In a stirring address, Canadian PM Mark Carney urged the nation to become a "beacon to a world that’s at sea," emphasizing unity and resilience against global challenges. The national address at Quebec City’s historic fortress spotlighted Canada’s role amid dramatic geopolitical shifts and domestic struggles.

Dubbed the ‘Carney Doctrine’, his speech followed a broader World Economic Summit message in Davos. Carney critiqued the breakdown of rules-based order, denouncing economic coercion by powerful nations. Despite the narrower focus in Quebec, Carney defended Canadian values, asserting the nation’s potential to lead the world towards progress and justice.

In a pointed response to US President Donald Trump, who suggested Canada’s economy thrived thanks to American generosity, Carney declared, “Canada thrives because we are Canadian. We are masters of our home. This is our country.” He acknowledged the longstanding partnership with the US but emphasized Canadian independence and strength.

His blunt international critique has earned global praise but domestic pushback, particularly from Conservatives who argue his trade missions to China and Qatar have been distractions. They claim these missions have yielded little investment, diverting attention from pressing home issues.

Facing mounting challenges, Carney pledged swift action on the nation’s cost-of-living crisis and advancing crucial infrastructure projects. Yet, the specter of sovereignty referendums in Alberta and Quebec looms, testing national unity.

Carney acknowledged Canada's troubled past with Indigenous peoples, calling for genuine reconciliation as a pathway to true unity. He urged embracing Canada’s diverse history while working towards a fair and inclusive future.

After delivering his speech, Carney shared a light-hearted moment with Bonhomme, Quebec's iconic winter carnival figure, symbolizing national unity amid his political duties. Carney remains in Quebec for cabinet meetings and briefings ahead of parliament's return, with his governing Liberals just one seat shy of a majority.

Key Takeaways:

• Carney calls for Canada to be a global beacon amidst world chaos!

• Defiant response to Trump emphasizes Canadian independence!

• Domestic focus as Carney faces economic and political challenges!

  

Adapted by ASEAN Now from The Guardian 026-01-22

 

 

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Build the wall!

Most world leaders have applauded the Carney Doctrine.

Even Canada's Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre offered some rare praise for Carney's speech in Davos earlier this week, calling it "well-crafted and eloquently delivered"

Meanwhile all a sourpuss Trump could come up with was "Canada lives because of the United States. Remember that, Mark, the next time you make your statements."

How sad, turns out when you can't argue with the message, you just threaten the messenger.

On 1/23/2026 at 11:13 AM, ASEAN NOW News said:

In a stirring address, Canadian PM Mark Carney urged the nation to become a "beacon to a world that’s at sea," emphasizing unity and resilience against global challenges. The national address at Quebec City’s historic fortress spotlighted Canada’s role amid dramatic geopolitical shifts and domestic struggles.

Dubbed the ‘Carney Doctrine’, his speech followed a broader World Economic Summit message in Davos. Carney critiqued the breakdown of rules-based order, denouncing economic coercion by powerful nations. Despite the narrower focus in Quebec, Carney defended Canadian values, asserting the nation’s potential to lead the world towards progress and justice.

In a pointed response to US President Donald Trump, who suggested Canada’s economy thrived thanks to American generosity, Carney declared, “Canada thrives because we are Canadian. We are masters of our home. This is our country.” He acknowledged the longstanding partnership with the US but emphasized Canadian independence and strength.

His blunt international critique has earned global praise but domestic pushback, particularly from Conservatives who argue his trade missions to China and Qatar have been distractions. They claim these missions have yielded little investment, diverting attention from pressing home issues.

Facing mounting challenges, Carney pledged swift action on the nation’s cost-of-living crisis and advancing crucial infrastructure projects. Yet, the specter of sovereignty referendums in Alberta and Quebec looms, testing national unity.

Carney acknowledged Canada's troubled past with Indigenous peoples, calling for genuine reconciliation as a pathway to true unity. He urged embracing Canada’s diverse history while working towards a fair and inclusive future.

After delivering his speech, Carney shared a light-hearted moment with Bonhomme, Quebec's iconic winter carnival figure, symbolizing national unity amid his political duties. Carney remains in Quebec for cabinet meetings and briefings ahead of parliament's return, with his governing Liberals just one seat shy of a majority.

Key Takeaways:

• Carney calls for Canada to be a global beacon amidst world chaos!

• Defiant response to Trump emphasizes Canadian independence!

• Domestic focus as Carney faces economic and political challenges!

  

Adapted by ASEAN Now from The Guardian 026-01-22

 

 

View full article

Mark Carney is a total idiot. Iwatched him make that speech and he still can't get the Canada needa the US more than they need Canada.

2 minutes ago, wavodavo said:

Mark Carney is a total idiot. Iwatched him make that speech and he still can't get the Canada needa the US more than they need Canada.

Carney is a very wealthy former merchant banker with a very dubious past and good luck to him when he knocks on China's door for trade deals etc that Canada have done with the US for years.I feel sorry for Canada with a leader like that.

Canada is a huge source of oil for the US, in the middle of summer when Texas cranks the AC and California battles wildfires, it's Canadian Hydro dams keeping US cities from going dark, your city is wired into Ottawa's Mercy. Here's the part nobody wants to talk about, Canada has proved it can shut it all down oil, electricity, and trade anytime, and not with bombs, not with armies, with just a single political decision. The most important part is that most Americans will have no idea about this until the lights go out.

 

This is a brilliant political ambush that Mark Carney wages against Trump. While Trump was raging with his juvenile tweets, Carney was online with Mexico's president to make an offer the United States could not match. Reliability within 48 Hours. Canada and Mexico shocked the world, they unveiled the Northern Corridor, a trade Super Highway designed to treat America not as a partner but it has an obstacle, to ship around. Carney's exact words "when one door closes, we will find a better door". That wasn't a diplomacy, that was a declaration of economic independence. And Canada has just come up with a way to tax American transport between the US and Alaska, due to poor American policy those shipments are going to become far more expensive, as America cannot afford to ship them by sea. Oops. Didn't think about that. 

 

What Washington doesn't understand is that it is not about who screams the loudest, it's about who the world can't function without. Canada has built themselves into the one country American can't cut out regardless of how reckless Trump behaves. They have total infrastructure integration, your iPhone uses Canadian hydroelectric power, your home is built with superior Canadian lumber, your car runs on Canadian oil, you can't replace all of that overnight.

 

In February a lumber mill in Illinois closed. Because Canadian lumber suddenly became too expensive, after Trump's tariff terrors. This wasn't a failing mill, this was a mill that had been running for 60 years, employing 300 families. It didn't die from Canadian competition, Trump killed it. It died from bad American policy.

