Trump’s tariffs and preposterous taunts Canada led to liberals to victory in Canada.
Canadians Elect Mark Carney’s Liberals to Confront Trump
The Wall Street Journal reports Canadians Elect Mark Carney’s Liberals to Confront Trump
Canadians kept the Liberal Party in power, entrusting Prime Minister Mark Carney to forge a new course for their struggling economy and stand up to President Trump.
Carney’s Liberals were set to win a fourth term in national elections on Monday, Canadian broadcast networks said. It wasn’t clear whether his Liberals would win a majority of seats or a smaller share that would require them to win support from other parties to govern, the broadcaster said. Carney, former head of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England, became prime minister after Justin Trudeau stepped down in January.
Carney’s victory is a remarkable one for a Liberal Party headed for defeat at the start of this year. The Conservatives, led by Pierre Poilievre, had more than a 20-point lead, reflecting voter fatigue with a three-term Trudeau administration and anger over inflation and high housing costs.
Trudeau’s resignation and Trump’s return to the White House precipitated a reversal in fortunes for the Liberals under Carney, who said he was the best candidate to handle Trump and reshape an economy dependent on U.S. demand. Left-leaning politicians in Australia and the U.K., too, have benefited from appearing to best embody opposition to Trump’s plans.
Carney has said Canada needs to lower internal trade barriers and do more business with Europe and Asia after decades of ever-tightening economic and security cooperation with the U.S. He touted his experience leading the Bank of Canada during the financial crisis and the Bank of England after the U.K. voted to leave the European Union.
“Carney has the economic know-how to deal with a childlike Trump,” Maria Longo, a mortgage broker from Montreal, said over the weekend ahead of the vote. “Trump is ruining the world.”
Poilievre suffered for rhetoric too similar to Trump’s, pollsters said. Abacus Data polling last week indicated that 46% of Canadians held a negative perception of Poilievre, the highest level since the start of the campaign.
Tariffs and Taunts
Trump repeated taunts that Canada should become the 51 US state despite the fact that it helped liberals.
Trump broke his own “best in history” USMCA trade deal with Canada and Mexico that he personally negotiated.
And for much of the year, Trump treated Canada worse than China.
As a result, another liberal clown is heading up the Canadian government.
Effectively, Trump was on the ballot in Canada, and lost.
Lost Opportunity
Had Conservatives won, Trump could have forged better ties over energy and cooperated on rare earth minerals.
Instead, the outcome is bad for Canada and bad for the US.
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Let’s do a fact check on Trump’s Canada claims.
Please read over and over Cheese Was a “Key Achievement” of Trump’s USMCA Trade Agreement
The above post contains over a dozen instances in which Trump bragged what a great deal.
It was such a great deal that Trump thanked Mexico and Canada. Notably USMCA is “Good for everybody – Farmers, Manufacturers, Energy, Unions – tremendous support. Importantly, we will finally end our Country’s worst Trade Deal, NAFTA!”
Then he trashed the best trade relationship in the whole world, for less than nothing.
The US and Canada both lose from Trumpian idiocies.
The Trump turmoil will eventually go away and it will probably happen well before his term is up. Meanwhile Canada is stuck with what they voted for and have likely cut off their nose to spite their face.
The election result has really got people in Alberta talking about splitting from Canada and going independent or joining the US. It has alienated western provinces and people are angry. I’m surprised at the determination of these folks as they are having meetings to seriously discuss it. It’s mostly the rural voters and not the city people who feel this way. We’ll see if the sentiment lasts but the idea of joining the US is gaining momentum.
Haha Maybe the people of canada looked at the us and Israel and saw what the right is these days. decided they would rather take the chance of having to peeing beside some dude in a dress than all this winning.
right, vote for the WEF central banker. Brilliant. How’s the economy and crime up there?
People vote how they want to. They also get what they vote for.
The WEF gay banker would have won regardless in Canukastan since it’s banker land, like the gay EU, gay US, etc, run by billionaires. Now if Amazon–originally ancient female warriors— would only list all the foreign country tariffs it pays on their products sold to be fair and balanced in a mercantile world of equal opportunity with equal outcomes. Alas, if that world existed all those states would have speedy executions for equal opportunity killers with equal outcomes for all their murdering whether from the wealthy upper 1% of murdering bankers or the bottom 1% of gang bangers, foreign or domestic. Funny how equal opportunity with equal outcomes never seems to happen in the republic of rinos and dinos. . . . . .
