Peloni: In this moment, America needed a competent leader on the Canadian side of the negotiating table. Unfortunately, they had what amounts to the Canadian equivalent of China Joe, as in the form of China Mark Carney. Notably Canadian PM Carney’s road to where he stands today had is an interesting if disturbing tale, but arguably, it is unlikely that he could have actually won the last election in Canada without the input of Pres. Trump’s statements at the outset of his second term about Canada becoming an American state. The resulting swing in the Canadian electorate towards the most anti-America candidate was quite material, as upto that point, it appeared that the long absence of competency in Canadian governance was to about to come to an end with the aspiring hopes that Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre would ultimately become the next Canadian prime minister. The upset in that election was an unfortunate moment, for Canada, for America, and for the world. As Carney is doing the China dance once again, entering into a trade war with the US, it should be understood that Canada and America will both be harmed by what comes next, yet Pres. Xi will be wearing a Cheshire grin all the way to Washington next month.
The U.S.-Canada Trade War takes off.
J.B. Shurk | Am Thinker | August 24, 2026
By The White House – Flickr, Public Domain, Wikipedia
Central banker Mark Carney is doing that peculiar Canadian thing again — acting tough while exuding weakness. Just before midnight on Friday, the former governor of the Bank of England and King Charles III’s current prime minister in North America announced that trade talks with the United States had collapsed. This was expected, even though the Canadian and American trade delegations had publicly expressed optimism on Wednesday that a mutually beneficial framework for future trade relations was within reach.
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