It looks like Canada and the U.S. both have issues, and what was going to be a grand deal for both sides, including the XL pipeline, is starting again from Biden’s failed green agenda. This fight is another one that needs to end with the midterms coming up, but it seems Trump is country first, party second, as it should be. It can’t always be about saving a RINO that is never there for the party when needed.
The GOP needs to be on stage every day with examples of communism and socialism from history because there is no good story to tell. It is time to reeducate our kids from the teachers’ unions who think they own your kids. No way. Get rid of teachers’ unions as a national defense issue or at least limit the unions to pay and working conditions, not defining what is taught to our kids other than reading, writing and arithmetic. It would also help to add truthful history and civics.
The countdown is on, and Trump only has two years remaining, and the GOP needs to fully support this man to bring our country back to the basics of our Republic. All IMO.
“Prohibitive 50 percent tariffs on $20 billion worth of Canadian goods went into effect Saturday following the collapse of down-to-the-wire trade talks, with Canada promising to retaliate dollar for dollar. Each side accused the other of making unacceptable last-minute demands.
The breakdown, coming just days after President Trump announced that a deal was in hand, further roils a once-close relationship between the continental neighbors and threatens economic pain on both sides of one of the world’s largest trading relationships just months before the American mid-term elections.
The countries were believed to have been on the verge of a broad agreement settling issues dating from the early days of Mr. Trump’s second term after the American president posted on Truth Social this week that “Canada and the U.S.A., subject to the finalization of documents, have a DEAL!” Canada’s prime minister, Mark Carney, had been more cautious, saying only that “significant progress” had been made.
But with the clock ticking down to a Friday midnight deadline before the new American tariffs kicked in, Mr. Carney ordered his negotiators to leave the table, saying, “Last-minute changes in the U.S. proposed terms were unfair, uneconomic and called into question the reliability of any deal.”
The United States trade representative, Jamieson Greer, countered in a virtual meeting with reporters saying “new demands and walk backs of other commitments by Canada” were responsible for the breakdown, even though the northern neighbor had been offered “the best treatment of any major exporter to our market.”
The new tariffs will dramatically raise the cost for Americans on dozens of Canadian products including household plastics and chemicals, electronics, building materials, some paper and lumber, alcohol, textiles and sporting goods — including, famously, maple syrup and hockey sticks. Certain strategic items are excluded, including petroleum, critical minerals and potash.
Canada has not yet announced what American goods will be hit with retaliatory tariffs but an 18-month-old ban imposed by eight provinces on the sale of American wine and spirits that cost the industry $357 million last year is expected to continue, days after Mr. Carney had asked the provincial premiers to prepare to lift them.”