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 last year, now costs $40,000. 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, along with the US economy, and the nation's relevancy to the entire planet. Nations all over the world are simply finding more reliable partners.
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