CAN-USA 2025 Tariff Strife (split from various pol threads)

[MilEME09]

Sounds like we need some savy business person. Someone who ran a large corporation, maybe even the CDN side of a large US corporation and thins like them, has experience in how they do business.
Sounds like we need another Mulroney….maybe even a Paul Martin Jr…..sadly we have no one like this currently.

Nope but we will get a mark carney, who worked at Goldman Sachs, chair and head of impact investing at Brookfield Asset Management and as chair of the board of directors for Bloomberg L.P., bank of Canda governor, bank of England governor, and chair of the financial stability board. Still an impressive list when we need someone who understands economics.

 

[OldSolduer]

Wab Kinew’s been surprising. The NDP is not at all to my taste, but his political career will be interesting to watch. I hope we see him move to federal politics in time.

He's not been bad - Health Care here is under fire - like it is everywhere.

It was said in the olde days of the USSR that the Minister of Agriculture in Olde Soviet Union had the most thankless task in the country.

Same with Health Care in Manitoba

 

[QV]

Nope but we will get a mark carney, who worked at Goldman Sachs, chair and head of impact investing at Brookfield Asset Management and as chair of the board of directors for Bloomberg L.P., bank of Canda governor, bank of England governor, and chair of the financial stability board. Still an impressive list when we need someone who understands economics.

Carney will cause untold damage.

He is Trudeau with a tighter haircut and higher IQ.

 

[Czech_pivo]

Nope but we will get a mark carney, who worked at Goldman Sachs, chair and head of impact investing at Brookfield Asset Management and as chair of the board of directors for Bloomberg L.P., bank of Canda governor, bank of England governor, and chair of the financial stability board. Still an impressive list when we need someone who understands economics.

Understanding Economics and understanding Business are not the same and shouldn’t be confused as being one and the same.
One is ‘theory’ and one is ‘actual’.
Can’t think of many Economists that come to mind who run or have run S&P 500 companies or TSX 60 companies.

 

[brihard]

Good example of domestic pushback against tariffs on Canada from U.S. lobby groups. Canada supplies most of the potash used as fertilizer by the U.S. agricultural sector. This is one where they’re going to self-inflict some pain. It will be further exacerbated by losing some market share in Canadian agricultural imports.

U.S. fertilizer industry seeking tariff exemption for potash and nitrogen from Canada

The organization that represents U.S. fertilizer producers, wholesalers, and retailers is calling on the Trump administration to exempt Canadian fertilizer products from the tariffs set to take effect on Feb. 4. “The Fertilizer Institute stands ready to collaborate with the Trump Administration...

www.realagriculture.com

 

[Czech_pivo]

He's not been bad - Health Care here is under fire - like it is everywhere.

It was said in the olde days of the USSR that the Minister of Agriculture in Olde Soviet Union had the most thankless task in the country.

Same with Health Care in Manitoba

Just as a side note, Gorbachev was Minister of Agriculture in the old SU before becoming numéro uno.
Things in the old didn’t turn out to well for him….

 

[MilEME09]

Understanding Economics and understanding Business are not the same and shouldn’t be confused as being one and the same.
One is ‘theory’ and one is ‘actual’.
Can’t think of many Economists that come to mind who run or have run S&P 500 companies or TSX 60 companies.

Maybe so but understanding monetary policy is important. Compared to the CPC shadow cabinet where we have Pierre who is a career politician and the shadow finance minister who built houses.

 

[Czech_pivo]

Understanding Economics and understanding Business are not the same and shouldn’t be confused as being one and the same.
One is ‘theory’ and one is ‘actual’.
Can’t think of many Economists that come to mind who run or have run S&P 500 companies or TSX 60 companies.

In a fair number of universities Economics is found within the Faculty of Science - not within the Faculty of Business…

 

[Cloud Cover]

JD Vance coming in Hot … and it’s ugly for the policy missteps of Canadian Team Red:

 

[Czech_pivo]

Maybe so but understanding monetary policy is important. Compared to the CPC shadow cabinet where we have Pierre who is a career politician and the shadow finance minister who built houses.

