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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/rand-paul-trump-tariff-deficits-b2729891.html

This is what he did with Canada and Mexico on a larger scale. Threaten tariffs and within a day pause them. He can rinse and repeat this act over and over again. Hopefully the world realizes dealing with Trump is like dealing with a toddler trying to get candy and looks for alternatives to their market.

Or did he do it so his billionaires can buy up stocks and then do it again in 90 days?

OMG! The Europeans aren't buying F350 4x4s because of tariffs! I always thought it was because they had trains and trams, public transit, the roads were too small, and the price of gas was much, much more. Drop the tariffs and they rush to buy cars that cost 50 euros to go 100 km....

No, it's an invitation to discuss the topic. And you attacked it because you know that if you had stepped to the mic the whole internet would have seen what a fool you are. Why didn't you denounce the attack? Your post seems to excuse it. Are you for violence over debate?

One example of misleading news is the headline which stated Mark Carney was being "targeted" by a Chinese website. The correct word should have been "aided". We see a lot of this from the MSM.

In Vaughn, ON - Carney struts out to meet auto parts workers to the tune of Thunderstruck by AC/DC, which he said was his warm-up song when he played minor hockey. Thunderstruck was released in 1990, when Carney was 25 years old. Why do journalists NEVER fact-check this liar?

Trump announces 90-day pause on tariffs for non-retaliating countries Sure looks like his people got to him and said this is going to be a disaster and he realized he'd have to back off. The problem is by keeping the tariffs in a paused state instead of saying we're going to stop the talk of tariffs until negotiations are complete he doesn't resolve the fears of the marketplace who will continue to keep their money on the sideline till they see what he does. And of course he's still got the ongoing war with china

Is that: the guy who lied about moving Brookfield to the US the same guy who did a quarter of a billion dollar deal with the Communist Bank of China? the same guy who refused to fire his MP, after he talked about turning a conservative candidate over to the Chinese gov't, to collect on a bounty on him? the same guy who lived abroad for the past ten years, has 2 foreign passports, and made all his money by helping large companies avoid paying taxes here in Canada? the same guy who lied about his role in protecting the Canadian economy in 2008? the guy who's got the Chinese gov't running propaganda for him? the guy who also lied about being an advisor to the federal gov't in the 1990's? the guy who pretends to be brimming with common-sense conservative policies, but was advising Trudeau and pushing DEI drivel while he ran Canada into the ground? Yeah, I think it's pretty fair to say that his resume doesn't have "saviour of Canada" written all over it... If you look up quisling in the dictionary, you'll see Carney's picture beside it.

You never thought.... ever... You memorize leftard drivel and regurgitate it without ever engaging your craptastic cerebral cortex.

Some FOOLS believe that joke is a threat to whomever is on an unidentified golf course. LMAO

He doesn't want a fair system. I think we have to be honest here and recognize that what he wants is to try and drive businesses all over the world to open their businesses and invest in manufacturing and services inside America and not just sell finished goods. His language has been extremely clear. The trade system that America had with Canada was beyond fair. America had access pretty much unfettered to all of our resources and much of it including oil at vast discounts. That powered your economy and a hell of a lot of your homes. In exchange you were limited as to how many eggs and how much cheese you could sell us. Oh dear And you've always had limits on how much lumber we can sell you. Because we have better lumber and we're better at harvesting it and limits allowed your companies to invest and do what they could do and we accepted that. But these are issues that are dealt with over the negotiating table. You sit down and you negotiate and you work it out to make sure that it's balanced. You don't launch a trade war unless it is an absolute necessity. It does severe harm to the economy has the opposite effect that you hope As I said previously tariffs are like medicine. The right medicine at the right dosage properly administered can be life-saving and a huge benefit. But the wrong dosage of the wrong medicine taken him properly can kill you. The same is true of tariffs. They are not a blunt instrument to be applied like a hammer

Leftard logic: "Orinj man bad. Too much power. We need emperor to rule entire planet. Emperor will be good. Will share with everyone. So sayeth CNN."