Trump is sinking America. By putting Canada at the forefront of international trade and moving away from American policy, Mark Carney will allow America to fail on its own.
lol, Mark Carney is Canada’s Dollar Store Tim Walz.
Ding ding ding. Trump doesn’t want the liberal shitholes. He wants the natural resources. Help elect a liberal to piss off Alberta even more. Then Alberta begs Trump to become the 51st state.
Yup. Although I don’t think it was really his plan to begin with because when the libs chances turned sharply in March, Trump toned it down to stop hurting Poilievre. However now that a green social justice machavellian is in charge, Trump will happily take Alberta seeing as we aren’t doing anything with it.
I suspect now that the election is over and the conservatives lost, Trump will double down on the hyperbole and turn Carney in to his personal little female dog. Take deep breaths Canada and don’t clench up, it only makes it worse.
Never stop an enemy when they are destroying themselves, or a neighboring country for that matter. That 4 lane highway from Seattle to the Yukon might be done before the highspeed rail connecting Los Angeles to Las Vegas or Sanfranwhateveritsthesedays..
The only part worth having is Alberta with their oil. With liberals in charge they’ll be ready to join the US which would be a win for Trump.
They’ve been under liberal leadership for a couple of decades.
only one decade, and hating every minute of it. Stranded assets, burned churches, and ever higher carbon taxes have made Albertan’s very angry.
The only thing that kept them from revolting was the thought that it would soon be over. But now faced with 4 more years of an even more staunch advocate of Net Zero in charge, the gloves are off.
This liberal win is an existential threat to Alberta.
The liberal insanity of recent years is on another level.
nonsense the BC hydro alone could balance the national deficit, thats a lot of cannabis waiting to be properly distributed in the retail supply chain.
The entire country is swimming in cannabis so there is a glut of supply but I am doing my part to bring it back into equilibrium.
Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre lost his own seat. He was all set to be the next Prime Minister of Canada before Trump disgorged his load of offensive nonsense at our neighbors. Heck of a job, Donny!
Canadia just punched themselves in the nuts because they hate Trump. Good plan, hosers.
It would appear that the Canadian electorate are gluttons for punishment.
By the time Carney and his cadres are finished, Canadians will be begging to become “the 51st state”.
I fully agree. Although only 44% voted for this abuse, but the majority of that group are immigrants, the elderly, and poor all of which have benefited greatly from, and have little negative consequences of, that last 10 years of social justice warring.
So really they’re just voting for the abuse of middle class. Win-win for them until the gov runs out of other people’s money.
I tend to agree that Trump was on the ballot and that he needlessly provoked Canada with terms like the 51st state. Trump’s good work on border security and anti-woke stuff is now being overshadowed by his poor playbook on trade. He has limited time to change course.
I love it that Bezos is putting the tariff cost right on the price of the Amazon website.
Trump and the shite house minions call it “A hostile and political act”.
No surprise that the truth is hostile to trump and his minions.
China will not even talk to these lying idiots!
Our former unquestioned ally Canada voted to stand up to trump and its citizens are boycotting the U.S.
Worldwide, the U.S. is the laughing stock of the world and losing credibility quickly
Trump calls this “Winning”
Who does he work for?
I wonder if MAGAs are excited for the US midterms yet
Trump should have worked through his majority in Congress. But no, he had to do it by decree, by confused “shock and awe.” His style of “leadership” is indistinguishable from reality TV, and ends up menacing (to any and all, from one moment to the next) plus ludicrous. He is only impressing himself and his little circle of weird sycophants.
Trump was useful to shake off some big torpor about immigration, cultural slippage, and China. But he is close to having outlived that already, and has risen (thanks to levers given him by Project 2025 machinations, plus his hubris) to his level of incompetence.
