Trump: "It's an honor to have the prime minister of Canada, Mark Carney, who I have made very popular. He's an extremely popular prime minister and I'm very honored to do it because I like him."

Moonbox · October 9, 2025

22 hours ago, Shady said:

It makes perfect sense. Carney isn’t going to make Canada as strong and independent as Pierre would. He’s not going to change things like the emissions cap on oil production, the ban on pipelines, the ban on tankers, the industrial carbon tax, etc. Those things all make Canada less competitive and more reliant on the United States.

Even if all of this coping and rationalizing were valid, you still have to deal with the fact that Trump knew he was deeply unpopular in Canada and that his endorsement or praise of a candidate would do the opposite of help them.

This was a child's effort at reverse psychology, and nobody fell for it. I'm embarrassed for you that you're trying to argue otherwise.

CdnFox · October 9, 2025

7 hours ago, LinkSoul60 said:

So you suggest making a deal when it's not to the benefit of Canadian's just to meet a deadline.

He was the one that set the deadline. So either he's incompetent, or he's incompetent. Either way we're in trouble

And we have a deal right now. It's a very bad deal that's wrecking our economy. We were hoping to get a better deal that wouldn't reckon our economy

And I hear he's pretty much thrown the automotive industry under the bus. Ontario should be happy about that

Nefarious Banana · October 9, 2025

On 10/8/2025 at 1:05 PM, paxamericana said:

Governor Carney!

How's the weather in Winnipeg these days?

Legato · October 9, 2025

7 minutes ago, CdnFox said:

Ontario should be happy about that

Along with Honda, Toyota, Hyundai, Kia, Volkswagen etc.

CdnFox · October 9, 2025

17 minutes ago, Nefarious Banana said:

How's the weather in Winnipeg these days?

Calgary i think you mean

LinkSoul60 · October 9, 2025

8 hours ago, Legato said:

4 years later.....So you suggest making a deal when it's not to the benefit of Canadian's just to meet a deadline.

Do try to see water when it rains.

4 years... My calendar says he's been in office 6 months.

LinkSoul60 · October 10, 2025

5 hours ago, Army Guy said:

Carney also promise to spend 1 trillion dollars in the US over the next 5 years.....so he'll be putting a lot of credits in someone pockets , just not Canadians...And that's not even counting the 500 bil in investments into Canada...I'm no banker, but it all sounds sketchy to me...But it is just numbers right...

You listen to angry Pierre too much... He promised nothing. What he said was that we have half a billion in investments in the US right now and if they get a deal and back on the relationship track more private Canadian investment will follow.

We have $675B in US equity and debt securities investment today. That's private investment, not government investment. I'll assume even soundbite Pierre knows what private investment means, but hey, it gives him something to talk about.

Legato · October 10, 2025

1 hour ago, LinkSoul60 said:

4 years... My calendar says he's been in office 6 months.

Again a failure to see the nuance. Try seeing past the Carney altar of abject goose eggs.

Edited October 10, 2025 by Legato

LinkSoul60 · October 10, 2025

20 minutes ago, Legato said:

Again a failure to see the nuance. Try seeing past the Carney altar of abject goose eggs.

Strange.... and a failure at the ability to talk like a normal person.

Army Guy · October 10, 2025

1 hour ago, LinkSoul60 said:

You listen to angry Pierre too much... He promised nothing. What he said was that we have half a billion in investments in the US right now and if they get a deal and back on the relationship track more private Canadian investment will follow.

We have $675B in US equity and debt securities investment today. That's private investment, not government investment. I'll assume even soundbite Pierre knows what private investment means, but hey, it gives him something to talk about.

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We are the largest foreign investor in the United States, half a trillion in the last five years alone, probably $1 trillion in the next five years — if we get the agreement we expect to get," Carney told the president during their meeting, a nod to Trump's fixation on announcing instances of foreign companies making big investments in the U.S.

If we get the agreement we want.....PP did not make that comment Carney did....

Legato · October 10, 2025

2 minutes ago, LinkSoul60 said:

Strange.... and a failure at the ability to talk like a normal person.

So still at a loss. Try harder.

LinkSoul60 · October 10, 2025

1 minute ago, Army Guy said:

If we get the agreement we want.....PP did not make that comment Carney did....

He promised nothing.

