Tariffs with no plan

August 3^rd, 2025

It is Sunday, and Canada now has debilitating tariffs with no escape plan.  It was the worst week for Canada since the October 19, 2015 election.  The Canadian negotiating team has retuned home from Washington DC empty handed.  The evidence is stark.  Carney and company were the wrong political choice to advance Canada’s general prosperity, public safety, and social cohesion. 

Mark Carney and company have failed in the Canada-US trade negotiations, resulting in steep tariffs, internal economic damage, and completely stalled talks with the USA. Liberal philosophy and trade policies, including the ‘elbows-up’ retaliation, made Canada’s plight worse.  Trade talks with Donald Trump have collapsed, and the Liberals have no answer for the tariffs, or the domestic situation.  Canada’s negotiators blew the trade deal, and Mark Carney's leadership is making it worse.

Trump refused to take Carney’s calls, in view of the 35% tariffs on non-USMCA goods.  The last pipeline company is moving to the U.S.  Canada has dug itself deep into the economic hole.  Liberal policies of the retaliatory tariffs, the digital services tax, and the ‘Palestinian debacle’ made the situation worse.

Trade negotiations have completely stalled and Canadian industry leaders are perplexed.  Premier Doug Ford wants to further retaliate, while Premier Scott Moe is calling for cooperative maneuvering.  However, Carney seems immobilized as the Liberals have nothing to offer.

Canada now has a 35% tariff on electric vehicles and other goods, hurting our economy.  That is the whole point of tariffs −economic advantage.  The Carney team had a chance to renegotiate, but instead they doubled down on ‘elbows up’ and ‘Palestine’.

The cancelling of the digital services tax gained nothing in return.  The US call, is to drop the $30 billion in counter-tariffs.  Canada’s bargaining leverage has evaporated and there is no alternative planned.

The pipeline industry is leaving as the ‘all talk no action’ on pipelines caused Enbridge to move south.  While Trudeau and Carney have scolded about climate goals and ‘green technology’, Canada hemorrhages economic activity and international credibility.  The Liberals talk about progress, but instead the evidence is steep decline.

The situation is more than trade policy; it’s about whether Canada is taken seriously in the global market.  The US made the hurdles clear −retaliate against the US and Canada pays.

Mark Carney has been shut out diplomatically.  Additionally, we have internal issues of housing, inflation, and the collapse of confidence in our Justice System.  The Liberal ideology has failed at home and abroad.

There’s still time to change course.  But it won’t happen unless Canadians speak up and demand that Opposition Parties band together just one time for a single accountability vote to pull Canada back from the brink.  That is, to vote ‘non-confidence’ at the first opportunity to trigger an election.

Carney has played into Trump’s passive aggressive recalcitrance, instead of moving forward with collaborative objective building.  Carney and his cohorts have an ethereal leftie ideology that is useless to respond to the ‘no-holds-barred’ aggressive Trumpism.  Average Canadians are now paying the penalty from their wrong choice of the last election.