 

There is no surge capacity to replace Canadian imports, even analysts on Fox Business admitted it could take a decade to rebuild domestic production. And even if rebuilt, will it be competitive? So instead of protecting American jobs, tariffs will do the opposite, they will make lumber unaffordable in the middle of a housing crisis, and while America is having a political meltdown, Canada was having a strategy meeting. Trump expected the usual script, retaliation, angry press conferences, maybe a new round of tariffs. Instead Canada did something no one saw coming, no shouting, no threats, no photo ops with fingerpointing, politicians stepped up to a podium and announced a 1 billion dollar support program for Canadian lumber companies. Every company taking the money had to commit to Canada's new 25 billion dollar domestic housing program, in other words America just gave us our own lumber back and we're going to use it to fuel a big housing bill. Thanks for the favor Trump!

 

Because of silly political grand standing a kitchen renovation that cost $30,000 in January now costs $35,000. Not because there wasn't enough wood or steel but because of political theater in Washington. Multiply that by millions throughout America. Trump promised to fix the housing crisis, but instead he's destroying it. If Canada, America's closest ally with the longest undefended border could openly defy US pressure, then the question becames avoidable for the rest of the world. What's stopping us from doing the same? Maybe we don't need American approval, China took notice, the EU took notice, so did Mexico. Many other countries did too. 

 

Trump is too dim to understand that Canada has infrastructure indispensability, you can't sanction a country when you run on their oil, you can't bully a partner when you run in their electricity. Canada won't beat America by force, they'll beat America with integration. America's grid was built using cheap Canadian electricity and America just proved it's willing to hurt its own people to make a political point. American can no longer be counted upon for reliability and that's not a trade war, that is a trade crisis. America has a superpower credibility crisis. There's a moment during every empire is history when the mirror doesn't recognize the face staring back. August 1st was America's mirror moment, Trump thought he was teaching a lesson, instead Canada gave America a master class in independence.

 

While America was busy building walls Canada was busy building bridges to Mexico, to Europe, and to Asia. America barked demand for loyalty, Canada quietly earned reliability. Every new home or skyscraper you see, you're looking at Canadian lumber.

 

Here's what the next decade looks like if nothing changes. America drifts into self-imposed isolation as one partner after another quietly diversifies away from US dependence. The EU, Canada and China step into the vacuum, as the predictable hub of trade, dealing with whoever treats them fairly and the US continues its March into  irrelevance, and it's economy starts to shrink, inflation skyrockets, and joblessness becomes a major problem. 

 

The guiding principle that Trump not only ignores but has a complete lack of understanding about, is that America became the greatest economy on the planet due to a lack of tariffs, due to very low import taxes. You don't tax your way out of a deficit, the deficit is there for a reason, ignoring the reason for that deficit and simply focusing on the symptoms is a recipe for disaster. We'll have to call it the Trump economy, we will have to call it the Trump depression, and we will have to call Trump the worst and most destructive  president America has ever seen. 

 The big cry baby just can't handle criticism of any sort even when it's truth and even when it's absolutely correct. Reagan knew what he was talking about with regard to tariffs, and Trump simply does not have a clue, and knows nothing about globalization, nor the inherent ecosystems within globalization. 

Carney has outsmarted Trump at every single turn and the highest quality lumber in the world is no longer available to the U.S and as being sold China and the EU. The oil and gas that the U.S. used to get easily from Canada is now going elsewhere, same applies to the aluminum, the steel, and the rare earth materials that the U.S. no longer has access to, due to sheer stupidity, a victim mentality, and spectacular levels of ignorance on the part of the biggest snowflake in America. 

He does not get it. But, he will eventually. US influence is not what it used to be. And they will pay a huge price for his isolationism, ignorance, arrogance, tariffs (tax hikes), environmental recklessness, and unwillingness to abide by the law. 

Trump is threatening to impose tariffs on rivals and allies alike, without any satisfactory explanation of why one is being tariffed and the other not, and regardless of how such tariffs might hurt U.S. industry and consumers. It’s a total mess. As the Ford Motor chief executive Jim Farley courageously (compared to other chief executives) pointed out, “Let’s be real honest: Long term, a 25 percent tariff across the Mexico and Canada borders would blow a hole in the U.S. industry that we’ve never seen.”

So, either Trump wants to blow that hole, or he’s bluffing, or he is clueless. If it is the latter, Trump is going to get a crash course in the hard realities of the global economy as it really is — not how he imagines it.

Ecosystems? Listen a bit to Beinhocker, who is also the executive director of the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School. In the real world, he argues, “There is no such thing as the American economy anymore that you can identify in any real, tangible way. There’s just this accounting fiction that we call U.S. G.D.P.” To be sure, he says, “There are American interests in the economy. There are American workers. There are American consumers. There are firms based in America. But there is no American economy in that isolated sense.”

The old days, he added, “where you made wine and I made cheese, and you had everything you needed to make wine and I had everything I needed to make cheese and so we traded with each other — which made us both better off, as Adam Smith taught — those days are long gone.” Except in Trump’s head.

Instead, there is a global web of commercial, manufacturing, services and trading “ecosystems,” explains Beinhocker. “There is an automobile ecosystem. There’s an A.I. ecosystem. There’s a smartphone ecosystem. There’s a drug development ecosystem. There is the chip-making ecosystem.” And the people, parts and knowledge that make up those ecosystems all move back and forth across many economies.

As NPR noted in a recent story about the auto industry, “carmakers have built a vast, complicated supply chain that spans North America, with parts crossing back and forth across borders throughout the auto manufacturing process. … Some parts cross borders multiple times — like, say, a wire that is manufactured in the U.S., sent to Mexico to be bundled into a group of wires, and then back to the U.S. for installation into a bigger piece of a car, like a seat.”

Trump just waves off all of this. He told reporters that the U.S. is not reliant on Canada. “We don’t need them to make our cars,” he said.

Actually, we do. And thank goodness for that. It not only enables us to make cars cheaper, but also better. All that a Model T did was get you from point to point faster than a horse, but today’s cars offer you heating and cooling and entertainment from the internet and satellites. They will navigate for you and even drive for you — and they’re much safer. When we can combine more complex knowledge and complex parts to solve complex problems, our quality of life soars.

But here’s the catch. You cannot make complex stuff alone anymore. It’s too complex. In regard to both Canada and China, they are winning the war that the goombah started. America was already in a state of rapid decline, Don just accelerated that. This clip starkly shows the difference in improvements in infrastructure between the lowly US, and their Chinese counterpart. Not world class. Not by a long shot. Woe is America. Such massive delusion and hubris. 

China VS the US.

https://youtu.be/rSgvI1ELfqQ?si=ZdVepEu0gxzhWXjb

10 minutes ago, wavodavo said:

Mark Carney is a total idiot. Iwatched him make that speech and he still can't get the Canada needa the US more than they need Canada.