LinkSoul60 · October 10, 2025

2 minutes ago, Legato said:

So still at a loss. Try harder.

At a loss trying to explain why you don't agree to a deal regardless of what timeline was said if it's not in your best interests? Hardly. But you're apparently at loss with your typical round about rhymes.

CouchPotato · October 10, 2025

6 hours ago, Moonbox said:

Even if all of this coping and rationalizing were valid, you still have to deal with the fact that Trump knew he was deeply unpopular in Canada and that his endorsement or praise of a candidate would do the opposite of help them.

This was pointed out to Trump before Carney even won the election in an interview on Fox News. Trump was pressed about how his words made the Liberal candidate more popular, and he said, "I'd rather deal with a Liberal." And so far it's working out pretty well for him. Carney is weak.

Do you remember how just a few days before the election the media started finally reporting on the leaks about Carney's phone call with Trump? It was reported that he told the President he would have to talk tough about Trump for the election campaign but he looked forward to working with him.

Now I am not going to say Carney likes or agrees with Trump, but he definitely played up how Trump wants to break us to his own advantage and promised to be tough and stand up to him. But he just isn't that tough. And I don't think he's got enough guile to fool Trump the way he fooled voters.

Edited October 10, 2025 by CouchPotato

Legato · October 10, 2025

40 minutes ago, LinkSoul60 said:

At a loss trying to explain why you don't agree to a deal regardless of what timeline was said if it's not in your best interests? Hardly. But you're apparently at loss with your typical round about rhymes.

Try this then.........4 years forward from last March..... the Carney......we are having talks to set a timeline for talks about the possibility of maybe a deal. This time I'm hopeful a deal can be concluded that benefits the US unlike the deals we already have that benefit the US.

LinkSoul60 · October 10, 2025

26 minutes ago, Legato said:

Try this then.........4 years forward from last March..... the Carney......we are having talks to set a timeline for talks about the possibility of maybe a deal. This time I'm hopeful a deal can be concluded that benefits the US unlike the deals we already have that benefit the US.

So what you're saying is... 'yes, you sign a deal regardless if bad because a date was set'. I'm not sure most would agree with that...

What particular part of his resume are you uncomfortable with in this inability to make the right deal for Canada... Is it his lack of economic background, no business background, or something other tells you he's out of his league?

Legato · October 10, 2025

12 hours ago, LinkSoul60 said:

So what you're saying is... 'yes, you sign a deal regardless if bad because a date was set'. I'm not sure most would agree with that...

What particular part of his resume are you uncomfortable with in this inability to make the right deal for Canada... Is it his lack of economic background, no business background, or something other tells you he's out of his league?

Trump's a seasoned businessman, the Carney can't even find the same league to play in

The false laughs and the cap in hand body language, poor guy was demonstrating his inadequacy for the whole world to see.

One could hope Carney will get Canada a good deal. Alas, as time goes on the hope is fading.

LinkSoul60 · October 10, 2025

17 minutes ago, Legato said:

Trump's a seasoned businessman, the Carney can't even find the same league to play in

The false laughs and the cap in hand body language, poor guy was demonstrating his inadequacy for the whole world to see.

One could hope Carney will get Canada a good deal. Alas, as time goes on the hope is fading.

He's a very seasoned businessman who's only filed for business bankruptcy 6 times....and casino's to boot. Think about that...

In only one of many positions that dealt with vast finances Carney was chair of a company managing $660B in assets so help me understand 'not in the same league'?

Your idolizing of Trump and obliged playbook of slamming Carney lacks no substance at all, but is filled with hypocrisy. Rooting for one guy and slamming the guy he's trying to screw makes little sense... don't you think.

I'll assume you haven't negotiated a lot in your life or career. You do not agree to a deal if it's not in your best interests regardless of any so-called timeframes. The longer it goes without a deal only tells me that a deal acceptable to Canada isn't on the table. So be it.... wait until one is.

CdnFox · October 10, 2025

16 hours ago, LinkSoul60 said:

4 years... My calendar says he's been in office 6 months.

Your calendar is wrong. He's been working with closely and advising the liberals since 2020. In addition the ministers and stuff that he relies on or largely there for all of that time as well.