It's absolutely debate. It is the essence of polite, informative debate. They give people the opportunity to come and talk about whatever they want to, they let them have their full say, and then they politely reply with all of the pertinent facts. How is that not debate? Your problem is that actual debate is anathema to leftists. You want to watch a CNN monologue or a Demi demagogue's rant, commit their screed to memory, and then set your confirmation bias filter to 'scorched earth'. That's why you still believe that Fauci is science incarnate... CNN hasn't said anything to the contrary, and nothing that you see from the other tribe will ever register in your 'brain'. You're incapable of learning from them. Here's how leftists debate: ask Kamala Harris a question and she'll start filibustering, dodging, lying, and at the end of it, you're no closer to having your question answered than if you wrote it on rice paper and threw it in a volcano. That's what she did for the whole election cycle and you were enthralled every time she spoke. And as far as you're concerned, anyone who disproves her drivel is just a racist. "BUT SHE WASN'T THE BORDER CZAR! AND ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION WAS COMPLETELY UNDER CONTROL, 24/7! NO CRIMINALS AND NO DRUGS CAME ACROSS THE BORDER, YOU'RE JUST A RACIST!" It's sad how close to the presidency that pathetic formula actually got you clowns. In an ideal world, she would have gotten 3% of the vote with that BS.

When it comes to domestic travel, all countries have cabotage laws that prohibit foreign carriers, including the US. The EU is the only exception. If American carriers are allowed into the US, Canadian carriers would have to be given the same rights in the US. That won't happen. Also, US carriers would cherry pick our most lucrative routes and ignore the rest of the country. Air travel is a necessity in a country as large as Canada. Our population is too spread out and isn't large enough or distances short enough to have the same kind of rail service as Europe or Asia. Giving up the ability to feed ourselves to another country's subsidized agriculture would be a national security threat of the first order. I'm undecided on telecoms but there might be some of the same issues that apply to transportation.

The system as it is made the USA the wealthiest nation. Unemployment is low. What is the purpose of this in light of these facts?

The vaccines definitely helped--and tremendously so. Your math tutor, not so much. 99% of Canadians who died in car accidents last year were in cars with airbags. Guess in your world airbags don't help.

I dunno. Nobody likes competition 😔

You Americans are good for ideas. America is good for ideas. As a Canadian, trust me, we borrow. We Canadians are free riders on your ideas: your good will. === We could not wish for better southern neighbors. And you too, you could not wish for better people to the north, better neighbours.

I disagree strongly with your premise. The Left is the left - Democrats, democrats, whatever. I recently flew in a Boeing 737 Max to Cuba. I traded with Cubans. Decades ago, in Soviet times, I traded with Russians. What's the difference? ==== Cuba nowadays is not a threat to the world. The Soviet Union was.

You're not on anyone's side but your own echo chamber's. And if you actually cared about shutting down the syphoning of money and offshore accounts you would have been doing everything you could to get justin out of power ages ago. You're just a shallow puddle morally speaking.

Rather: Carney and his wife, and a voice over of who she is. Where she was born. Compare her to Poilievre's wife. And finish with Sophie.

How do many women choose? They once chose Trudeau Jnr. He was cute.

Poilievre huge Canadian flag, alone, then the wife joining him on stage: Modern Canada. Federal Liberals: no wife.

Codswallop.

When you made it clear you weren't voting for PP...ergo. Partisan zero-sum you're either with us or against us thinking is getting so typical it's ridiculous. 🥱 What's worse and troubling though is that it's signalling a Canadian shift towards a two-party system where the thought of a minority government is practically verboten.

You're what a reluctant self-loathing anti-vaxxing dingbat sounds like.

Imma go with "Because that's when he started funding gain of function research on coronaviruses at the lab in Wuhan." I'm sure its just another one of those "coincidences" that keep happening around the guy......sort of like China and Carney.

