Where is Con Carney’s Transparency he speaks of so justifiably?! He lied about US not wanting French on Goods. He has made deals with CCP China in Trade deals. Throwing Canada into economic turmoil. His WEF Globalist Agenda to wipe out Western Countries with his Communist Values along side The City of London. Filling his pockets Brooksfield every country he visits. Ask yourself why does he and his family live in the US and holds 97% of his investments in the USA. He knows exactly what is in his Blind Trust. He has no interest in Canada or Canadians. Using you for his own Political and Financial gain. You are being used and fleeced.
Yes they have. Failed as Trump is trying to STOP CCP China from walking into Canada with full on Trades with Carney. To which he has negotiated with before hand. It will be the back door into N America for Full On Communism. #2 its about both by-elections to get the far left Dem/Lib’s to stay in power for the CCP New World Oder WEF & City of London. WAKE UP!
In a phone call with CNN’s Jim Sciutto Tuesday, Trump suggested that the U.S. added new conditions in its trade negotiations with Canada at the 11th hour ahead of last week’s deadline.
I’m astonished by the almost unanimous agreement among journalists that the deal was a bad one for Canada. The fact is we don’t know and won’t know until the details are released, which is unlikely to happen here. The liberals are not very transparent at the best of times and they had major political incentives to have the deal fail. It may in fact be that the deal was the best we can get and that overall it would have been of benefit to most of the country. We may never know and no one is pressing Carney to come clean.
I’m also astonished by the widespread perception that the US is unfairly targeting Canada and that we deserve a tariff free deal. The complete failure to see that the US has adopted a new position on trade that has impacted all of its trading relationships (and will continue to do so no matter which party is in power - they need the revenue to offset their deficits) speaks to an embarrassingly inflated opinion amongst the population of Canadas place in the OECD and a failure to understand the world outside of the lens of CNN and CBC.
Finally, I’m astonished by the glee with which the political class and the general public have greeted the counter tariffs. This can only reflect a complete ignorance as to who they negatively impact - Canadian businesses and consumers - and how little they will hurt the US. That said, it also reflects the willingness of the politicians and population to spend, spend, spend and to be fine with more and more people and companies on the government dole.
None of course. I’m not a journalist. But I am an individual who consumes information from a wide variety of sources (including your substack and columns), from both mainstream and independent media in Canada, the US and the UK. You could be right about the trade deal. I will continue to withhold judgment until there is full transparency, so I suspect I may wait a very long time.
I'm not seeing glee from the political class and much of the Canadian public, so much as seething anger, the former stoking the latter into a lather. I am concerned by both the quickness of the Prime Minister to frame this impasse as a trade war, (mere hours after the Liberals indicated last week that a trade deal was imminent) and the lack of information provided by key political leaders on the specifics of the fallout.
Outrage is the cheap counterfeit of responsibility. Discount the utter crudeness of one Doug Ford (who has since backed away from his immature public statements), what good is there in stoking the emotions of Canadians, and to what end? If, under a worst-case scenario, Ottawa is unable (or unwilling) secure to trade deal with the United States, where do we go from there? It will take a decade, if not longer, to turn our economy around. Ottawa cannot simply borrow its way through the lingering and lasting turbulence to tide affected industries over. What's the plan?
I want to hear more from the Prime Minister, with specifics on what led to his decision to walk away. We need more transparency, a missing ingredient in Ottawa for the public to make informed decisions...
I agree with your comment, however, is it too much to ask for the details to be released? A final document would have been available. This is a failed o e, so it is not covered by a NDA, or requiring any security clearances. Stating how many have you spoken to was just a little bit arrogant! I follow you because you are different don't change, Canadians want to understand, as you said it is Canadians that will bear the brunt of this. And still our federal government send monies overseas whilst Canadians are struggling.
We need transparency, not platitudes or arrogance or "trust me I'm your PM".
Poilievre is right about what needs to be done, you reiterated the points. Will Carney listen, I doubt it.
That’s a really ignorant reply to Ms Lantzen. Brian. I expect better from you. The political response from all government is predictably? Political. And peurile. I’m annoyed that a man of your stature would respond with such a callow remark to a subscriber.