You can't just put on a different jacket and pretend you just showed up. If you're falling for that kind of nonsense then frankly I can see why you lose debates to 6-year-olds

19 minutes ago, LinkSoul60 said:

He's a very seasoned businessman who's only filed for business bankruptcy 6 times....and casino's to boot. Think about that...

In only one of many positions that dealt with vast finances Carney was chair of a company managing $660B in assets so help me understand 'not in the same league'?

Your idolizing of Trump and obliged playbook of slamming Carney lacks no substance at all, but is filled with hypocrisy. Rooting for one guy and slamming the guy he's trying to screw makes little sense... don't you think.

I'll assume you haven't negotiated a lot in your life or career. You do not agree to a deal if it's not in your best interests regardless of any so-called timeframes. The longer it goes without a deal only tells me that a deal acceptable to Canada isn't on the table. So be it.... wait until one is.

And yet trump is winning and carney is losing. Think about THAT

CdnFox · October 10, 2025

51 minutes ago, Legato said:

One could hope Carney will get Canada a good deal. Alas, as time goes on the hope is fading.

His new pitch is that what we have right now is actually a really good deal. He's trying to sell the idea that it's better than any other deal in the world, without mentioning that nobody else has 75% of their trade with America and glossing over how tied our economy is to the industries that are getting hit the worst.

So now if he gets even a TINY bit of relief and we die at a slightly slower pace, he can claim we had the best deal and now we've got an even BETTER deal so we should be happy!! All thank the transformational leadership of Trump!

We are so effed.

WestCanMan · October 10, 2025

Trump's biggest lies to date:

It's an honour to have the prime minister of Canada, Mark Carney
He's an extremely popular prime minister
I'm very honoured to do it
I like him.

Busted...

It's never "an honour" to be visited by a grovelling, subservient dog
he knows that Carney is not popular
it's not an honour to work with him, just to make him bite the pillow
no one "likes" Carney

WestCanMan · October 10, 2025

26 minutes ago, CdnFox said:

Your calendar is wrong. He's been working with closely and advising the liberals since 2020.

Carney was the perfect blend of "proved his level of dedication to the cult" and "not tainted by being a full-fledged member of the failed Trudeau gov't".

Trudeau's cabinet ministers became toxic after just being his brainless underlings for so long, so none of them could pick up the LPOC banner and run with it. They needed an untarnished face that the MSM could carry over the finish line, and Carney was it.

He's a guy who:

after 4 years of advising the LPOC gov't and the PMO directly, is still seen by people like Link as "having played no role in it",
he's seen as "having played no role in moving Brookfield's HQ to NY" even though he was the chairman of the Board when they voted on moving it,
but he's seen as having played the vital role in protecting Canada's economy from the 2008 recession even though he wasn't the Finance Minister or PM...

See, when you're a media darling, you're directly associated with good things that you did not do, and somehow not at all associated with the bad things that you did.

The "best" money the LPOC ever spent, from their own POV at least, was the money that they used to bribe our mainstream media. They have turned tax dollars into a cultist horde that even hitler and mohammed would envy.

CouchPotato · October 10, 2025

55 minutes ago, WestCanMan said:

Trump's biggest lies to date:

It's an honour to have the prime minister of Canada, Mark Carney

He's an extremely popular prime minister

I'm very honoured to do it

I like him.

Trump says this about most world leaders. He likes Starmer. He likes Xi. Etc, etc. And they all love him and they have a great relationship.

WestCanMan · October 10, 2025

12 minutes ago, CouchPotato said:

Trump says this about most world leaders. He likes Starmer. He likes Xi. Etc, etc. And they all love him and they have a great relationship.

It's part of the deal.

He fluffs foreign leaders up so that they can look good while they sign bad deals.

At the end of the day, Trump's happy, Americans are happy, Carney's happy, and the MSM is happy because they get to brag him up, and only Canadian peons like us get screwed.

It's a win/win as far as everyone but the Canadian public is concerned.

CouchPotato · October 10, 2025

4 minutes ago, WestCanMan said:

It's part of the deal.

He fluffs foreign leaders up so that they can look good while they sign bad deals.

It's funny, too, because he will praise a leader graciously while also slamming every policy they believe in.

Trump is really good at this. People who don't like him only see a bozo... and he can be. I don't think he is a genius playing 5 day chess or anything, but the guy has some incredible strengths and people who see him as an enemy refuse to give him any credit for it.