Trump’s foreign and domestic political “shock and awe” will work about as well as W. Bush’s foreign military one did in Iraq: it dizzies everyone temporarily, but just alienates increasing numbers. We will hear no apologies from the MAGA faithful, who will, true to their prior fealty to W. Bush, switch their minds, and forget what they wrought (conveniently or just stupidly). That kind of accountability has never been their strong suit, inside the presidency or in the streets. And in both presidencies, the USA will have suffered historic losses in a time which could have been authentic, historic winning. Our loss of leadership this time around is owed to this bunch, who can’t accept anything shared whatsoever. It’s all zero-sum in Trump’s mind, always. They have to (think they can) have it all, while doing their version of tough-guy fantasizing, navel-gazing.
Yes, the world is going to abandon the USA to its lowest common denominator of people. The world is now looking to China for economic leadership. China is actively working to internationalize the renminbi. Trump marks the end of American “greatness” because his voters never really understood what actually made America great. But hey, we’ll still be able to publicly make fun of trans people! And that is so worth the loss of wealth and dignity!
give them a couple years in the Chinese embrace and they’ll be begging for a reach around from Uncle Sam..
You just can’t fix stupid.
this may be a 3d chess moment. Trump for some reason was touting Carney over Pollievre.. makes zero sense.. unless there was a deal. Touting Canada as 51st state the day of the election also seemingly would help Carney, as Canadians hate when he says that, so why would he say that if he wantedCarney to lose.. im waiting to see how this plays out
Trump can’t play 2D chess let alone 3 or 4.
Is is a blowhard and an economic illiterate
love the “Is is”!! even the owner of the site has problems with the editing tools on here..
we pontificate only to be slain by our own grammar, i deal with it every day here, there and everywhere.
Still a hundred days is not the entire measure of the man, why not wait for the 3rd act to talk in absolutes? The plot is still developing..
More like three dimensional whack-a-mole.
For the most part he’s been a disappointment so far.
nope. border/deportations similar to what Obama did right, CDC/FDA/NIH appointments already making headway, shrinking the administrative state and the accompanying whaling from the entitled brats living in DC who said nothing during covid layoffs.
The tariff mess is mostly a failure because it’s not clear what the goal is.
i’d rather the whitehouse be vacant for a decade versus our current war mongering zion don schizo and the previous war mongering genocidal joe biden maniac.
you’ll be ok. Breathe into a paper sack for a few minutes. The room will stop spinning.
EU & UK defy Trump. Sign own trade deal.
https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-eu-defy-trump-free-open-trade-declaration/
Lol….it almost looks like Trump is getting the UK back in the EU. oh the irony.
Winning! /s
This what happens (worse to come) when you vote for and elect a mentally ill person to the highest office. FAFO !
Did not know that Carney suffers from mental illness. Good luck Canada!
shame really he seems normal when compared to the cross dressing shoplifter that was working in the DOE for Biden. Sam BrintonAmerican nuclear waste disposal expert.
Well canadians know what kind of crazy they like in a ruler…
China trade surplus is one trillion dollars. 25% of that is with the US. Trump’s Monroe doctrine and the EU can stop China mercantilism. The EU will produce more stuff internally. They need Russia for that. Russia small economy is squeezed between two powerful superstates: the EU and China. Putin can benefit by being nice to the US and the EU, after Biden sent him to the Iranians arms and to China. He might be back in the G-7. The US and the European might invest both in Russia and Ukraine, to stop China and Turkey mercantilism.
If Trump had your astuteness and focus, we might get somewhere. But I think you are giving him far too much credit.
too much credit is what got us into this mess…
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told WSJ in a statement about Trump’s move to ease the pain for automakers:
In a separate statement to Bloomberg, Lutnick said:
ONLY ONE question
how is Trump’s sphincter taste?
so Trump returned things (more or less ) how they were before tariffs idiocy
and now it is victory?
jesus!
Does this translate to:
“Trump is an idiot and declared these tariffs without a plan and now has caved in completely. We sure wish we could return to our former trading relationships and get our credibility back.”
We do not know how to get China to talk to us though, it seems they are holding all the face cards at this time and all we have is the Orange Joker!
it does for sure!
China is a house of cards that needs the US market. China has virtually no oil and not enough food even with a declining population. Chinese state numbers are wrong and guess which side they skew? Internal consumption is too low. China has no face cards.