2 minutes ago, wavodavo said:

9 minutes ago, wavodavo said:

Mark Carney is a total idiot. Iwatched him make that speech and he still can't get the Canada needa the US more than they need Canada.

I must have watched a different speech.

Carney’s was an unmistakable call to action.

2 minutes ago, JBChiangRai said:

I must have watched a different speech.

Carney’s was an unmistakable call to action.

That might be so but action is not something that's in the EU'S playbook as they are a hopeless case and not worth a cold pie or a pinch of chicken **** .

Excerpt from Doug MacIver on Facebook:

Here’s the difference between the two Davos speeches, and it says a lot more than people want to admit.

Carney walked into a room full of global elites and did exactly what that room rewards.

He talked in polished sentences.

He used history references.

He spoke in vague “we all know who I mean” language.

He took shots at the United States without ever saying the words “United States” or “Trump.”

Why?

Because that room hates blunt honesty unless it comes wrapped in academic language and moral superiority.

Carney wasn’t speaking to voters.

He was speaking to the cool kids table.

You could almost hear the nodding.

The approving murmurs.

The “finally someone said it” energy.

But notice what he didn’t do.

He didn’t name Trump.

He didn’t name the U.S.

He didn’t stand there and own the criticism directly.

It was safe.

It was coded.

It was applause-friendly.

That’s how you score points in Davos.

Now contrast that with Trump.

Trump gets on stage and does the opposite of what that room expects.

He names names.

He calls out Carney directly.

He says, out loud, exactly who he’s responding to and why.

No footnotes.

No metaphors.

No hiding behind “global order” language.

You may hate the delivery.

You may hate the message.

But there’s no confusion about who he’s talking to or what he’s responding to.

One guy took indirect shots in a room that already agrees with him.

The other guy fired back, publicly, by name, knowing full well the room would hate it.

That’s the real contrast.

Carney played to the crowd.

Trump played against it.

Carney wanted approval from people who already think like him.

Trump didn’t care if the room booed, scoffed, or rolled their eyes.

And here’s the part people don’t want to say out loud.

If you’re going to criticize someone, especially on a global stage, either say their name or own that you’re playing politics.

Carney tried to have it both ways.

Moral high ground without direct accountability.

Criticism without confrontation.

Trump, for better or worse, didn’t.

You don’t have to like Trump to see the difference.

You don’t have to agree with Carney to recognize the posture.

One speech was about being admired.

The other was about being heard.

And Davos always tells you who is which.

12 minutes ago, Dan747 said:

One speech was about being admired.

The other was about being heard.

One speech was the truth, one was from start to finish a lie.
One speech indicated a way forward, the other was rambling nonsense.

1 hour ago, spidermike007 said:

Canada is a huge source of oil for the US, in the middle of summer when Texas cranks the AC and California battles wildfires, it's Canadian Hydro dams keeping US cities from going dark, your city is wired into Ottawa's

I'm a lumberjack, and I don't care....

1 hour ago, stevenl said:

One speech was the truth, one was from start to finish a lie.
One speech indicated a way forward, the other was rambling nonsense.

Very true, Carney was speaking truth and speaking it with integrity, Trump was lying as always, and showing his total and complete level of moral bankruptcy.

1 hour ago, Dan747 said:

Excerpt from Doug MacIver on Facebook:

Here’s the difference between the two Davos speeches, and it says a lot more than people want to admit.

Carney walked into a room full of global elites and did exactly what that room rewards.

He talked in polished sentences.

He used history references.

He spoke in vague “we all know who I mean” language.

He took shots at the United States without ever saying the words “United States” or “Trump.”

Why?

Because that room hates blunt honesty unless it comes wrapped in academic language and moral superiority.

Carney wasn’t speaking to voters.

He was speaking to the cool kids table.

You could almost hear the nodding.

The approving murmurs.

The “finally someone said it” energy.

But notice what he didn’t do.

He didn’t name Trump.

He didn’t name the U.S.

He didn’t stand there and own the criticism directly.

It was safe.

It was coded.

It was applause-friendly.

That’s how you score points in Davos.

Now contrast that with Trump.

Trump gets on stage and does the opposite of what that room expects.

He names names.

He calls out Carney directly.

He says, out loud, exactly who he’s responding to and why.

No footnotes.

No metaphors.

No hiding behind “global order” language.

You may hate the delivery.

You may hate the message.

But there’s no confusion about who he’s talking to or what he’s responding to.

One guy took indirect shots in a room that already agrees with him.

The other guy fired back, publicly, by name, knowing full well the room would hate it.

That’s the real contrast.

Carney played to the crowd.

Trump played against it.

Carney wanted approval from people who already think like him.

Trump didn’t care if the room booed, scoffed, or rolled their eyes.

And here’s the part people don’t want to say out loud.

If you’re going to criticize someone, especially on a global stage, either say their name or own that you’re playing politics.

Carney tried to have it both ways.

Moral high ground without direct accountability.

Criticism without confrontation.

Trump, for better or worse, didn’t.

You don’t have to like Trump to see the difference.

You don’t have to agree with Carney to recognize the posture.

One speech was about being admired.

The other was about being heard.

And Davos always tells you who is which.

That is a completely bizarre and if I must say rather infantile, and defensive interpretation of what happened.

Trump walked away looking like a fool, even more so than usual to the entire planet, Carney walked away looking like a hero and a true leader.

14 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

Very true, Carney was speaking truth and speaking it with integrity, Trump was lying as always, and showing his total and complete level of moral bankruptcy.

Yet another first for trump ... angering a Canadian ... the kinder, gentler Americans (referring to geography not nationality here).l

5 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

Canada is a huge source of oil for the US, in the middle of summer when Texas cranks the AC and California battles wildfires, it's Canadian Hydro dams keeping US cities from going dark, your city is wired into Ottawa's Mercy. Here's the part nobody wants to talk about, Canada has proved it can shut it all down oil, electricity, and trade anytime, and not with bombs, not with armies, with just a single political decision. The most important part is that most Americans will have no idea about this until the lights go out.

 

This is a brilliant political ambush that Mark Carney wages against Trump. While Trump was raging with his juvenile tweets, Carney was online with Mexico's president to make an offer the United States could not match. Reliability within 48 Hours. Canada and Mexico shocked the world, they unveiled the Northern Corridor, a trade Super Highway designed to treat America not as a partner but it has an obstacle, to ship around. Carney's exact words "when one door closes, we will find a better door". That wasn't a diplomacy, that was a declaration of economic independence. And Canada has just come up with a way to tax American transport between the US and Alaska, due to poor American policy those shipments are going to become far more expensive, as America cannot afford to ship them by sea. Oops. Didn't think about that. 

