Ian Lee is not doing a rant. He is doing arithmetic. Canada ships about $400 billion a year to the United States. That sounds like a weapon until you put it against their economy. It is about 1.5 percent of U.S. GDP. One and a half fingers. They are... a $32 trillion machine. China is a distant second. We are just over two. A small country does not win a trade war with a large one. We do not have the cash or the cushion. Retaliation lands here first. Plants. Distilleries. The till. Not a podium in Washington. The part Ottawa will not say is the part that should enrage you. Trump did not invent the dependency. He did not ban pipelines for a decade. He did not write the $200 billion in interprovincial barriers. He did not decide we would sell almost everything south and then lecture the only customer. We did that. He found the cracks and pushed. Carney ran as the adult who could close a deal. Seventeen months later the file is a slogan and a walk-away. Elbows up polls. Arithmetic does not. Lee’s fix is not another speech in Europe. Kill the barriers between provinces. Move resources at volume. Stop pretending 1.5 percent of their GDP is a chokehold. You cannot bring the largest economy on earth to its knees with a rounding error. You can only bring your own plants to a stop and call it principle. #cdnpolishow more

The stupidity of telling your single biggest customer to take a hike is very hard to understand.

Plus the US is the least trade-dependent nation in the G7 with just 1/4 of GDP from trade. Canada is the most trade-dependent at 2/3 of GDP. And Canada supplies almost nothing except potash that the US can't produce domestically or source from elsewhere — which they are now doing. This last point is the most important because once the US adjusts its supply chains away from an increasingly hostile Canada, they are never coming back. And that massive irreplaceable loss, combined with the import of millions of poor future Liberal voters, likely condemns Canada to a dismal future.

The Canadian public is too easily led by the nose. This should have been apparent from day one. But all I ever hear is “never 51st state”! Or “elbows up”! The fools.

This magnifies two major issues in this trade war. First, Canada never had a chance and acts like Iranian IRGC in negotiations. And even though Iran's military has been pretty much obliterated, it still has more power than Canada comparatively. Second, all the Trump bloviating about Canada "ripping us off" as if anything Canada did affects anything in the U.S. economy on scale is laughable at 1.5 % of the U.S GDP. This is nothing but bullying a small neighbor next door because you don't like their politics. I get that, as half of Canada doesn't like the politics either. But it does show everyone both the stupidity of having a trade war that affects the average middle class citizen and small businesses of both countries. Neither leader cares because for Trump this is just a NY Democrat having some fun. For Carney, it is about promoting the globalist dream. Does it affect either of these two men? Not a bit, and that is the problem, if you participate in a war without any skin in the game, and neither Trump or Carney have personal skin in the game, only the average middle class citizen is hurt. But Eastern Canada and the extreme left delight in poking the bear that can destroy them. Only in Canada. There are solutions, but you would have to have common sense and skin in the game to even consider them.

Money goes were security is. Authoritarian Mark Carneys concept of a homogeneous synthetic currency with China is patently ridiculous. But he’s pursuing it anyway, Canada is the price the crown 👑 is willing to pay to break money. Say goodbye to special access to USA forever.

Maybe that’s the whole reason behind Carneys plan. Destabilizing independent industries to the brink of insolvency to then create conditions for the state or outside capitalist investors buying companies to dissolve and liquidate it like he has done his whole career.

I’ll say it again. If I didn’t have Canadian co-workers I’d have no idea there’s a “trade war” with Canada. When I tell Americans about it they think I’m kidding. Many I talk to think Trudeau is still your PM. 90%+ of us simply don’t know, let alone care.

Canada cannot even trade effectively between provinces

The solution is to get rid of the liberals. The people that caused the problem cannot be part of the solution

Canada is a lightweight and you just stepped into the ring with the Heavyweight champ and took a swing at him. What did you think was going to happen?

Carney knows this. He said THERE WILL BE SACRIFICE! He's doing this on purpose and using lies to get the CA people behind him, and they do because they have TDS. The same way Hitler did it with Jew Derangement Syndrome.

@ZacharyMcR28365 Wouldn’t it just be better to sign a good reciprocal deal to even things out a bit, and continue to diversify at the same time ?

There are a lot of salient points here. I know so many businesses having to pivot on both sides of the dispute and like the pandemic that shall not be named, structural and permanent changes are happening. Money goes where it is made and wanted

Even Canadians who seem grounded or even seem refreshingly reasonable, seem to have to interrupt themselves mid-sentence to spit out a spate of emotionally infantile anti-Trump invective, then try to resume, as if they didn’t just disqualify themselves as a credible voice. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Not trying to be a smart alek but if the analogy is to show the percentage of US GDP using 10 fingers, 1.5% isn't one and a half fingers, it's 1/10th of one and a half fingers.

It's all about saving dairy, steel, auto sectors, which is all Ontario and Quebec. They seem to be willing to sacrifice all others to save what is unsaveable.

It’s like a Tim Horton employee with no life saving Playing Poker with Elon Musk . If you don’t know who will win you don’t Play poker

And our exports to the US account for 20% of our gdp. If you can't all trade with the US, it's 40% of our gdp. That accounts for two thirds of all trade that Canada does.

Its ok the Carney cum guzzlars are completely convinced the USA needs us more than we need them. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

9/25/26 ECONOMIC DEPRESSION INCOMING FOR CANADA 🇨🇦 When ? Sooner than you think.

They had negotiations and it was all ready to go then Canada blew it up in the last hours. Get tid of these liberals

Ban everything except anything from Alberta….. your little wet beta Carney wants Canada to go down in flames

None of the items in the negotiations were "giving away the farm". They were all reasonable requests for lower tariffs on both side, and for ensuring Chinese subsidized metals weren't being dumped in Canada to drive American companies out of business.

I’d like to point out that the numbers discussed by Mr Lee are also tracked on the southern side of the border, we do it with all the nations we trade with. Trust me, we can Short Canada a lot longer than you can go Long EU and China. Have a nice day.

I fully support a trade embargo with Canada until they learn some gratitude for their God- given luck of being born next to the greatest country that’s ever existed. They are a bunch of ingrates. Enjoy the recession, fellas. You asked for it.

This is so dead on and Ian states it very well!!

Canadians need to understand the only people talking about this are the liberal canadians who have a Psyop happening to them in real time.. None of this is in american media.. The only place I see anything about Canada is on this app with the canadian anti american hate

Canadian politicians are like tiny Chihuahuas barking at the General Sherman at the Sequoia National park.

Oh boy

Carney better tuck his fucking tail between his legs and crawl to Trump and beg for a fucking deal , whatever deal the US is willing to give us at this point. OR CANADA IS FUCKED.

Canada happily built the systems they are now sinking in. They are to blame, not Trump.

People aren’t going to forget who the feckless traitorous taints were who were cheering on Canada to fail. Canada will survive and you’ll be the pond scum you truly are.

Talk to Papa Trump!