Carney would be an excellent Minister of Finance -

 

[Czech_pivo]

Maybe so but understanding monetary policy is important. Compared to the CPC shadow cabinet where we have Pierre who is a career politician and the shadow finance minister who built houses.

And building houses is ALOT more in tune that our last Min of Fin who was a journalist…

 

[OldSolduer]

Maybe so but understanding monetary policy is important. Compared to the CPC shadow cabinet where we have Pierre who is a career politician and the shadow finance minister who built houses.

And if memory serves me correctly JT was a part time substitute drama teacher. Freeland was a journalist.

The best cabinet minister he had he fired when she schooled him on the law.

 

[Cloud Cover]

Carney would be an excellent Minister of Finance -

Actually no, I don’t think so. He’s never even managed the books of a small business and probably never even put together a business plan.
He’s been the hand selected for senior management type pretty much his entire working career. With Carney you get a Green Reich Rolodex, not a finance minister.

 

[daftandbarmy]

Actually no, I don’t think so. He’s never even managed the books of a small business and probably never even put together a business plan.
He’s been the hand selected for senior management type pretty much his entire working career. With Carney you get a Green Reich Rolodex, not a finance minister.

He's never won an election, anywhere, anytime, either...

 

[Czech_pivo]

Actually no, I don’t think so. He’s never even managed the books of a small business and probably never even put together a business plan.
He’s been the hand selected for senior management type pretty much his entire working career. With Carney you get a Green Reich Rolodex, not a finance minister.

Paul Martin Jr never managed the books of a small business and he was head and shoulders among the top 2 or 3 Min of Finance we’ve had.

 

[Fishbone Jones]

Calling Musk the president is a deliberate plot to insinuate that Trump isn't in charge, to get under his skin.

Much as you'd call Russians Nekulturny, calling Trump a second-rater or subordinate to someone else is a tool to help you make him lose control.

GOP Jesus. Anyone outside his mindset is a racist.

Irving... working weekends to keep up to date...

https://twitter.com/x/status/1886102854487650733

Exactly the same way Carney's new carbon scam will work. He'll take the tax off the consumer, but punish corporations. The corporations won't take the hit. They'll pass it on to the purchaser. Just like they always have. So, while we're not paying a carbon tax, we're still paying the carbon tax. Pure gaslighting from Carney and the liberals.

 

[Eaglelord17]

We should slowly start cutting off the power we supply to the eastern seaboard. Do something like a hour a day (with lots of warning as to when it is happening), slowly extending the amount of time it takes.

We would have to be careful with that though, they might actually see that as a existential threat.

 

[OldSolduer]

We should slowly start cutting off the power we supply to the eastern seaboard. Do something like a hour a day (with lots of warning as to when it is happening), slowly extending the amount of time it takes.

We would have to be careful with that though, they might actually see that as a existential threat.

We don’t need the 101st Airborne to seize vital infrastructure. Poking the bear would not be wise

 

[Fishbone Jones]

Nope but we will get a mark carney, who worked at Goldman Sachs, chair and head of impact investing at Brookfield Asset Management and as chair of the board of directors for Bloomberg L.P., bank of Canda governor, bank of England governor, and chair of the financial stability board. Still an impressive list when we need someone who understands economics.

His monetary policies and his net zero zealotry has trashed the economy of Britain.

Maybe so but understanding monetary policy is important. Compared to the CPC shadow cabinet where we have Pierre who is a career politician and the shadow finance minister who built houses.

And trudeau was a part time drama teachers assistant and freeland was a journalist who blew $10 million dollars of Reuters money before she was asked to resign. PP is probably the most astute politician in Parliament and most of the country is ready to give him possibly, the largest mandate in modern history.

 

[rmc_wannabe]

JD Vance coming in Hot … and it’s ugly for the policy missteps of Canadian Team Red:

None of those items are tied to the stated casus bello of "trade deficit is too high."

This shows that their messaging is all over the place and is not at all about correcting policy problems.

This is petty revenge and is amounting to the U.S. cutting off it's nose to spite it's face.