 

What Washington doesn't understand is that it is not about who screams the loudest, it's about who the world can't function without. Canada has built themselves into the one country American can't cut out regardless of how reckless Trump behaves. They have total infrastructure integration, your iPhone uses Canadian hydroelectric power, your home is built with superior Canadian lumber, your car runs on Canadian oil, you can't replace all of that overnight.

 

In February a lumber mill in Illinois closed. Because Canadian lumber suddenly became too expensive, after Trump's tariff terrors. This wasn't a failing mill, this was a mill that had been running for 60 years, employing 300 families. It didn't die from Canadian competition, Trump killed it. It died from bad American policy.

 

There is no surge capacity to replace Canadian imports, even analysts on Fox Business admitted it could take a decade to rebuild domestic production. And even if rebuilt, will it be competitive? So instead of protecting American jobs, tariffs will do the opposite, they will make lumber unaffordable in the middle of a housing crisis, and while America is having a political meltdown, Canada was having a strategy meeting. Trump expected the usual script, retaliation, angry press conferences, maybe a new round of tariffs. Instead Canada did something no one saw coming, no shouting, no threats, no photo ops with fingerpointing, politicians stepped up to a podium and announced a 1 billion dollar support program for Canadian lumber companies. Every company taking the money had to commit to Canada's new 25 billion dollar domestic housing program, in other words America just gave us our own lumber back and we're going to use it to fuel a big housing bill. Thanks for the favor Trump!

 

Because of silly political grand standing a kitchen renovation that cost $30,000 in January now costs $35,000. Not because there wasn't enough wood or steel but because of political theater in Washington. Multiply that by millions throughout America. Trump promised to fix the housing crisis, but instead he's destroying it. If Canada, America's closest ally with the longest undefended border could openly defy US pressure, then the question becames avoidable for the rest of the world. What's stopping us from doing the same? Maybe we don't need American approval, China took notice, the EU took notice, so did Mexico. Many other countries did too. 

 

Trump is too dim to understand that Canada has infrastructure indispensability, you can't sanction a country when you run on their oil, you can't bully a partner when you run in their electricity. Canada won't beat America by force, they'll beat America with integration. America's grid was built using cheap Canadian electricity and America just proved it's willing to hurt its own people to make a political point. American can no longer be counted upon for reliability and that's not a trade war, that is a trade crisis. America has a superpower credibility crisis. There's a moment during every empire is history when the mirror doesn't recognize the face staring back. August 1st was America's mirror moment, Trump thought he was teaching a lesson, instead Canada gave America a master class in independence.

 

While America was busy building walls Canada was busy building bridges to Mexico, to Europe, and to Asia. America barked demand for loyalty, Canada quietly earned reliability. Every new home or skyscraper you see, you're looking at Canadian lumber.

 

Here's what the next decade looks like if nothing changes. America drifts into self-imposed isolation as one partner after another quietly diversifies away from US dependence. The EU, Canada and China step into the vacuum, as the predictable hub of trade, dealing with whoever treats them fairly and the US continues its March into  irrelevance, and it's economy starts to shrink, inflation skyrockets, and joblessness becomes a major problem. 

 

The guiding principle that Trump not only ignores but has a complete lack of understanding about, is that America became the greatest economy on the planet due to a lack of tariffs, due to very low import taxes. You don't tax your way out of a deficit, the deficit is there for a reason, ignoring the reason for that deficit and simply focusing on the symptoms is a recipe for disaster. We'll have to call it the Trump economy, we will have to call it the Trump depression, and we will have to call Trump the worst and most destructive  president America has ever seen. 

 The big cry baby just can't handle criticism of any sort even when it's truth and even when it's absolutely correct. Reagan knew what he was talking about with regard to tariffs, and Trump simply does not have a clue, and knows nothing about globalization, nor the inherent ecosystems within globalization. 

Carney has outsmarted Trump at every single turn and the highest quality lumber in the world is no longer available to the U.S and as being sold China and the EU. The oil and gas that the U.S. used to get easily from Canada is now going elsewhere, same applies to the aluminum, the steel, and the rare earth materials that the U.S. no longer has access to, due to sheer stupidity, a victim mentality, and spectacular levels of ignorance on the part of the biggest snowflake in America. 

He does not get it. But, he will eventually. US influence is not what it used to be. And they will pay a huge price for his isolationism, ignorance, arrogance, tariffs (tax hikes), environmental recklessness, and unwillingness to abide by the law. 

Trump is threatening to impose tariffs on rivals and allies alike, without any satisfactory explanation of why one is being tariffed and the other not, and regardless of how such tariffs might hurt U.S. industry and consumers. It’s a total mess. As the Ford Motor chief executive Jim Farley courageously (compared to other chief executives) pointed out, “Let’s be real honest: Long term, a 25 percent tariff across the Mexico and Canada borders would blow a hole in the U.S. industry that we’ve never seen.”

So, either Trump wants to blow that hole, or he’s bluffing, or he is clueless. If it is the latter, Trump is going to get a crash course in the hard realities of the global economy as it really is — not how he imagines it.

Ecosystems? Listen a bit to Beinhocker, who is also the executive director of the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School. In the real world, he argues, “There is no such thing as the American economy anymore that you can identify in any real, tangible way. There’s just this accounting fiction that we call U.S. G.D.P.” To be sure, he says, “There are American interests in the economy. There are American workers. There are American consumers. There are firms based in America. But there is no American economy in that isolated sense.”

The old days, he added, “where you made wine and I made cheese, and you had everything you needed to make wine and I had everything I needed to make cheese and so we traded with each other — which made us both better off, as Adam Smith taught — those days are long gone.” Except in Trump’s head.

Instead, there is a global web of commercial, manufacturing, services and trading “ecosystems,” explains Beinhocker. “There is an automobile ecosystem. There’s an A.I. ecosystem. There’s a smartphone ecosystem. There’s a drug development ecosystem. There is the chip-making ecosystem.” And the people, parts and knowledge that make up those ecosystems all move back and forth across many economies.

As NPR noted in a recent story about the auto industry, “carmakers have built a vast, complicated supply chain that spans North America, with parts crossing back and forth across borders throughout the auto manufacturing process. … Some parts cross borders multiple times — like, say, a wire that is manufactured in the U.S., sent to Mexico to be bundled into a group of wires, and then back to the U.S. for installation into a bigger piece of a car, like a seat.”

Trump just waves off all of this. He told reporters that the U.S. is not reliant on Canada. “We don’t need them to make our cars,” he said.

Actually, we do. And thank goodness for that. It not only enables us to make cars cheaper, but also better. All that a Model T did was get you from point to point faster than a horse, but today’s cars offer you heating and cooling and entertainment from the internet and satellites. They will navigate for you and even drive for you — and they’re much safer. When we can combine more complex knowledge and complex parts to solve complex problems, our quality of life soars.

