“Only in Canada can a cucumber be grown here, shipped south duty-free, jarred with a Canadian lid, and then taxed on its way home—proof that our tariff policy is about punishing consumers."
I am losing track now of the number of items that have disappeared and are not being replaced from anywhere including of course our own sorry country that seems unable these days to produce much of anything.
Currently though it is because of more than one thing.
Premiers like Doug Fraud removing products from availability.
Counter tariffs imposed by the fake elbows up negotiator.
Companies simply no longer wishing to have anything to do with us.
etc.. etc.. etc..
A once wonderful country brought to its knees by Political and Bureaucratic incompetence but primarily by Liberal incompetence and failed governance.
A theme that continues with the current head of the same snake.
Our PM doesn't actually care about Canadians or he would not have put these tariffs on that hurt Canadians. It's all about what is good politically and what he can turn around and benefit from financially.
I just read today that Mark Carney doesn't even have a constituency office open to meet the needs of his constituents.
Carney believes REAL Canadians are beneath him..he even identifies as European to everyone....personally, I identify him as an asshole..and..since he WAS born in Canada, that makes my opinion of him the more accurate one..
The "elbows up" mobs have promoted and accept massive government corruption, scandalous behavors of our Liberal "leaders" and now they are contributing to nihilist policies within the Canadian economy......
The Liberals, in their non-thinking approach to just about everything will soon reduce
Canada to a total agrarian society or more likely the Stone Age. Carney has had his lunch served to him by some lackey for so long he has no concept of a kitchen or a garden or real work. Sadly, he also has no skill in the economics or running a country or negotiating with strong powers that can either help us or leave us to expire in our own mess. However, Carney may be on his way to Sainthood, as he's managed to achieve a miracle I never thought I'd see - he's shown himself to be even more stupid than Trudeau, something that's akin to parting the Red Sea.
Does no one remember that Trudeaus Kristia Freeland was in charge of Nafta (uscm). She left the stupid dairy tariffs in place to protect the Ont and Quebec dairy billionaires. So here we are. Carney should be renegotiating although he would need permission from his EU buds.
Mark Carney and his anti-American compatriot, Pierre Poilievre, created this problem. Both campaigned on starting a trade war rather than engaging the United States in sensible trade negotiations to open our markets more fully to American competition. I hope they’re enjoying their overpriced milk. Ordinary Canadians are suffering because of them.
If you were to look at the history of the Conservative party and not just the Liberals you may find that both parties make bad policy decisions.
The Liberals made many bad decisions over the past 10 years, some worse than others like the immigration policy, way too many immigrants without facility. What lead to Trudeau's sweeping win was the unpopular Harper policies/decisions as outlined below.
Both parties contribute to our current state of affairs, period!
Stephen Harper served as Prime Minister from 2006 to 2015. And during that time, he didn’t just mismanage the economy—he sold it off, ran up massive debt, and left Canadians worse off. From 2008 through to the end of his tenure, Canada ran eight straight federal deficits, racking up $158 billion in new debt—the equivalent of $4,400 for every man, woman, and child in the country.
So much for “Conservative fiscal management.”
And while they were burying us in debt, what did the Harper Conservatives do? They sold off Canada’s economic future like it was a garage sale. No nation-building. No protection for workers. Just short-term political optics disguised as economic policy.
Here’s what they gave away:
• Nexen to China: Sold to CNOOC, a Chinese state-owned energy giant. Harper handed over oil sands access to a foreign dictatorship with zero national benefit.
• Inco to Brazil (Vale): Our mining powerhouse sold to Vale, resulting in brutal strikes, job losses, and gutted union power.
• Stelco to the U.S. (U.S. Steel): Another industry sold off—U.S. Steel shuttered Canadian operations, broke commitments, and Harper’s government let them.
• Nortel to Sweden (Ericsson): A crown jewel of Canadian innovation broken apart and handed to foreign firms. We lost patents, jobs, and an entire tech future.
• Falconbridge to Switzerland (Xstrata): Turned over to Glencore—now one of the most controversial mining conglomerates in the world.
• Canadian Wheat Board to Saudi Arabia: The end of farmer-controlled grain marketing. Sold to foreign investors. Prairie farmers lost control of their own product.
• China FIPA: A 31-year deal letting Chinese corporations sue Canada in secret tribunals if our laws interfered with their profits. We couldn’t exit the agreement without a 15-year notice clause.
The context?
While other G7 nations were reinforcing their domestic economies after the 2008 financial crash, Harper’s Conservatives were gutting ours. They chased foreign capital while weakening Canada’s industrial, technological, and agricultural sovereignty. No long-term vision. No protection for workers. No strategy. Just submission to global capital.
And the damage didn’t stop at the economic level. One Harper-era policy decision—a change to the federal transfer payment formula—cost Ontario $8.1 billion over a decade. That money should’ve gone to hospitals, classrooms, and infrastructure. Instead, it vanished thanks to Harper’s political spite.
