If there is anything funny – and I mean funny strange here – about the current tariff dispute between the Trudeau government and President Donald Trump it is the repetition by all interested parties in Canada to continue to give the Liberals a pass for their “border security plan.” To begin with, I say the fight is between Justin Trudeau and Trump and not Canada and the US because this is a highly personal matter between the two men. Trudeau could have ended this dispute on the night he invited himself to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago lair and did the embarrassing photo op with the president-elect.
It was obviously a fruitless night of conversation and not negotiation because Trudeau did not come back to Canada with any commitment to satisfy Trump’s demand that Canada do something about its porous border that simultaneously allows illegals to cross into Canada from the US and provides easy access for illegals – a significant number of which are terrorists – to enter the United States. Trump announced that a 25% tariff against all Canadian goods will proceed by Feb. 1.
Instead, Trudeau cooked up a scheme that he must have thought would either satisfy or fool Trump and included an “investment” of $1.3 billion in the long overdue Fall Economic Statement that was literally printed and delivered into the hands of the media and MPs just days before autumn turned into winter. Even though most of the mainstream media reported that this funding would be spread out over SIX years, nobody really read the fine print of the document that indicated most of the money would be spent in the fourth, fifth and sixth year of the program and very little in the first two years when of course it would be most required to demonstrate some degree of good faith to the Trump administration in order to avoid the promised 25% tariff that was promised if good faith was not delivered along with literal and tangible border security measures.
Looking at the ridiculous allocation of taxpayer dollars it is clear that this is a facade or a bad joke.
“Securing Our Borders” is a line item under section 3.1 that deals with “Safer, Healthier Communities.” None of the items described herein, with the exception of the border security line, have anything to do with safer or healthier communities and everything to do with more of Trudeau’s identity politics and woke policies.
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Trudeau clearly wants a trade war and to frame the coming federal election as a battle between us and them, or more precisely, Canada, as represented by the Liberal Party, and the US as led by Trump. That’s the only way he, his successor and the Liberals can hope to defeat the Conservatives. That has been the plan long before Trump even started talking about his dissatisfaction with Canada’s borders. That’s why Team Trudeau has done virtually nothing on border security, except for having the RCMP buy Chinese drones in December (they are now saying they are buying American drones, since the USA is passing a bill to outlaw Chinese drones due to the security risk).
Do the Trudeau Liberals think Donald Trump and his staff cannot read the publicly available fall economic statement with all the woke line items and the massive discrepancy between Liberal talking points and what is in this “border security plan”?
The so-called border security plan cannot even get off the ground because Trudeau suspended Canadian Parliament at the same time as his so-called resignation, so the $1.3 billion spending cannot even be approved to start with. Plus, the spending is projected for 5 years into the future. In 2025 to 2026 the Liberal planned gun grab is receiving 5 times more spending than border security. And as experts continue to say, there are no more boots on the ground within this yet to be approved Trudeau’s border security plan.
The focus, instead, for the Trudeau Liberals and Ontario Premier Doug Ford has been talking about shutting off energy to the US. And why has Canada’ prime minister continued to taunt and belittle Trump?
“Trump has announced that he wants a golden age for the American economy. The federal government has continued to say, clearly, as I will, that everything is on the table if he does move forward on tariffs on Canada, as he has said, whether it be back on January 20 or on Feb. 1 or Feb. 15 is a Valentine’s Day present, or on Apr. 1, or whenever he says he’s going to do it, as he keeps repeating, two things will happen,” Trudeau told reporters during a recent retreat.
Trudeau then talked about Canada having “a strong, robust response, because we don’t want this, but we will respond if necessary. And two, prices for American consumers on just about everything will go up, and we don’t think he wants that.” Trudeau then revealed his contempt for Trump saying the president “has talked about the border as being a great preoccupation for him.” The angrier that Trudeau makes Trump, the more Trump helps the Liberals by becoming the very embodiment of the American bogeyman that leftist Canadians have always loved to hate. The Official Opposition must respond and lead Canada into the next election. They need to form a legitimate government that can truly promote Canadian interests.
Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has been put into the uncomfortable position of defending Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and her insistence that the federal government does not control provincial natural resources while advocating for retaliatory tariffs. Trudeau has demonized Smith and accused her of putting her interests and those of Alberta of Canada. He has suggested that both she and Poilievre are working for Trump and not Canada. Concomitant with this lie, Trudeau has also co-opted Ontario Premier Doug Ford for his Liberal team. Ford has shamelessly repeated Liberal talking points that he has embraced. Ford, of course, is a faux conservative who has supported all of the Trudeau government’s darkest policies.
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Poilievre cannot allow himself to be co-opted or become another spokesman for Team Trudeau. He must present himself as not only the prime minister in waiting but the only federal leader who can effectively negotiate with Trump on behalf of Canada. This is fundamental to Conservative fortunes in the next election. The Liberals will stop at nothing to try to resuscitate their dying party and toxic brand. All leadership candidates are suggesting they represent a new beginning while front-runner Mark Carney has the unmitigated gall to suggest he is an “outsider.”
Poilievre has seized the moment and began to offer some substantive policy ideas. He told CTV News that “he would retaliate” to any Trump tariff and “would target products and services that A, we don’t need, B, we can make ourselves and C, that we can buy elsewhere, so that we maximize impact on the Americans while minimizing impact on Canadians.”
Then he outlined how he would transform the Canadian economy so that it could work in sync with Trump’s fiscal policies. He talked about a “tax cut on work, investment making stuff in Canada, energy, home building so that we can stimulate more economic growth here. Three, we need to become more self-sufficient. That means knocking down barriers. More interprovincial free trade. We have freer trade with the Americans today than we do with ourselves. We have to knock down those barriers, build pipelines, LNG, liquefaction facilities, to sell our stuff to the world without having to go through the Americans.”
Yes. This is common sense, conservative politics that will help Canada to prosper within a world dominated by Trump’s America. But Poilievre also needs to acknowledge that Trudeau and the Liberals and Canada continue to fail on the border. The necessary work has not been done and Trump knows it. He needs to tell Trump that the age of Trudeau is over and it will not be extended by a replacement Liberal leader. If Trudeau will not apologize for his arrogance and rudeness then Poilievre should apologize on his behalf. The Trudeau government is deeply corrupt and thoroughly mendacious.
Poilievre needs to continue to hit back with the necessary ferocity and determination to win.
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Protests in Los Angeles continued into Thursday night as tensions died down across the West Coast ahead of thousands of anti-Trump demonstrations planned for Saturday — the “No Kings Day” event is set to take place coast-to-coast amid civil unrest nationwide.
The Los Angeles Police Department posted to X as the 8 p.m. curfew went into effect Thursday, reporting that protesters were throwing “bricks, concrete and commercial grade fireworks.” The agency said less lethal munitions have been authorized and “may cause pain and discomfort.
The curfew covers an area where demonstrators have spent days protesting President Donald Trump’s immigration raids and the deployment of the California National Guard. A federal judge blocked his use of the guard late Thursday, but did not rule on the Marines also deployed there.
Gov. Gavin Newsom held a press conference in San Francisco shortly after the ruling, calling out Trump for deploying the guard without his consent. U.S. District Judge Charles R. Breyer’s preliminary injunction takes effect Friday, at which point Newsom will resume control of his National Guard.
“This is what he does. He creates a problem, and then he tries to be a hero in his own Marvel movie. He initiated those raids,” Newsom said of Trump’s actions. “He significantly increased the scale and scope of those raids. That’s why he wants the National Guard, hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of guardsmen and women, now being dispersed everywhere.”
The Trump administration filed an intent to appeal Breyer’s ruling shortly after. In the meantime, the guard will go back to its regular duties on Friday instead of guarding the federal immigration in downtown Los Angeles, only one day before thousands of protests nationwide against Trump.