But here’s the catch. You cannot make complex stuff alone anymore. It’s too complex. In regard to both Canada and China, they are winning the war that the goombah started. America was already in a state of rapid decline, Don just accelerated that. This clip starkly shows the difference in improvements in infrastructure between the lowly US, and their Chinese counterpart. Not world class. Not by a long shot. Woe is America. Such massive delusion and hubris. 

China VS the US.

https://youtu.be/rSgvI1ELfqQ?si=ZdVepEu0gxzhWXjb

There's a reason why twitter limits the length of tweets.

On 1/23/2026 at 11:13 AM, ASEAN NOW News said:

In a stirring address, Canadian PM Mark Carney urged the nation to become a "beacon to a world that’s at sea," emphasizing unity and resilience against global challenges. The national address at Quebec City’s historic fortress spotlighted Canada’s role amid dramatic geopolitical shifts and domestic struggles.

Dubbed the ‘Carney Doctrine’, his speech followed a broader World Economic Summit message in Davos. Carney critiqued the breakdown of rules-based order, denouncing economic coercion by powerful nations. Despite the narrower focus in Quebec, Carney defended Canadian values, asserting the nation’s potential to lead the world towards progress and justice.

In a pointed response to US President Donald Trump, who suggested Canada’s economy thrived thanks to American generosity, Carney declared, “Canada thrives because we are Canadian. We are masters of our home. This is our country.” He acknowledged the longstanding partnership with the US but emphasized Canadian independence and strength.

His blunt international critique has earned global praise but domestic pushback, particularly from Conservatives who argue his trade missions to China and Qatar have been distractions. They claim these missions have yielded little investment, diverting attention from pressing home issues.

Facing mounting challenges, Carney pledged swift action on the nation’s cost-of-living crisis and advancing crucial infrastructure projects. Yet, the specter of sovereignty referendums in Alberta and Quebec looms, testing national unity.

Carney acknowledged Canada's troubled past with Indigenous peoples, calling for genuine reconciliation as a pathway to true unity. He urged embracing Canada’s diverse history while working towards a fair and inclusive future.

After delivering his speech, Carney shared a light-hearted moment with Bonhomme, Quebec's iconic winter carnival figure, symbolizing national unity amid his political duties. Carney remains in Quebec for cabinet meetings and briefings ahead of parliament's return, with his governing Liberals just one seat shy of a majority.

Key Takeaways:

• Carney calls for Canada to be a global beacon amidst world chaos!

• Defiant response to Trump emphasizes Canadian independence!

• Domestic focus as Carney faces economic and political challenges!

  

Adapted by ASEAN Now from The Guardian 026-01-22

 

 

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And can stick Celsius on top of the beacon, just like an angel on a Christmas tree.

4 hours ago, stevenl said:

One speech was the truth, one was from start to finish a lie.
One speech indicated a way forward, the other was rambling nonsense.

It's your opinion that it was rambling nonsense.

Although he does ramble at times, the speech can be considered "humiliating the elites" right to their face.

Also, it's not just Trump who spoke.

Howard Lutnik's speech was very significant and he's basically flipping them the finger and telling them their system has failed the US.

Hardly rambling. It's a way forward, just not the same way forward as the WEF.

5 hours ago, Dan747 said:

Excerpt from Doug MacIver on Facebook:

Here’s the difference between the two Davos speeches, and it says a lot more than people want to admit.

Carney walked into a room full of global elites and did exactly what that room rewards.

He talked in polished sentences.

He used history references.

He spoke in vague “we all know who I mean” language.

He took shots at the United States without ever saying the words “United States” or “Trump.”

Why?

Because that room hates blunt honesty unless it comes wrapped in academic language and moral superiority.

Carney wasn’t speaking to voters.

He was speaking to the cool kids table.

You could almost hear the nodding.

The approving murmurs.

The “finally someone said it” energy.

But notice what he didn’t do.

He didn’t name Trump.

He didn’t name the U.S.

He didn’t stand there and own the criticism directly.

It was safe.

It was coded.

It was applause-friendly.

That’s how you score points in Davos.

Now contrast that with Trump.

Trump gets on stage and does the opposite of what that room expects.

He names names.

He calls out Carney directly.

He says, out loud, exactly who he’s responding to and why.

No footnotes.

No metaphors.

No hiding behind “global order” language.

You may hate the delivery.

You may hate the message.

But there’s no confusion about who he’s talking to or what he’s responding to.

One guy took indirect shots in a room that already agrees with him.

The other guy fired back, publicly, by name, knowing full well the room would hate it.

That’s the real contrast.

Carney played to the crowd.

Trump played against it.

Carney wanted approval from people who already think like him.

Trump didn’t care if the room booed, scoffed, or rolled their eyes.

And here’s the part people don’t want to say out loud.

If you’re going to criticize someone, especially on a global stage, either say their name or own that you’re playing politics.

Carney tried to have it both ways.

Moral high ground without direct accountability.

Criticism without confrontation.

Trump, for better or worse, didn’t.

You don’t have to like Trump to see the difference.

You don’t have to agree with Carney to recognize the posture.

One speech was about being admired.

The other was about being heard.

And Davos always tells you who is which.

Nonsense trump walked in there and threw feces into the faces of the countrys that rebuilt Europe after ww2 (with our help) and have stood with us in keeping that peace.hes bolstered putins plans and gave comfort to the enemy.Its a crying shame that our esteemed neighbors to the north were compelled to have to answere this way….its madness all created by your boy trump….the felon.thanks you magga S@Bs

6 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

Canada is a huge source of oil for the US, in the middle of summer when Texas cranks the AC and California battles wildfires, it's Canadian Hydro dams keeping US cities from going dark, your city is wired into Ottawa's Mercy. Here's the part nobody wants to talk about, Canada has proved it can shut it all down oil, electricity, and trade anytime, and not with bombs, not with armies, with just a single political decision. The most important part is that most Americans will have no idea about this until the lights go out.

 

This is a brilliant political ambush that Mark Carney wages against Trump. While Trump was raging with his juvenile tweets, Carney was online with Mexico's president to make an offer the United States could not match. Reliability within 48 Hours. Canada and Mexico shocked the world, they unveiled the Northern Corridor, a trade Super Highway designed to treat America not as a partner but it has an obstacle, to ship around. Carney's exact words "when one door closes, we will find a better door". That wasn't a diplomacy, that was a declaration of economic independence. And Canada has just come up with a way to tax American transport between the US and Alaska, due to poor American policy those shipments are going to become far more expensive, as America cannot afford to ship them by sea. Oops. Didn't think about that. 

 

What Washington doesn't understand is that it is not about who screams the loudest, it's about who the world can't function without. Canada has built themselves into the one country American can't cut out regardless of how reckless Trump behaves. They have total infrastructure integration, your iPhone uses Canadian hydroelectric power, your home is built with superior Canadian lumber, your car runs on Canadian oil, you can't replace all of that overnight.