The US is a house of cards, It needs a shitload of stuff from China such as rare earth elements that only China has.
And if you bothered to think, Trump has midterm elections to worry about and China doesnt
Macron stole Bombardier. China got it for free.Trump Bullies Canada, sending the second Pierre home. Trump 25% tariffs will destroy Canada car Industry and her banks. If Carney fights back it will be nasty for both sides. Canada is squeezed between Russia and the US, two powerful nations, protected by the US as a NATO member. The carrot: if Carney becomes friendly the US will invest in their energy sector, build pipelines and beef up their defense industries. Canada is too liberal and pacifist. Foreign entities and gangs are out of control in Canada. Canada has problems with Trump and Modi.
Vastly smarter for Canada to turn to China as their major trading partner. China needs Canada’s vast natural resources and has the technology to make the necessary investments. America is too unreliable and ignorant.
surely sleeping with chairman mao can’t have any bad repercussions, what a great idea. The Chinese already own British Columbia, so they’ve made more than a fair down payment.
If you thought importing Indians was problematic, wait for the Chinese Gang wars and the Chinese Bankers, can’t tell them apart without a program…
I don’t think it’s bad for Canada that the liberal party won, in fact i think Carney’s goal of making Canada more independent of the U.S. & forging a more diverse economy is a good one. Any leader/admin that has taken such lawless and unconstitutional actions at the peril of their citizens as this one would alarm any country that values democracy and lawful adherence to their constitution. Treating citizens & career gov’t officials as enemies of the state is exceedingly discouraging to observers who value these things. I congratulate Canada.
The bubble that created Trump is the reason he’s stumblingThe White House is now a bubble where loyalty, not ability, defines success. Opinion | Trump’s second term is trapped inside the bubble it built – The Washington Post (archive.ph)
I think Trump put another liberal country wrecker in charge so he gets a better deal on the 51st state.
with a little effort we can probably get it for less than we paid for Alaska, but the cleanup is gonna take decades. Maybe USAID can get started on the brainwashing NGO’s to soften things up a bit. Viktoria Newland where are you when we need you ????
Unlike the current administration of USA, Canada is run following our legislated laws, through a process of democracy. When you state that the out come of the Federal Canadian election was “bad for Canadians”, some times that is what happens in a democracy. How can any American be critical of a foreign election, with what happened in the last two Federal elections in USA. The party leader of the losing party in Canada, immediately congratulated Mr. Carney for winning. What a novel idea. When did that last happen in USA ?
I can’t even remember the last time Carney ran for office in the United States, let alone whether anyone congratulated him..
The US routinely disapproves and impugns the results of elections in foreign countries. They only embrace it when some US boot-licking comprador gets in somehow.
Like his first administration, the Trump-Turd-Touch™ is real. Everything Trump touches turns to turd.
Trumps economic policy = Turdonomics™
Trumps foreign policy = Turdactional™ foreign policy
And it’s all taking us to the Trumpocalypse™
America can’t take any more winning and the mid-terms can’t get here fast enough. America is ready for 3rd impeachment.
https://www.axios.com/2025/04/28/articles-of-impeachment-trump-shri-thanedar
Just wait till store shelves across America are empty.
Mark the date, MAGA is over.
it is called = Midas on Potomac policy =
(c) me
:)))
When the store shelves go empty impeachment may not be necessary.
They won’t go empty. Trump will have long since caved on everything. Harvard’s already kicked his ass on the woke stuff and the rest of America will just go back. He’s only sent a few thousand immigrants back out of millions and that will get less over time. Like his first administration, it will only take a few months before he completely face plants. Nothing much will change except less wealth and the utter embarrassment of being an American when traveling overseas. I’m getting a t-shirt with a big red maple leaf and practicing my Canadian accent.
I wouldn’t be so negative – I think this backlash to Trump is not a full on swing to leftish policies. While Mark Carney obviously has a big history in promoting green policies I suspect he is going to really tone down this and go after pragmatic wins.
In the UK, there is a realisation that idealistic policies don’t work for normal people and if the centre doesn’t do something about it they will be made irrelevant. Some news articles today about Blackrock investing in the UK as the penny appears to have dropped with the UK government that growth doesn’t come from regulation.