According to a press release, the LAPD arrested 71 people for failure to disperse Wednesday night into Thursday morning, and intends to post another update Friday morning. Seven others were also arrested for violating the curfew, and two for assaulting an officer with a deadly weapon.
Protesters filmed live streams on YouTube leading up to the curfew, reporting that some people were arrested and that they heard munitions being fired. Some demonstrators encouraged the group to disperse, adding that escalating things may be what the administration is waiting for.
The Los Angeles Department of Transportation posted to social media Thursday evening that it had cut services short for the day in response to the protests. LAPD vehicles were seen lining the streets, with officers ready to issue arrests in the event of further unrest or curfew violations.
In some live streams, officers were seen issuing arrests just 30 minutes after the 8 p.m. curfew, and in some instances, towing away vehicles. Another protest in Salt Lake City, Utah, kicked off at 6 p.m. on Thursday after the Party for Socialism & Liberation called for demonstrations there.
The Salt Lake Police Department told KSL News Radio that the demonstration of roughly 600 people was mostly peaceful, aside from a damaged Tesla. Officers broke up some fights and remained on scene as it died down around 8:30 p.m., Brian Will with KUTV 2 News reported.
“So we’re going to have an order on that pretty soon – we can’t do that to our farmers and leisure too, hotels, we’re going to have to use a lot of common sense on that.”
President Donald Trump said Thursday that changes are coming to his aggressive immigration policies after complaints from farmers and business owners.
“Our great Farmers and people in the Hotel and Leisure business have been stating that our very aggressive policy on immigration is taking very good, long time workers away from them, with those jobs being almost impossible to replace,” Trump wrote in a social media post Thursday morning. “In many cases the Criminals allowed into our Country by the VERY Stupid Biden Open Borders Policy are applying for those jobs. This is not good. We must protect our Farmers, but get the CRIMINALS OUT OF THE USA. Changes are coming!”
Later Thursday, Trump made it clear that businesses need workers.
“Our farmers are being hurt badly. They have very good workers – they’re not citizens, but they’ve turned out to be great. And we’re going to have to do something about that,” the president said.
He added: “We can’t take farmers and take all their people and send them back because they don’t have, maybe, what they’re supposed to have.”
Just how Trump may change his approach to immigration enforcement remains unclear, but he said he wants to help farmers and business owners.
“You go into a farm and you look and people, they’ve been there for 20 or 25 years and they work great and the owner of the farm loves them and you’re supposed to throw them out. You know what happens? They end up hiring the criminals that have come in, the murderers from prisons and everything else,” Trump said.
Trump said changes would be coming soon, but gave little detail on how policies could change.
“So we’re going to have an order on that pretty soon – we can’t do that to our farmers and leisure too, hotels, we’re going to have to use a lot of common sense on that.”
In a later post on Truth Social, Trump said illegal immigration had destroyed American institutions.
“Biden let 21 Million Unvetted, Illegal Aliens flood into the Country from some of the most dangerous and dysfunctional Nations on Earth — Many of them Rapists, Murderers, and Terrorists. This tsunami of Illegals has destroyed Americans’ Public Schools, Hospitals, Parks, Community Resources, and Living Conditions,” the president wrote. “They have stolen American Jobs, consumed BILLIONS OF DOLLARS in Free Welfare, and turned once idyllic Communities, like Springfield, Ohio, into Third World Nightmares.”
He added that deportations would continue: “I campaigned on, and received a Historic Mandate for, the largest Mass Deportation Program in American History. Polling shows overwhelming Public Support for getting the Illegals out, and that is exactly what we will do. As Commander-in-Chief, I will always protect and defend the Heroes of ICE and Border Patrol, whose work has already resulted in the Most Secure Border in American History. Anyone who assaults or attacks an ICE or Border Agent will do hard time in jail. Those who are here illegally should either self deport using the CBP Home App or, ICE will find you and remove you. Saving America is not negotiable!”
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