I'm pushing for Carney to release more details, I have been since the weekend. But don't lump me in with people just accepting things. I work the sources that I have and as I said, people in five different provincial governments were saying it was a bad deal, plus what we know publicly, tells me it was a bad deal. Just because you don't like Carney doesn't mean you should automatically trust Trump and too many Canadians on the right are making that mistake.
Very interesting and I believe to be exactly correct. More people need to see this, and realize we have been and are being fleeced and robbed of our future by the Davos Crew. Meanwhile the CCP are ever so silently maneuvering there way by the back door(Canada) of the US, and Trump knows all too well that Carney has left the door wide open!
I trust your reporting, but you say spoke to federal officials and make no mention of their responses. If the federal government wants us to trust them, they should throw us a bone.
Elaborate on the proposed wording that was more limiting than CUSMA Article 32.10.
25% on trucks is bad, but now we have 50% on all auto. What did we sacrifice auto for?
My go-to tin-hat theory involves dairy. Clear the air on supply management.
Brian, that’s assuming they are telling you the truth which I highly doubt. I think it’s very nieve for you to trust any one in the government to tell the truth as they are preoccupied with preserving their power. I see you have now gone on the TDS bandwagon and it’s very disappointing but not surprising
Donald Trump has been consistent about one thing for 45 years: that is, his contention that other countries have been taking advantage of the USA with respect to trade. That America protects world trade and the rest of the world takes it for granted.
This may be true, it may be false, or the truth may be somewhere in between. But no one should have been surprised that Donald Trump is a mercantilist who is opposed to free trade.
Also a good reply, however I think we can be a bit more definitive than "This may be true, it may be false, or the truth may be somewhere in between". It's a fact that the US has a massive trade deficit with the rest of the world, which is what Trump is trying to affect. Whether his approach will work, only time will tell.
Brian Lilley Kim is correct. Cut to the chase : we need a trade deal. We prosper with one.
Carney sells hate and division. He doesn’t care about your prosperity. Only his. And he sold out to China long ago. China is “an existential threat”. Really.
My advice Mr Lilley, is flog the hell out of your presence on social media You Tube. Substack. Facebook. X.
Because as Corus is failing and carney subsidizes media including Postmedia he will run out of money and runaway out of Canada. .
Postmedia and others will go broke or return to USA. Your job gone.
Am talk radio is on life support. Global barely making it. CTV suck up to carney for help, but when he leaves ? CBC? Is to laugh
Every day Canadians are being pillaged by taxation.
I remember a time before we had a free trade deal and we were fine. Canada won’t end without a deal, there will be some tough times but we will adjust.
And the timing was so inconvenient for carny!! He was on vacation!! Of course he was in a bad mood! He already hates Canadians, but cut a guy's vacation short and what do you expect!! Alot of “leaders” would be home taking charge of the pesky trade talks, but not carny!!! He was “home” in Europe, basking in the sun, eating thousands of dollars of meals, all on the taxpayers dime! Oh and those taxpayers have to spend more on gas next week because king carn needs more vacations!
No, Canadians want access to the market at a reasonable rate. There are a lot of issues, especially with food products coming out of the states. The others, we should be able to work through. Canada would get a far better deal if it was actually developing its resources as it should be. Expecting Canadians to simply roll over because you are the US is simply foolish. Canada would have been better served if a deal was made 14 months ago. This is a lose-lose scenario, and yes, Canada will lose more.
So you can open retail bank branches (1,600) in the US, but American banks can't do the same in Canada? You can export dairy to us, but we can't do the same? Canada has grown spoiled to access to the US. Those days are over. Time for Canada to stand on its own two feet.
*”Up to 75 per cent of U.S. dairy farms fall under a federal regime that sets a minimum price for their raw milk. That is further buttressed by a heavily subsidized government insurance program that protects farmers’ profit margins when feed prices rise; it paid out $1.3-billion in 2023.
Overall, as much as 20 per cent of their revenues come from direct subsidies, and they benefit additionally from indirect subsidies for feed and irrigation.” Globe and Mail editorial, July 31, 2025.
US tariffs on Canada's exports equals higher prices for those Canadian exports for American consumers. Not good for Canadian exporters. Canadian tariffs on US exports equals higher prices for those American exports for Canada's buyers. Not good for Canadian consumers. I do not see how any of this could be considered a great idea for Canadian affordability. What kind of childish zero sum game are these imbeciles playing? Canadians lose in either scenario.