 

In February a lumber mill in Illinois closed. Because Canadian lumber suddenly became too expensive, after Trump's tariff terrors. This wasn't a failing mill, this was a mill that had been running for 60 years, employing 300 families. It didn't die from Canadian competition, Trump killed it. It died from bad American policy.

 

There is no surge capacity to replace Canadian imports, even analysts on Fox Business admitted it could take a decade to rebuild domestic production. And even if rebuilt, will it be competitive? So instead of protecting American jobs, tariffs will do the opposite, they will make lumber unaffordable in the middle of a housing crisis, and while America is having a political meltdown, Canada was having a strategy meeting. Trump expected the usual script, retaliation, angry press conferences, maybe a new round of tariffs. Instead Canada did something no one saw coming, no shouting, no threats, no photo ops with fingerpointing, politicians stepped up to a podium and announced a 1 billion dollar support program for Canadian lumber companies. Every company taking the money had to commit to Canada's new 25 billion dollar domestic housing program, in other words America just gave us our own lumber back and we're going to use it to fuel a big housing bill. Thanks for the favor Trump!

 

Because of silly political grand standing a kitchen renovation that cost $30,000 in January now costs $35,000. Not because there wasn't enough wood or steel but because of political theater in Washington. Multiply that by millions throughout America. Trump promised to fix the housing crisis, but instead he's destroying it. If Canada, America's closest ally with the longest undefended border could openly defy US pressure, then the question becames avoidable for the rest of the world. What's stopping us from doing the same? Maybe we don't need American approval, China took notice, the EU took notice, so did Mexico. Many other countries did too. 

 

Trump is too dim to understand that Canada has infrastructure indispensability, you can't sanction a country when you run on their oil, you can't bully a partner when you run in their electricity. Canada won't beat America by force, they'll beat America with integration. America's grid was built using cheap Canadian electricity and America just proved it's willing to hurt its own people to make a political point. American can no longer be counted upon for reliability and that's not a trade war, that is a trade crisis. America has a superpower credibility crisis. There's a moment during every empire is history when the mirror doesn't recognize the face staring back. August 1st was America's mirror moment, Trump thought he was teaching a lesson, instead Canada gave America a master class in independence.

 

While America was busy building walls Canada was busy building bridges to Mexico, to Europe, and to Asia. America barked demand for loyalty, Canada quietly earned reliability. Every new home or skyscraper you see, you're looking at Canadian lumber.

 

Here's what the next decade looks like if nothing changes. America drifts into self-imposed isolation as one partner after another quietly diversifies away from US dependence. The EU, Canada and China step into the vacuum, as the predictable hub of trade, dealing with whoever treats them fairly and the US continues its March into  irrelevance, and it's economy starts to shrink, inflation skyrockets, and joblessness becomes a major problem. 

 

The guiding principle that Trump not only ignores but has a complete lack of understanding about, is that America became the greatest economy on the planet due to a lack of tariffs, due to very low import taxes. You don't tax your way out of a deficit, the deficit is there for a reason, ignoring the reason for that deficit and simply focusing on the symptoms is a recipe for disaster. We'll have to call it the Trump economy, we will have to call it the Trump depression, and we will have to call Trump the worst and most destructive  president America has ever seen. 

 The big cry baby just can't handle criticism of any sort even when it's truth and even when it's absolutely correct. Reagan knew what he was talking about with regard to tariffs, and Trump simply does not have a clue, and knows nothing about globalization, nor the inherent ecosystems within globalization. 

Carney has outsmarted Trump at every single turn and the highest quality lumber in the world is no longer available to the U.S and as being sold China and the EU. The oil and gas that the U.S. used to get easily from Canada is now going elsewhere, same applies to the aluminum, the steel, and the rare earth materials that the U.S. no longer has access to, due to sheer stupidity, a victim mentality, and spectacular levels of ignorance on the part of the biggest snowflake in America. 

He does not get it. But, he will eventually. US influence is not what it used to be. And they will pay a huge price for his isolationism, ignorance, arrogance, tariffs (tax hikes), environmental recklessness, and unwillingness to abide by the law. 

Trump is threatening to impose tariffs on rivals and allies alike, without any satisfactory explanation of why one is being tariffed and the other not, and regardless of how such tariffs might hurt U.S. industry and consumers. It’s a total mess. As the Ford Motor chief executive Jim Farley courageously (compared to other chief executives) pointed out, “Let’s be real honest: Long term, a 25 percent tariff across the Mexico and Canada borders would blow a hole in the U.S. industry that we’ve never seen.”

So, either Trump wants to blow that hole, or he’s bluffing, or he is clueless. If it is the latter, Trump is going to get a crash course in the hard realities of the global economy as it really is — not how he imagines it.

Ecosystems? Listen a bit to Beinhocker, who is also the executive director of the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School. In the real world, he argues, “There is no such thing as the American economy anymore that you can identify in any real, tangible way. There’s just this accounting fiction that we call U.S. G.D.P.” To be sure, he says, “There are American interests in the economy. There are American workers. There are American consumers. There are firms based in America. But there is no American economy in that isolated sense.”

The old days, he added, “where you made wine and I made cheese, and you had everything you needed to make wine and I had everything I needed to make cheese and so we traded with each other — which made us both better off, as Adam Smith taught — those days are long gone.” Except in Trump’s head.

Instead, there is a global web of commercial, manufacturing, services and trading “ecosystems,” explains Beinhocker. “There is an automobile ecosystem. There’s an A.I. ecosystem. There’s a smartphone ecosystem. There’s a drug development ecosystem. There is the chip-making ecosystem.” And the people, parts and knowledge that make up those ecosystems all move back and forth across many economies.

As NPR noted in a recent story about the auto industry, “carmakers have built a vast, complicated supply chain that spans North America, with parts crossing back and forth across borders throughout the auto manufacturing process. … Some parts cross borders multiple times — like, say, a wire that is manufactured in the U.S., sent to Mexico to be bundled into a group of wires, and then back to the U.S. for installation into a bigger piece of a car, like a seat.”

Trump just waves off all of this. He told reporters that the U.S. is not reliant on Canada. “We don’t need them to make our cars,” he said.

Actually, we do. And thank goodness for that. It not only enables us to make cars cheaper, but also better. All that a Model T did was get you from point to point faster than a horse, but today’s cars offer you heating and cooling and entertainment from the internet and satellites. They will navigate for you and even drive for you — and they’re much safer. When we can combine more complex knowledge and complex parts to solve complex problems, our quality of life soars.

But here’s the catch. You cannot make complex stuff alone anymore. It’s too complex. In regard to both Canada and China, they are winning the war that the goombah started. America was already in a state of rapid decline, Don just accelerated that. This clip starkly shows the difference in improvements in infrastructure between the lowly US, and their Chinese counterpart. Not world class. Not by a long shot. Woe is America. Such massive delusion and hubris. 

