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

[The Bread Guy]

They should enlist Harper to go sit down with Trump. He is certainly a better diplomat, to explain our stance, than the current crop of clowns.

Heard crazier ideas ....

 

[QV]

The current crop only highlights what an unserious country with a weak position we are. The American's are smirking.

 

[JLB50]

Heard crazier ideas ....

I’ve never been a fan of Harper but I was pleased to see that he is definitely pro-Canada when it comes to Trump. (Paywall may apply with accompanying Toronto Star article.)

Stephen Harper says Canada should ‘accept any level of damage’ to fight back against Donald Trump

Speaking at the launch of his latest history book, “Flags of Canada,” former prime minister Stephen Harper welcomed a surge in Canadian nationalism.

www.thestar.com

 

[JLB50]

The current crop only highlights what an unserious country with a weak position we are. The American's are smirking.

I disagree. What makes them smirk the most are those Canadians who fold easily and don’t have the emotional stamina to stand up to them.

 

[Quirky]

He is certainly a better diplomat, to explain our stance, than the current crop of clowns.

Which clowns, the Fed government or Team Canada that's currently in Washington holding pointless news conferences talking into empty space?

 

[Halifax Tar]

Which clowns, the Fed government or Team Canada that's currently in Washington holding pointless news conferences talking into empty space?

To some, to be seen to be doing something, is as or more important than actually doing something.

 

[The Bread Guy]

To some, to be seen to be doing something, is as or more important than actually doing something.

There's ALWAYS a "Yes, Minister" quote ....

 

[Fishbone Jones]

I disagree. What makes them smirk the most are those Canadians who fold easily and don’t have the emotional stamina to stand up to them.

Team Trudeau it is then.

 

[JLB50]

Team Trudeau it is then.

I hope it’s Team Canada. At least Poilievre, Harper and many other politicians of various political stripes are in basic unity with the steps that must be taken.

 

[Fishbone Jones]

Which clowns, the Fed government or Team Canada that's currently in Washington holding pointless news conferences talking into empty space?

The feds are the only ones in that position. I won't include provincial premiers in this because both Ford and Smith are actually actively engaging the Americans on behalf of their provinces.

Trudeau with his "They're really coming for us. They're going to annex us" shtick is the sign of a sick minded scaremonger. Someone who is trying to ramp up fear and anxiety in a population already wondering what's going on. They won't let anyone in on their agenda. They should have convened a Committee of all parties to work on this. What are they hiding?

 

[Fishbone Jones]

I’ve never been a fan of Harper but I was pleased to see that he is definitely pro-Canada when it comes to Trump. (Paywall may apply with accompanying Toronto Star article.)

Stephen Harper says Canada should ‘accept any level of damage’ to fight back against Donald Trump

Speaking at the launch of his latest history book, “Flags of Canada,” former prime minister Stephen Harper welcomed a surge in Canadian nationalism.

www.thestar.com

He's a well respected economist around the world. Much more so than Carney. He can sit and explain the nuts, bolts and immediate and long range impacts, on both countries, in terms even Trump can understand. Carney is just an investment banker who looks for deals to make money.

 

[Fishbone Jones]

I hope it’s Team Canada. At least Poilievre, Harper and many other politicians of various political stripes are in basic unity with the steps that must be taken.

There is no Team Canada. The only ones allowed to make decisions are the liberals. Everyone else is individually voicing concerns and saying what they would do.

A Team Canada would be leaders and others from all parties participating in a single minded, purposeful approach to the problem.

All we have is Team Trudeau.

 

[Remius]

He's a well respected economist around the world. Much more so than Carney. He can sit and explain the nuts, bolts and immediate and long range impacts, on both countries, in terms even Trump can understand. Carney is just an investment banker who looks for deals to make money.

I get that you don’t particularly like Carney but his credentials are somewhat more extensive that just being an investment banker.

What is Harper currently doing other than heading his own consulting company and being employed by the CPC fundraiser machine? Not trying to knock him or anything but his CV post PM is thinner than his pre PM career.

And remember that Harper named Carney Governor of the BoC for reasons that went beyond being a simple investment banker.

 

[Halifax Tar]

He's a well respected economist around the world. Much more so than Carney. He can sit and explain the nuts, bolts and immediate and long range impacts, on both countries, in terms even Trump can understand. Carney is just an investment banker who looks for deals to make money.

Harper is the PM we stopped deserving.

 

[Remius]

Harper is the PM we stopped deserving.

And yet after 10 years he too became a tired and mostly done with gvt.

 

[JLB50]

And yet after 10 years he too became a tired and mostly done with gvt.

In fairness it happens to virtually every party that’s in power for very long. Which is why I like to see government’s fall after at least five or six years…eight max. I never like to see too strong a majority. Slim majority is better.

 

[suffolkowner]

And yet after 10 years he too became a tired and mostly done with gvt.

In fairness it happens to virtually every party that’s in power for very long. Which is why I like to see government’s fall after at least five or six years…eight max. I never like to see too strong a majority. Slim majority is better.

theres no rule that one has to quit and take your ball home just because you lost an election. Thats a choice and maybe a modern behaviour

 

[Halifax Tar]

And yet after 10 years he too became a tired and mostly done with gvt.

So we agree then ?

 

[Remius]

So we agree then ?

That he was leading a tired and done with gvt? Yes.

 

[MilEME09]

'Any level of damage': How far Stephen Harper would go to keep an independent Canada

The former prime minister talked about how far he would be willing to go to keep Canada from becoming the 51st state.

nationalpost.com