No I don’t trust the very dangerous and corrupt government. Carney is a pathological liar who uses fraudulent logic to steal hard working people’s money. He needs to step down
Carney needs to fire up Quebec voters thus his bs about language that the U.S. negotiators are saying is not true, as did Trump. He also wants to hurt Trump in midterms.
If only Trudeau had gone to Mar-A-Lago in late 2024 with plans to combat Canada's fentanyl industry and to go back to background checks on immigrants. Both would have benefitted Canada and might have appeased Trump. But he just went for a selfie, and was probably looking for an opportunity to pirouette.
No!
Where is Con Carney’s Transparency he speaks of so justifiably?! He lied about US not wanting French on Goods. He has made deals with CCP China in Trade deals. Throwing Canada into economic turmoil. His WEF Globalist Agenda to wipe out Western Countries with his Communist Values along side The City of London. Filling his pockets Brooksfield every country he visits. Ask yourself why does he and his family live in the US and holds 97% of his investments in the USA. He knows exactly what is in his Blind Trust. He has no interest in Canada or Canadians. Using you for his own Political and Financial gain. You are being used and fleeced.
Yes they have. Failed as Trump is trying to STOP CCP China from walking into Canada with full on Trades with Carney. To which he has negotiated with before hand. It will be the back door into N America for Full On Communism. #2 its about both by-elections to get the far left Dem/Lib’s to stay in power for the CCP New World Oder WEF & City of London. WAKE UP!
In a phone call with CNN’s Jim Sciutto Tuesday, Trump suggested that the U.S. added new conditions in its trade negotiations with Canada at the 11th hour ahead of last week’s deadline.
“That sounds like me,” Trump said.
CNN is like MSM
I’m astonished by the almost unanimous agreement among journalists that the deal was a bad one for Canada. The fact is we don’t know and won’t know until the details are released, which is unlikely to happen here. The liberals are not very transparent at the best of times and they had major political incentives to have the deal fail. It may in fact be that the deal was the best we can get and that overall it would have been of benefit to most of the country. We may never know and no one is pressing Carney to come clean.
I’m also astonished by the widespread perception that the US is unfairly targeting Canada and that we deserve a tariff free deal. The complete failure to see that the US has adopted a new position on trade that has impacted all of its trading relationships (and will continue to do so no matter which party is in power - they need the revenue to offset their deficits) speaks to an embarrassingly inflated opinion amongst the population of Canadas place in the OECD and a failure to understand the world outside of the lens of CNN and CBC.
Finally, I’m astonished by the glee with which the political class and the general public have greeted the counter tariffs. This can only reflect a complete ignorance as to who they negatively impact - Canadian businesses and consumers - and how little they will hurt the US. That said, it also reflects the willingness of the politicians and population to spend, spend, spend and to be fine with more and more people and companies on the government dole.
I’ve spoken to federal officials and provincial officials across five different provinces about the deal.
If five different provinces with different parties representing them all say the same thing, then maybe they are onto something.
How many different provincial governments have you spoken to?
None of course. I’m not a journalist. But I am an individual who consumes information from a wide variety of sources (including your substack and columns), from both mainstream and independent media in Canada, the US and the UK. You could be right about the trade deal. I will continue to withhold judgment until there is full transparency, so I suspect I may wait a very long time.
I'm not seeing glee from the political class and much of the Canadian public, so much as seething anger, the former stoking the latter into a lather. I am concerned by both the quickness of the Prime Minister to frame this impasse as a trade war, (mere hours after the Liberals indicated last week that a trade deal was imminent) and the lack of information provided by key political leaders on the specifics of the fallout.
Outrage is the cheap counterfeit of responsibility. Discount the utter crudeness of one Doug Ford (who has since backed away from his immature public statements), what good is there in stoking the emotions of Canadians, and to what end? If, under a worst-case scenario, Ottawa is unable (or unwilling) secure to trade deal with the United States, where do we go from there? It will take a decade, if not longer, to turn our economy around. Ottawa cannot simply borrow its way through the lingering and lasting turbulence to tide affected industries over. What's the plan?
I want to hear more from the Prime Minister, with specifics on what led to his decision to walk away. We need more transparency, a missing ingredient in Ottawa for the public to make informed decisions...
Exactly. Well said.