China VS the US.

https://youtu.be/rSgvI1ELfqQ?si=ZdVepEu0gxzhWXjb

Nothing is sure in life but death, taxes and Spidermike using known Chinese and Iranian state propaganda in his USA threads. At least three times I've noticed and I barely read any of his thousands of posts.

The foreigners in China’s disinformation drive

Foreigners are increasingly appearing on YouTube promoting China's narrative on issues like Xinjiang.

1 hour ago, Oliver Holzerfilled said:

Nothing is sure in life but death, taxes and Spidermike using kno state propaganda in his USA threads. At least three times I've noticed and I barely read any of his thousands of posts.

The foreigners in China’s disinformation drive

Foreigners are increasingly appearing on YouTube promoting China's narrative on issues like Xinjiang.

Not just Chinese and Iranian, but in that sermon he just delivered he quoted from Georgi Dimitrov, one of Stalin's closest allies during the 1937 purges of the party, and one of the leading (no, THE leading) European communists between 1935 and 1945.

You could say that, as a top Stalinist, Dimitrov was an expert in cancel culture, which, as in Soviet days, is now the preferred way of dealing with anyone with whom you disagree.

8 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

Canada is a huge source of oil for the US, in the middle of summer when Texas cranks the AC and California battles wildfires, it's Canadian Hydro dams keeping US cities from going dark, your city is wired into Ottawa's Mercy. Here's the part nobody wants to talk about, Canada has proved it can shut it all down oil, electricity, and trade anytime, and not with bombs, not with armies, with just a single political decision. The most important part is that most Americans will have no idea about this until the lights go out.

 

This is a brilliant political ambush that Mark Carney wages against Trump. While Trump was raging with his juvenile tweets, Carney was online with Mexico's president to make an offer the United States could not match. Reliability within 48 Hours. Canada and Mexico shocked the world, they unveiled the Northern Corridor, a trade Super Highway designed to treat America not as a partner but it has an obstacle, to ship around. Carney's exact words "when one door closes, we will find a better door". That wasn't a diplomacy, that was a declaration of economic independence. And Canada has just come up with a way to tax American transport between the US and Alaska, due to poor American policy those shipments are going to become far more expensive, as America cannot afford to ship them by sea. Oops. Didn't think about that. 

 

What Washington doesn't understand is that it is not about who screams the loudest, it's about who the world can't function without. Canada has built themselves into the one country American can't cut out regardless of how reckless Trump behaves. They have total infrastructure integration, your iPhone uses Canadian hydroelectric power, your home is built with superior Canadian lumber, your car runs on Canadian oil, you can't replace all of that overnight.

 

In February a lumber mill in Illinois closed. Because Canadian lumber suddenly became too expensive, after Trump's tariff terrors. This wasn't a failing mill, this was a mill that had been running for 60 years, employing 300 families. It didn't die from Canadian competition, Trump killed it. It died from bad American policy.

 

There is no surge capacity to replace Canadian imports, even analysts on Fox Business admitted it could take a decade to rebuild domestic production. And even if rebuilt, will it be competitive? So instead of protecting American jobs, tariffs will do the opposite, they will make lumber unaffordable in the middle of a housing crisis, and while America is having a political meltdown, Canada was having a strategy meeting. Trump expected the usual script, retaliation, angry press conferences, maybe a new round of tariffs. Instead Canada did something no one saw coming, no shouting, no threats, no photo ops with fingerpointing, politicians stepped up to a podium and announced a 1 billion dollar support program for Canadian lumber companies. Every company taking the money had to commit to Canada's new 25 billion dollar domestic housing program, in other words America just gave us our own lumber back and we're going to use it to fuel a big housing bill. Thanks for the favor Trump!

 

Because of silly political grand standing a kitchen renovation that cost $30,000 in January now costs $35,000. Not because there wasn't enough wood or steel but because of political theater in Washington. Multiply that by millions throughout America. Trump promised to fix the housing crisis, but instead he's destroying it. If Canada, America's closest ally with the longest undefended border could openly defy US pressure, then the question becames avoidable for the rest of the world. What's stopping us from doing the same? Maybe we don't need American approval, China took notice, the EU took notice, so did Mexico. Many other countries did too. 

 

Trump is too dim to understand that Canada has infrastructure indispensability, you can't sanction a country when you run on their oil, you can't bully a partner when you run in their electricity. Canada won't beat America by force, they'll beat America with integration. America's grid was built using cheap Canadian electricity and America just proved it's willing to hurt its own people to make a political point. American can no longer be counted upon for reliability and that's not a trade war, that is a trade crisis. America has a superpower credibility crisis. There's a moment during every empire is history when the mirror doesn't recognize the face staring back. August 1st was America's mirror moment, Trump thought he was teaching a lesson, instead Canada gave America a master class in independence.

 

While America was busy building walls Canada was busy building bridges to Mexico, to Europe, and to Asia. America barked demand for loyalty, Canada quietly earned reliability. Every new home or skyscraper you see, you're looking at Canadian lumber.

 

Here's what the next decade looks like if nothing changes. America drifts into self-imposed isolation as one partner after another quietly diversifies away from US dependence. The EU, Canada and China step into the vacuum, as the predictable hub of trade, dealing with whoever treats them fairly and the US continues its March into  irrelevance, and it's economy starts to shrink, inflation skyrockets, and joblessness becomes a major problem. 

 

The guiding principle that Trump not only ignores but has a complete lack of understanding about, is that America became the greatest economy on the planet due to a lack of tariffs, due to very low import taxes. You don't tax your way out of a deficit, the deficit is there for a reason, ignoring the reason for that deficit and simply focusing on the symptoms is a recipe for disaster. We'll have to call it the Trump economy, we will have to call it the Trump depression, and we will have to call Trump the worst and most destructive  president America has ever seen. 

 The big cry baby just can't handle criticism of any sort even when it's truth and even when it's absolutely correct. Reagan knew what he was talking about with regard to tariffs, and Trump simply does not have a clue, and knows nothing about globalization, nor the inherent ecosystems within globalization. 

Carney has outsmarted Trump at every single turn and the highest quality lumber in the world is no longer available to the U.S and as being sold China and the EU. The oil and gas that the U.S. used to get easily from Canada is now going elsewhere, same applies to the aluminum, the steel, and the rare earth materials that the U.S. no longer has access to, due to sheer stupidity, a victim mentality, and spectacular levels of ignorance on the part of the biggest snowflake in America. 

He does not get it. But, he will eventually. US influence is not what it used to be. And they will pay a huge price for his isolationism, ignorance, arrogance, tariffs (tax hikes), environmental recklessness, and unwillingness to abide by the law. 

