movie time. as my pals in charleston SC all said about their dumbass great great grandaddies, they were arrogant AND ignorant, and committed suicide going up against the mechanics of the north. we are crumbling fast now.
old irondoor sounds like he might be retarded. i mean special needs. know what energy is, kid. fertilizer?
Minerals of all sorts including petroleum, electricity they export to the central northern US, forest products, aluminum, and tourists for starters. Canada has more clout than a lot of folks commenting give it credit. The other commodity they have is honor, they have kept their end of the trade deals as far as I know.
Potash… Or fertilizer is you want to be more specific. The US farmer is absolutely screwed if Canada stope Potash exports.
Trump’s attacking our allies is so unbelievably stupid, one has to ask, who is it that voted for this pervert?
Regardless of what Carney says, Canada will always be married to the USA and China will never be anything more than a side piece.
Right now Canada is trying to flaunt the side piece in public and that never ends well.
tween girl logic.
Yes. Just like the two Korea’s or anyone next to Russia.
There’s no reason to expect Canada and USA to be “good trade partners”. For Canada, the price is too much. It’s not about the money. It’s about the instability and insecurity offered with the deal.
Good Lord what idiocy.
Canada was a near-perfect trading partner for the US
Trump ended it
Why piss off your neighbors? Especially when they were good neighbors.
I’m sure you are referring to Trump here? With the bogus fentanyl story?
When you’re an asshole, you just can’t help it.
democracy has always worked, since at least when Plato and Socrates penned “republic”. assholes will elect assholes. amerikans are assholes. at least 98% of them who have voted D and R forever. war mongering imperial douche bags. this is just the facts.
“The US has a [fill in the blank].”
Clown….running the circus administration full of freaks.
Bankster Carnage’s comments are intended to whip up support for his Trudeau 2.0 gubment going into the snap Spring 2026 election he intends to call. Bessent and Lutnik are correct: his remarks are bluster, the proof of which will be how desperate Canada becomes when they realize USMCA (CUSMA) is likely to be terminated.
It might be terminated. It is not the first time the US has had a trade war with Canada. The 1890 one was a dozy. Carney is probably expecting a replay. Then the UK picked up some of the slack. He certainly expects the EU to play the role of the UK this time. The difference was that back then globalism was on the rise. This time globalism is on the decline. The momentum is different.
horse shit. trading among the world’s nations has never been more extensive. all these fat dumbfucks who get medicaide and shop at walmart for inexpensive toys are a force to be wreckened with. you could probably bag a few with some bear traps and a few donuts
You said something?
Agreed, and the EU needs to save itself, so they are of no use to anyone right now, except China perhaps.
The current administration does appear to be the largest group of all-time liars and distortionists of the truth in our nation’s history.
that list is very long. and very vile. uss maine. pearl harbor. tonkin, 9.11.01………
but trump surely is on the list of amerikan evil twats.
You never met Al Gore and John Kerry, I presume.
i met both. grade AAA amerikan douche bags. like their voters. what i told Kerry, about his race was hysterical, now that i reflect back, so long ago. i told him they play hardball in SC, so take off the gloves. he waved me off, with his obnoxious style, like he understood. few monts later, admiral schachte, a man i knew well in Charleston, SC, swiftboated Kerry. the rest is history. he really was a grade AAA amerikan douche.
Oh son, the only way this is true is if you’re 12 months old because that means you never heard about Obamacare, that inflation was just in your mind, that there were WMDs in Iraq and so on.
Your TDS is flaring up.