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

[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.

 

[Cloud Cover]

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.

He had much better help than Carney will ever have because the purpose of Chrétiens first mandate was to cut, cut and cut and not performatively act restrained while racking up deficits. And to be very clear, any government in power at that time would have had to do the same hence the old saying “Stay Alive til 95”. There is (or was) a fair bit of academic and professional opinion that the budgets of 1994 and 1995 were the most profound public policy events in Canadian history since Confederation because there was wide acceptance that there is no bottomless pit if spending and taxation. That notion died completely in Parliament in November 2015 and we have been sunk ever since.

 

[MilEME09]

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

Brexit had a bigger influence on that than anything else, and many economists have stayed Britain would of been worse off without him.

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

Never said either were the best picks either, but if we want someone who understands economics, the current cpc isn't it. Out of anyone with any economic sense we have a couple mortgage brokers, a couple with masters in economics, but not much else. No one with the experience running a major company that would help. Imfact the majority are career politicians with no experience in anything outside politics which gives no favour's to the CPC.

In 2014 the CPC joke was Trudeau's "just not ready" but looking over the entire shadow cabinet I would say that about the CPC right now. The have no experience to draw upon to have strong cabinet ministers who have real world experience to draw upon that some of you are blasting carney for as a counter point to me.

 

[Fishbone Jones]

Brexit had a bigger influence on that than anything else, and many economists have stayed Britain would of been worse off without him.

Never said either were the best picks either, but if we want someone who understands economics, the current cpc isn't it. Out of anyone with any economic sense we have a couple mortgage brokers, a couple with masters in economics, but not much else. No one with the experience running a major company that would help. Imfact the majority are career politicians with no experience in anything outside politics which gives no favour's to the CPC.

In 2014 the CPC joke was Trudeau's "just not ready" but looking over the entire shadow cabinet I would say that about the CPC right now. The have no experience to draw upon to have strong cabinet ministers who have real world experience to draw upon that some of you are blasting carney for as a counter point to me.

You're seriously advocating to keep the liberals in charge of government?

 

[Good2Golf]

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.

Perhaps the time he spent running Canada Steamship Lines helped?

 

[RangerRay]

I’ve heard from a few people who were leaning Tory who are now really interested in Carney because he’s a “money guy”.

These people aren’t super partisan so don’t pay attention to this stuff like we do. They don’t pay attention to the fact that all of Trudeau’s people back him or all the “Net Zero” stuff. If you asked them what Net Zero was, they’d say it was fishing without a net. They fall in the majority of voters.

 

[McG]

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.

The Trump admin has adopted Russia’s firehose of excrement in the information domain. They spray a whole lot of conflicting messages and let the useful idiots propagate personal favourites.

Team Trump does not care about “team red” nor “team blue” in Canada. He has even made disparaging comments of both party leaders, so if you think colour of government is a factor, you are going to be disappointed with the results of any change.

The US has no legitimate grievance to avenge in Canada. So the tariffs are not revenge. They are bullying, and an effort to exert/demonstrate US dominance over smaller countries. This is also a testing the waters phase to see how much they can get away with. Will the international community rally, or can he pick apart targets piecemeal?

 

[QV]

Carney would be an excellent Minister of Finance -

He’s basically been Trudeau’s finance whisperer for some time. He is committed to offshoring energy, he is committed to the climate cult. He would be a disaster.

 

[QV]

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 an existential threat.

I think they already see a national security threat. CCP, sympathetic to Hamas, an expanding cartel run drug network….

 

[Remius]

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 an existential threat.

Despite me cheering on Ford on this not sure that is wise. Trump has a made up emergency excuse to impose tariffs we don’t want to give him real reasons to take further steps.