shockedcanadian
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The warnings I provided to Canada go back two decades. The S.I.C wouldn't abandon their choke hold on our budgets and economy. From the lowly TPS on up to the OPP and RCMP, they have decimated our reputation and represented a national security threat against America.
As I remind them via email "I hope it was worth it". I can't imagine how many other whistleblowers have been destroyed. Now the golden goose we had in place is going to dissipate. If Japan had been located where Canada is, with a Free Trade agreement and same population, our economy would be at least twice as large, probably three times as large.
Now the shift will be permanent and the rest of world will cut into our market share. I know which agencies WON'T be impacted. They spit on the graves of good men who fought fascism and for our liberty.
Hey, why listen to me, a guy who has been an open book when you can listen to career government employees who milk their constituents with $100 an hour OT gigs and $200k a year salaries as plain clothed cops!?
www.thestar.com
OTTAWA — President Donald Trump’s envoy to Canada says some level of American tariffs on Canadian products is the new normal, holding out only slim hope that direct talks between Trump and Prime Minister Mark Carney could see them lifted entirely.
U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra said in an interview with the Star that the president and U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick are deep into private discussions with Canada to establish what Carney calls a new economic and security relationship, and said Trump and Lutnick indicated “tariffs are a part of the framework moving forward.”
The American president could change tariff levels “at any time for any country that they are negotiating with,” Hoekstra said. Depending on how discussions — that Premier Doug Ford described Thursday as “right the brink” — with Canada land, Hoekstra said “maybe” tariffs could be lifted, but “at this point in time, I believe that they have said it will, it is, part of the framework moving forward.”
“So this is discussing the level of tariffs, how broad they apply and these kinds of things,” he said, “not getting to zero.”
The U.S. ambassador first publicly revealed to an Empire Club audience in Toronto earlier this week the president and Carney had been having regular direct conversations since their May 6 meeting in Washington in addition to a series of meetings that are being held between Lutnick and Carney’s Canada-U.S. minister, Dominic LeBlanc, and their officials.
Federal Politics
The Prime Minister’s Office, which did not publish notices or readouts of those conversations, did not reply to the Star’s questions earlier this week about their talks. A senior Canadian official, speaking on condition they not be identified in order to discuss the confidential talks, confirmed the leader-level discussions, but declined to say if they communicated by phone or text, or to characterize the tone.
The goal, said the source who has knowledge of the talks, is to reach agreement by the time Trump comes to Canada on June 15 for the Group of Seven leaders’ summit in Kananaskis, Alta. That’s why the prime minister declined to immediately retaliate after Trump hiked crippling 25 per cent steel and aluminum tariffs to 50 per cent on Wednesday.
Hoekstra hailed Carney’s move as “very encouraging,” and discussed the objective of the Trump-Carney calls in a wide-ranging interview at the embassy in the nation’s capital Thursday in which he frowned on the “anti-American” rhetoric that dominated both major political parties’ election campaigns.
The former businessman, congressman and ambassador to the Netherlands in Trump’s first term said the leaders’ conversations are establishing the framework for further negotiations on trade to follow but would not say if that would replace or supersede a review of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico deal scheduled for next year. He portrayed the current discussions as the more difficult of the two.
As I remind them via email "I hope it was worth it". I can't imagine how many other whistleblowers have been destroyed. Now the golden goose we had in place is going to dissipate. If Japan had been located where Canada is, with a Free Trade agreement and same population, our economy would be at least twice as large, probably three times as large.
Now the shift will be permanent and the rest of world will cut into our market share. I know which agencies WON'T be impacted. They spit on the graves of good men who fought fascism and for our liberty.
Hey, why listen to me, a guy who has been an open book when you can listen to career government employees who milk their constituents with $100 an hour OT gigs and $200k a year salaries as plain clothed cops!?
Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canada are likely here to stay, U.S. ambassador insists
Meanwhile, slim hope remains that direct talks between Trump and Prime Minister Mark Carney could see tariffs lifted.
www.thestar.com
OTTAWA — President Donald Trump’s envoy to Canada says some level of American tariffs on Canadian products is the new normal, holding out only slim hope that direct talks between Trump and Prime Minister Mark Carney could see them lifted entirely.
U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra said in an interview with the Star that the president and U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick are deep into private discussions with Canada to establish what Carney calls a new economic and security relationship, and said Trump and Lutnick indicated “tariffs are a part of the framework moving forward.”
The American president could change tariff levels “at any time for any country that they are negotiating with,” Hoekstra said. Depending on how discussions — that Premier Doug Ford described Thursday as “right the brink” — with Canada land, Hoekstra said “maybe” tariffs could be lifted, but “at this point in time, I believe that they have said it will, it is, part of the framework moving forward.”
“So this is discussing the level of tariffs, how broad they apply and these kinds of things,” he said, “not getting to zero.”
The U.S. ambassador first publicly revealed to an Empire Club audience in Toronto earlier this week the president and Carney had been having regular direct conversations since their May 6 meeting in Washington in addition to a series of meetings that are being held between Lutnick and Carney’s Canada-U.S. minister, Dominic LeBlanc, and their officials.
Federal Politics
Canada ‘will take some time’ before responding to Trump tariff increases, Mark Carney says
The Prime Minister’s Office, which did not publish notices or readouts of those conversations, did not reply to the Star’s questions earlier this week about their talks. A senior Canadian official, speaking on condition they not be identified in order to discuss the confidential talks, confirmed the leader-level discussions, but declined to say if they communicated by phone or text, or to characterize the tone.
The goal, said the source who has knowledge of the talks, is to reach agreement by the time Trump comes to Canada on June 15 for the Group of Seven leaders’ summit in Kananaskis, Alta. That’s why the prime minister declined to immediately retaliate after Trump hiked crippling 25 per cent steel and aluminum tariffs to 50 per cent on Wednesday.
Hoekstra hailed Carney’s move as “very encouraging,” and discussed the objective of the Trump-Carney calls in a wide-ranging interview at the embassy in the nation’s capital Thursday in which he frowned on the “anti-American” rhetoric that dominated both major political parties’ election campaigns.
The former businessman, congressman and ambassador to the Netherlands in Trump’s first term said the leaders’ conversations are establishing the framework for further negotiations on trade to follow but would not say if that would replace or supersede a review of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico deal scheduled for next year. He portrayed the current discussions as the more difficult of the two.