I agree with your comment, however, is it too much to ask for the details to be released? A final document would have been available. This is a failed o e, so it is not covered by a NDA, or requiring any security clearances. Stating how many have you spoken to was just a little bit arrogant! I follow you because you are different don't change, Canadians want to understand, as you said it is Canadians that will bear the brunt of this. And still our federal government send monies overseas whilst Canadians are struggling.
We need transparency, not platitudes or arrogance or "trust me I'm your PM".
Poilievre is right about what needs to be done, you reiterated the points. Will Carney listen, I doubt it.
That’s a really ignorant reply to Ms Lantzen. Brian. I expect better from you. The political response from all government is predictably? Political. And peurile. I’m annoyed that a man of your stature would respond with such a callow remark to a subscriber.
I'm pushing for Carney to release more details, I have been since the weekend. But don't lump me in with people just accepting things. I work the sources that I have and as I said, people in five different provincial governments were saying it was a bad deal, plus what we know publicly, tells me it was a bad deal. Just because you don't like Carney doesn't mean you should automatically trust Trump and too many Canadians on the right are making that mistake.
https://elizabethnickson.substack.com/p/us-median-income-90k-canadian-60k?r=kgcei&utm_medium=ios
Very interesting and I believe to be exactly correct. More people need to see this, and realize we have been and are being fleeced and robbed of our future by the Davos Crew. Meanwhile the CCP are ever so silently maneuvering there way by the back door(Canada) of the US, and Trump knows all too well that Carney has left the door wide open!
Brian in this case you should have just said sorry. Move on
Do keep in mind that government officials, from all levels, tend to drink the same kool-aid.
Why is Carney not releasing the details to the public, or at least to Parliament? (I know, parliament?? what's that)
WHO, which federal officials, I spoke to my cat this morning, Brian! Doug Ford, running interference for Carney and his handler Kory Teneycke????
I trust your reporting, but you say spoke to federal officials and make no mention of their responses. If the federal government wants us to trust them, they should throw us a bone.
Elaborate on the proposed wording that was more limiting than CUSMA Article 32.10.
25% on trucks is bad, but now we have 50% on all auto. What did we sacrifice auto for?
My go-to tin-hat theory involves dairy. Clear the air on supply management.
Brian, that’s assuming they are telling you the truth which I highly doubt. I think it’s very nieve for you to trust any one in the government to tell the truth as they are preoccupied with preserving their power. I see you have now gone on the TDS bandwagon and it’s very disappointing but not surprising
Good post.
Good reasoning.
Donald Trump has been consistent about one thing for 45 years: that is, his contention that other countries have been taking advantage of the USA with respect to trade. That America protects world trade and the rest of the world takes it for granted.
This may be true, it may be false, or the truth may be somewhere in between. But no one should have been surprised that Donald Trump is a mercantilist who is opposed to free trade.
Once again, we were unprepared.
Completely agree.
Also a good reply, however I think we can be a bit more definitive than "This may be true, it may be false, or the truth may be somewhere in between". It's a fact that the US has a massive trade deficit with the rest of the world, which is what Trump is trying to affect. Whether his approach will work, only time will tell.
Solid post.
That is definitely his position, and he has never wavered on that point.
Brian Lilley Kim is correct. Cut to the chase : we need a trade deal. We prosper with one.
Carney sells hate and division. He doesn’t care about your prosperity. Only his. And he sold out to China long ago. China is “an existential threat”. Really.
My advice Mr Lilley, is flog the hell out of your presence on social media You Tube. Substack. Facebook. X.
Because as Corus is failing and carney subsidizes media including Postmedia he will run out of money and runaway out of Canada. .
Postmedia and others will go broke or return to USA. Your job gone.
Am talk radio is on life support. Global barely making it. CTV suck up to carney for help, but when he leaves ? CBC? Is to laugh
Every day Canadians are being pillaged by taxation.
How many houses has carney built?
How many expired visa holders this year?
FIVE MILLION
No tracking.
I remember a time before we had a free trade deal and we were fine. Canada won’t end without a deal, there will be some tough times but we will adjust.
Our pensions are at stake. Government borrowing drives inflation which reduces the value of everybody's savings.
Not the pensions of the elbows up retired baby boomer civil servants.
True, they must receive their reward for a career of indolence.
I am liking #Canada less and less every day that the #Canadian Federal #Liberals are in power.