It's not the government's job to look after your teeth. LOL You took medical advice from someone who needed a presidential pardon for giving it!! 🤣

You shouldn't. Watch this whistleblower expose Carney and the whole ESG, DEI, climate scam - Desiree Fixler. They have taken the entire world on a wild ride and they're laughing about it behind closed doors, while the machines count their money. I used to think Carney was just another climate hysteria ding-dong, but no.....he's the architect of it all and he is pure evil. I am a bit worried if he gets in.

If you think Carney works for Satan, why do you care what he says his policies are? That’s part of it. Poilievre has a past record in government. It’s an awful one.

North Korea is doing great!

isolationist policies do not work anymore. They worked pre-WWII because of low demand for certain goods made elsewhere. That being said.. wanting the US to make the goods instead of importing them is sensible in most cases. Some goods simply can't be produced without undue effort.

Because there were 3 months of riots, plus several murders, and an innocent verdict would have caused even more violence and chaos. Bear in mind that the day the footage of Floyd's whole arrest was LEAKED, the riots ended. Keith Ellison, Minn's Demi AG, could have released those videos 3 months earlier, but he kept them locked away while a completely false narrative was being pushed by CNN and the Dems.

If you are looking for an example of a country that tried to isolate its economy from the rest of the world, you need to look no farther than the Soviet Union.

Btw............... There's something they're not telling us about his departure from UK. A marked man: Carney’s BoE departure Bank of England Governor, Mark Carney, has found himself in a world where his values are increasingly under fire. The Canadian banker is now set to depart his role in 2019 Mark Carney’s departure from the Bank of England looks to be a much less celebratory affair than his initial appointment to the role. When it was announced he would take over the position in 2012, he was lauded as “the outstanding central banker of his generation” by then-Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne. Since then, many have come to view him much less favourably. Carney’s fall from grace appears to be yet another consequence of the UK’s decision to leave the European Union. While the timeline for the withdrawal process remains elusive – if even guaranteed – the vote in June last year has already claimed its fair share of political causalities. Former Prime Minister David Cameron resigned immediately after the vote, while key figures of his cabinet were soon culled from office by his replacement, Theresa May. Many celebrated his appointment at the time – yet, after Carney dared to wade into the divisive politics of 2016, his popularity soon waned. Over the space of a year, he went from someone generally viewed inoffensively, to the subject of mounting political attack. Leaving the EU, he claimed, would result in the UK seeing two consecutive quarters of negative growth. According to James Bartholomew, writing in The Spectator: “He appeared to be going beyond any formal Bank of England forecast. Effectively he was supporting the Remain campaign by backing ‘project fear’. He gave up the political neutrality expected of governors.” The future for Carney While Theresa May’s jibe over international citizenship was not explicitly directed at Carney, the Canadian governor must have felt its impact – and adding insult to injury was the fact his very policy was also attacked in the same speech. In what must have felt like a general loss of confidence in his ability to function in a post-Brexit world, it was rumoured Carney had seriously toyed with the decision to step down. Indeed, many media outlets urged him to do just that. https://www.worldfinance.com/profile/a-marked-man-carney-set-for-boe-departure

Not entirely sure what he really wants. However, going to be interesting to see how it plays out. The trade war is not going so well.

Same old Liberals - a nest of racists. Some have come out of the closet! Stirring hate towards specific groups of people living IN CANADA: Chinese and Russians. Looks like LoBot's got a follower. This is the response I got for my post on status update: I bet, if Singh could do it all over again........he would be bring down Trudeau while Justin is still in office. Imagine that. NDP could've had a good chance at being the official Opposition. But now, according to Power Play.....Singh might even lose his seat. https://repolitics.com/forums/profile/1432-betsy/?status=19480&type=status At a time like this when Canadians should be united......of course, there are those who'd try to divide Canada. The real threat to Canada is not Trump.

Maybe they are afraid they will find out he was playing minor hockey when he was 25 years old.

Ahhhh, now I get it. China is the key to the new globalist financial system Carney is pushing for.

Mark Carney today: “I am deeply offended by Paul Chiang's comments, but will use this as a teachable moment and make sure none of my MPs coordinate any more extrajudicial political assassinations again."