Trump is threatening to impose tariffs on rivals and allies alike, without any satisfactory explanation of why one is being tariffed and the other not, and regardless of how such tariffs might hurt U.S. industry and consumers. It’s a total mess. As the Ford Motor chief executive Jim Farley courageously (compared to other chief executives) pointed out, “Let’s be real honest: Long term, a 25 percent tariff across the Mexico and Canada borders would blow a hole in the U.S. industry that we’ve never seen.”

So, either Trump wants to blow that hole, or he’s bluffing, or he is clueless. If it is the latter, Trump is going to get a crash course in the hard realities of the global economy as it really is — not how he imagines it.

Ecosystems? Listen a bit to Beinhocker, who is also the executive director of the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School. In the real world, he argues, “There is no such thing as the American economy anymore that you can identify in any real, tangible way. There’s just this accounting fiction that we call U.S. G.D.P.” To be sure, he says, “There are American interests in the economy. There are American workers. There are American consumers. There are firms based in America. But there is no American economy in that isolated sense.”

The old days, he added, “where you made wine and I made cheese, and you had everything you needed to make wine and I had everything I needed to make cheese and so we traded with each other — which made us both better off, as Adam Smith taught — those days are long gone.” Except in Trump’s head.

Instead, there is a global web of commercial, manufacturing, services and trading “ecosystems,” explains Beinhocker. “There is an automobile ecosystem. There’s an A.I. ecosystem. There’s a smartphone ecosystem. There’s a drug development ecosystem. There is the chip-making ecosystem.” And the people, parts and knowledge that make up those ecosystems all move back and forth across many economies.

As NPR noted in a recent story about the auto industry, “carmakers have built a vast, complicated supply chain that spans North America, with parts crossing back and forth across borders throughout the auto manufacturing process. … Some parts cross borders multiple times — like, say, a wire that is manufactured in the U.S., sent to Mexico to be bundled into a group of wires, and then back to the U.S. for installation into a bigger piece of a car, like a seat.”

Trump just waves off all of this. He told reporters that the U.S. is not reliant on Canada. “We don’t need them to make our cars,” he said.

Actually, we do. And thank goodness for that. It not only enables us to make cars cheaper, but also better. All that a Model T did was get you from point to point faster than a horse, but today’s cars offer you heating and cooling and entertainment from the internet and satellites. They will navigate for you and even drive for you — and they’re much safer. When we can combine more complex knowledge and complex parts to solve complex problems, our quality of life soars.

But here’s the catch. You cannot make complex stuff alone anymore. It’s too complex. In regard to both Canada and China, they are winning the war that the goombah started. America was already in a state of rapid decline, Don just accelerated that. This clip starkly shows the difference in improvements in infrastructure between the lowly US, and their Chinese counterpart. Not world class. Not by a long shot. Woe is America. Such massive delusion and hubris. 

China VS the US.

https://youtu.be/rSgvI1ELfqQ?si=ZdVepEu0gxzhWXjb

Mike i think you make some really great comments on here. Just like this one. Only issue is you have to stop with the name calling.

Be better than those you criticize. 😁

I look forward to reading more from you.

8 hours ago, wavodavo said:

That might be so but action is not something that's in the EU'S playbook as they are a hopeless case and not worth a cold pie or a pinch of chicken **** .

Wow. With respect, I quote a Danish politician lately: F..CK OFF.

On 1/22/2026 at 8:13 PM, ASEAN NOW News said:

Facing mounting challenges, Carney pledged swift action on the nation’s cost-of-living crisis and advancing crucial infrastructure projects. Yet, the specter of sovereignty referendums in Alberta and Quebec looms, testing national unity.

Cost of living crisis is getting worse by the day. A year into his term and it keeps rising.

Is that what they mean by swift action ?

Donald Trump has threatened to impose a 100% tariff on goods imported from Canada if the north American country makes a trade deal with China.

While Trump has waged a trade war over the past year, Canada this month negotiated a deal to lower tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles in return for lower import taxes on Canadian farm products. The president initially said that agreement was what Carney "should be doing and it's a good thing for him to sign a trade deal".

But in his latest rant, Trump said China would "eat Canada alive, completely devour it, including the destruction of their businesses, social fabric, and general way of life". He added: "If Canada makes a deal with China, it will immediately be hit with a 100% Tariff against all Canadian goods and products coming into the U.S.A."

Trump threatens Canada with 100% tariffs over trade deal with China

Perhaps now is the time for all countries to stand with Canada and threaten the US with 100% tariffs except that won't happen (unless they are targeted) as its a stupid thing to do because all its doing is taxing its own citizens.

There are better ways to teach the petulant clown a lesson.

The US is about to leave NATO and expose the City of London and European Globalists as the biggest threat to America. The consequence is that the British Commonwealth will be identified as the enemy of the USA. Not the UK, nor the British or the European people, but the secret power structure behind the Commonwealth and the Globalist collaborators who support them. There is a very real distinction between these groups that will matter when the war ends, but in the beginning it will be very muddy.

Canada is going to be forced to choose whether they will side with the USA, or they will side with the British Commonwealth. This the final battle of the War for Independence that began in 1776. Canada is not going to be allowed to take a neutral position on this, as the US cannot accept an enemy on its northern border.

It's fine, even commendable, to be proud of your Canadian heritage. Just get ready for what is coming, because a lot is about to be revealed to you. Trump securing the US bases on Greenland before exiting NATO was the last step in a long preparation for the final battle. The stage is now set, and you are on the front line of the battle.

5 hours ago, Oliver Holzerfilled said:

Nothing is sure in life but death, taxes and Spidermike using known Chinese and Iranian state propaganda in his USA threads. At least three times I've noticed and I barely read any of his thousands of posts.

The foreigners in China’s disinformation drive

Foreigners are increasingly appearing on YouTube promoting China's narrative on issues like Xinjiang.

Just another in a long line of millions of Americans who simply cannot handle criticism, and are intolerant of any sort of objective discussion about US policy, and unwilling and unprepared to discuss the declining quality of life in America.

3 hours ago, blaze master said:

Mike i think you make some really great comments on here. Just like this one. Only issue is you have to stop with the name calling.

Be better than those you criticize. 😁

I look forward to reading more from you.

Thanks. Was it the reference to Trump being a whiny cry baby?

3 hours ago, Leopold Bloom said:

Not just Chinese and Iranian, but in that sermon he just delivered he quoted from Georgi Dimitrov, one of Stalin's closest allies during the 1937 purges of the party, and one of the leading (no, THE leading) European communists between 1935 and 1945.

You could say that, as a top Stalinist, Dimitrov was an expert in cancel culture, which, as in Soviet days, is now the preferred way of dealing with anyone with whom you disagree.

And it was a great example to demonstrate how Trump has embraced Marxist ideology, when it comes to the expert use of propaganda.