Carney did not want a deal….much more advantageous to blame President Trump for the economic mess the Liberals have created.
And the timing was so inconvenient for carny!! He was on vacation!! Of course he was in a bad mood! He already hates Canadians, but cut a guy's vacation short and what do you expect!! Alot of “leaders” would be home taking charge of the pesky trade talks, but not carny!!! He was “home” in Europe, basking in the sun, eating thousands of dollars of meals, all on the taxpayers dime! Oh and those taxpayers have to spend more on gas next week because king carn needs more vacations!
Canada has been conditioned to think they have some inherent right to free access to the U.S. market.
You make a good point.
We have also been conditioned to believe that we are fair traders-free traders in good faith- when that is clearly not the case.
No, Canadians want access to the market at a reasonable rate. There are a lot of issues, especially with food products coming out of the states. The others, we should be able to work through. Canada would get a far better deal if it was actually developing its resources as it should be. Expecting Canadians to simply roll over because you are the US is simply foolish. Canada would have been better served if a deal was made 14 months ago. This is a lose-lose scenario, and yes, Canada will lose more.
And Americans seem to think they should have free access to our market, sorry it’s a two way street.
So you can open retail bank branches (1,600) in the US, but American banks can't do the same in Canada? You can export dairy to us, but we can't do the same? Canada has grown spoiled to access to the US. Those days are over. Time for Canada to stand on its own two feet.
Stop with the dairy. The US has over $600 million trade SURPLUS with Canada in dairy AND they massively subsidize their own farmers. (https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/article/why-is-the-us-mad-about-who-sells-cheese-in-canada/)
*”Up to 75 per cent of U.S. dairy farms fall under a federal regime that sets a minimum price for their raw milk. That is further buttressed by a heavily subsidized government insurance program that protects farmers’ profit margins when feed prices rise; it paid out $1.3-billion in 2023.
Overall, as much as 20 per cent of their revenues come from direct subsidies, and they benefit additionally from indirect subsidies for feed and irrigation.” Globe and Mail editorial, July 31, 2025.
The US is onshoring. They can and will replace Canadian products if we decide to confront them.
US tariffs on Canada's exports equals higher prices for those Canadian exports for American consumers. Not good for Canadian exporters. Canadian tariffs on US exports equals higher prices for those American exports for Canada's buyers. Not good for Canadian consumers. I do not see how any of this could be considered a great idea for Canadian affordability. What kind of childish zero sum game are these imbeciles playing? Canadians lose in either scenario.
#CANADA
#MarkCarney the Master Negotiator? Not so far?
More like ‘Master No-go Bedshitter’?
#IntentionalIncompetence is
#Treason?
No I don’t trust the very dangerous and corrupt government. Carney is a pathological liar who uses fraudulent logic to steal hard working people’s money. He needs to step down
Carney needs to fire up Quebec voters thus his bs about language that the U.S. negotiators are saying is not true, as did Trump. He also wants to hurt Trump in midterms.
This guy is a WEF pawn.
Carney is a liar with this, bridge deal etc..
#Canada... is
#intentionalincompetence by the #MarkCarney #Canadian Federal #Liberal Government, actually a form of #treason?
Sorry, Canada. You have no cards.
You’ve been freeloading of the US for too long and now your sins are catching up to you.
You’re wrong. Oil, natural gas, lumber, uranium, steel, aluminum, potash, electricity seem like pretty good cards to me.
The Prime Minister has vowed not to use leverage.
Lmao!!! And he never lies!!
#MarkCarney doesn't always win for the #WEF, but when he loses, he tries to take #Canada down with him?
The White House gives their side: https://www.whitehouse.gov/releases/2026/08/president-trump-is-finally-ending-canadas-free-ride/
If only Trudeau had gone to Mar-A-Lago in late 2024 with plans to combat Canada's fentanyl industry and to go back to background checks on immigrants. Both would have benefitted Canada and might have appeased Trump. But he just went for a selfie, and was probably looking for an opportunity to pirouette.
I supported the idea of him going to Mar-a-Lago at the time to try and make smooth things over with Trump.
Sadly, he took the wrong message and made things worse.
Carney needs to fire up Quebec voters thus his bs about language that the U.S. negotiators are saying is not true, as did Trump.
Carney is a liar with this, bridge deal etc..