Perhaps Trump was the medicine we needed (however distasteful).
Most Americans vote on personality rather than policy. If you presented most liberal policies as coming from Trump and the republican party I think most voters would approve.
Tariffs are a traditionally leftist policy as well as standing by social security and Medicare. Leftists are also traditionally anti-war. Trump Republicans are essentially New Deal Democrats even with the old racism (anti-DEI) thrown in.
Another good swift kick in the nuts for trump and his bullying team of nitwits.
Isolating America is not a great strategy for being able to export anything. China is rejecting U.S. LNG shipments and diverting them back to sea. Two weeks ago the U.S. loaded 129 billion cu ft of natural gas onto ships. Last week that number fell to 109 billion cu ft just as higher capacity came on line. That is a 20% drop thanks to trump.
Volvo’s truck division in the U.S. let go of 800 workers, citing a sharp drop in demand and an uncertain future.
As with his mis-management of covid, trump is bringing American trade to a standstill.
Trump is not negotiating with China or Japan and his statement that everyone is calling me and “kissing my ass” is pure bullshit.
Deport trump!
good to see everyone here is as rational as ever.
well see you in a week and we can catch up on the madness du jour and have a reason to be angry together and continue to enjoy these special moments…
Expect to see a lot more of this among our former allies. Candidates who promise to stand up to Trump will be well rewarded by their voters.
Elections have consequences and this one is especially important as one of the worlds premier bankers has been elected to stand up to trumps economic and physical threats.
Unlike trump, Carney has connections all over the world and is dedicated to building economic networks. Canada is now preparing to export its oil and lumber to markets around the world as the U.S. falls into a severe recession.
Like all nations that relied on a stable U.S. government Canada will reach out to others since we are no longer a trusted ally.
Peace and prosperity is a thing of the past for many thanks to trump…
Elections have consequences!
So a quick recap from Canada:
1) Carney hasn’t won the election yet, because absent a majority, he will either have to tack right or tack left to stay in power
a) The tack right will be more government spending, more unfunded tax cuts and more military spending
b) The tack left will be more government spending, more unfunded tax cuts and more social spending
c) You won’t really know until 3-4am EST so calm down folks
2) the youth vote has theoretically moved right because a) the Liberals managed to ruin one of the best run immigration systems in the world but putting the Dunning-Kruger’s at McKinsey in charge of immigration, who decided that Canada’s population should magically rise to 100 million and b) because the poor saps believed the road to wealth and economic prosperity is via home ownership.
Like our American cousins, we have multiple generations peppered with a plurality who find things like productivity, skill and ability to be somewhere between perplexing and incomprehensible as concepts. Imagine attempting to introduce accountability and responsibility. The majority are thus required to carry the heavy burden of the plurality.
3) Carney is a Goldman Sachs alumni through and through which means we just elected Alan Greenspan to run Canada. Or, more succinctly, the oligarchs who actually run Canada got tired of trying to influence a light-weight PM with subtlety and just decided to replace him with one of their own guys.
4) Alberta won’t separate or be integrated into the US. Ditto for Quebec. Goldmans will be too busy kicking Trump in the gonads for the mid-terms; the message will be simple, give us corporate tax cuts, stop playing with tariffs and anti-trust or be placed in a monkey cage for your last 2 years. In return, you’ll get immunity from the GS appointed President (let’s pretend that there’s a difference between the Dems Prez and the demi-Dems Prez for entertainment purposes) who follows, and boat-loads of cash… or maybe just keep the shit you’ve already stolen.
5) Folks, Alberta is about the size of Afghanistan with similar terrain and even more punishing weather. You get everything you want from the place, at a discount, from people who say please and thank you when you fleece them for their crude. Which they gladly repurchase, at a premium after you value add (refine) it. They’ll sell you a hunting license, let you camp and RV there for cheap and even return the pittance you pay in federal sales tax, if you ask nicely and don’t mind red tape. Sweet Jesus you would make Bush Jr. look like a genius if you attempted to annex/invade the place.
Take it easy, nothing in Canada has actually changed; they’ve flipped some pieces on a checkers set and pretended the game is chess.
Alberta is gorgeous….just saying.
This is one of those events in history that in retrospect will have marked the end of an era. What era it ended and what comes next, it’s too early to say, but I am sure it will be interesting.
Right. Like the Zelenskyy blow up in the oval? This will be buried in a day once the liberals create the next Trump scandal. .
“once the liberals create the next Trump scandal”
Trump needs no help in creating scandals, it’s may be the only thing he’s very good at doing.
So unbelievably disappointing. The entire election platform of the Liberals was about Trump, that’s all the Canadian MSM peddled, thanks to Trump and his stupid never ending rhetoric the election was handed back to the Liberals. Trump has absolutely no filter.
Good, as I hope Carney turns Canada more into a white liberal shithole.
Wish granted. Now Trump can add more liberals to the U.S. by making it the 51st state. Turns out Trump is making the world left again. Maybe he’s been a secret liberal agent the whole time?
Who says Trump has to take all of Canada? He doesn’t want the liberal provinces he wants the resource rich provinces. It’s a win/win for both countries. The libs think they got a win by making Canada more liberal. And the rest of Canada wins by becoming the 51st state.
Well he better hurry up and do it, the impeachment clock is ticking….so is the democratic congress takeover. tick…tick…tick…
Ready for dejavu all over again?
He’s already been impeached twice. The only thing the dems have to show for it is four more years of Trump.
Canada is going to especially lose from this election.
Whatever Carney does on the economic front with the US isn’t going to matter much when he isn’t going to change any of the liberal polices that matter (unbounded immigration that’s caused a housing affordability crises and health care serves crisis, a continuation of the net zero carbon policies that include high carbon taxes and non-investment in oil/gas and green boondoggles). Those are the policies that have caused the Canadian standard of living to drop and nothing is going to change there. So no matter what he does or doesn’t do with Trump, things are only going to get worse in Canada.
I feel sorry for my family and fellow Canadians who have no idea that things are going to get much worse in the next 4 years.
Forgot to mention that if the energy policies don’t change (and I doubt they are going to) that there is going to be a rising separatist movement in the West that Carney is going to have to deal with during his time in power. Possibly to the point of a vote like the ones Quebec had in the 70s and 90s because the US (ie Trump) would welcome the oil/gas rich provinces with open arms and lots of investment money.
The Canadians are grownups I assume so if they want a socialist they can vote for one. I rather doubt that Trump had much to do with it because the Conservatives were just as hard on Trump’s words as Carney. The fact is that Quebec because of its French statist roots will always vote to the Left. Add that to the English-speakers who are naturally predisposed to vote Left makes Canada durably socialist and we must work with that. It doesn’t mean we should give them special economic privileges with counterparties but we should expect Canada to fall further behind. At some point it will need economic assistance if their policies continue.
“At some point it will need economic assistance if their policies continue.”
Lol. I think it’s the US that is in desperate need of economic assistance no? If not, then why the tariff and trade wars if everything is so awesome?
Canada doesn’t have 80m geezer socialists on social programs eating up the budget either but I’m sure you knew that already.
Your comments have become progressively more incoherent lately. Is it due to Trump or is there a personal reason?
There is nothing incoherent about my comment but if you’re having difficulty understanding please seek medical help. France has very good healthcare. I suggest tests for Alzheimer’s and dementia.
A man of your statue, knowledge, experience shouldn’t be having difficulty nor resorting to cheap shots. Seek help immediately, you may be having a stroke too. It does happen as one ages.
Carney is a central banker, not a socialist. In fact the socialist party (NDP) was essentially wiped out in this election.
Canadians have decided to let a central banker run their economy hoping he can fix things but as I noted, his party isn’t going to allow any meaningful changes (immigration, energy, green etc) that would allow that to happen.
It’s going to be really interesting to see him attempt to ‘sell’ his ideas to Canadians given he has no real political skills (speaking/charming).
I wish Midnight were still here, he loves to rub the will of the people in everyone’s faces so how do you like them Canadian apples?
He is a cowboy and decided to return to Times Square.
Yup. carney will continue to run Canada into the ground. So now Trump will get Canada at a much better price.
and?!? The Canucks just flucked themselves over! Boo hoo so sad too bad. I have no sympathy anymore.
A stupid comment – which you would understand if you bothered to either read or think.