And now he’s back—but from the shadows.
Stephen Harper is Chairman of the International Democrat Union (IDU), an alliance of global right-wing parties that includes Donald Trump’s Republican Party. He’s gone from quietly shaping Canadian conservatism to cheerleading authoritarianism on the world stage. He’s endorsed Trump’s return to power—even as democracy is under siege in the U.S.
And here at home, Harper is endorsing Pierre Poilievre—his ideological heir and political apprentice. Same playbook, same dogma, same anti-worker, pro-corporate obsession.
Poilievre was right there for it all.
He voted for Harper’s budgets. He supported the sell-offs. He backed FIPA. He stood by while Harper gutted Canada’s self-determination. And now he’s doubling down—promising deregulation, privatization, and more corporate giveaways.
Worse, he’s calling Mark Carney—a man who helped stabilize the world economy through two global crises—a “grifter.”
The projection is staggering.
The only grift happening here is Pierre Poilievre pretending to be a fiscal genius while helping Harper torch the Canadian economy for a decade.
They didn’t build. They dismantled. They didn’t lead. They liquidated. They didn’t protect Canada. They sold it off.
And now, with Harper still pulling the strings and the IDU pushing far-right authoritarianism around the globe, Poilievre is here to finish what Harper started.
We can’t afford to forget it—and we sure as hell can’t afford to let them do it again.
I haven't paid taxes worth mentioning in the last 10 years, i make sure i spend it all on equipment and farm inputs, i time my sales after new year so i have plenty time to look for ways to avoid paying taxes.
Well Living in Yukon and having to compete with the local indigenous community who have a 15% advantage in bidding kinda made it hard to compete. Retired mainly because of looking after things to My standard was becoming harder and harder. Well not only My standard ,but the bosses also {wife}. It was just My son and I in a construction company. Also We only mostly bid on government contracts as I would be assured of payment.
This tariff business is a tax scheme for the lieberals big spending and skimming habits. I've said all along that the tariffs here don't hurt the US one bit. But it sure as hell hurts us. And the liberals know it. But they could care less, as the money flows into their personal bank accounts out of the taxpayers accounts. That's part of the plan to destroy the country, which is the people. The lieberals will sit in their castles while the taxpayer is broke monetarily as well as spiritually. We will have nothing and we will be happy, under the UN leadership. Welcome to the new world order.
I think Trump know about the Brits and that is another reason for the Neocons to hate him. The allegiance of most of them is to Israel or Perfidious Albion and of course, to their bank accounts.
Doug Ford is a moron. He runs against Trump because he can't defend his own record of incompetence.
He's NOT a conservative at all. He's a Mark Carney Liberal cheerleader, implementing the same stupid policies.
Retaliatory tariffs only drives up the cost of goods in Canada. He has removed choice from the consumer because he doesn't have a clue on how to respond to the USA.
He should be challenging the Liberals to provide a budget that will deal with the economy killing policies implemented by Stupideau as well as demanding the recall of their criminal reforms that has turned our streets into killing fields because of no bail, not addressing the source of guns, non existent boarder security. His ENEMY is the Liberal party of Canada, not the US. We can't control what they do but we can get our house in order.
I am losing track now of the number of items that have disappeared and are not being replaced from anywhere including of course our own sorry country that seems unable these days to produce much of anything.
Currently though it is because of more than one thing.
Premiers like Doug Fraud removing products from availability.
Counter tariffs imposed by the fake elbows up negotiator.
Companies simply no longer wishing to have anything to do with us.
etc.. etc.. etc..
A once wonderful country brought to its knees by Political and Bureaucratic incompetence but primarily by Liberal incompetence and failed governance.
A theme that continues with the current head of the same snake.
Not incompetence, it's intentional.
Same poop, same pile.
Free Enterprise - is free trade. The free trade agreements have nothing to do with free trade.
The 1987 Canada-US FTA opened the doors to the foreign takeover of Canada's major Corporations.
1987 Canada-US FTA : PM Brian Mulroney. Conservitive
1994 NAFTA: PM Brian Mulroney. Conservitive.
2017 USMCA : PM Justin Trudeau. Liberal.
It doesn't matter who you vote for; they are all on the same team.
Our PM doesn't actually care about Canadians or he would not have put these tariffs on that hurt Canadians. It's all about what is good politically and what he can turn around and benefit from financially.
I just read today that Mark Carney doesn't even have a constituency office open to meet the needs of his constituents.
Carney believes REAL Canadians are beneath him..he even identifies as European to everyone....personally, I identify him as an asshole..and..since he WAS born in Canada, that makes my opinion of him the more accurate one..
The "elbows up" mobs have promoted and accept massive government corruption, scandalous behavors of our Liberal "leaders" and now they are contributing to nihilist policies within the Canadian economy......
The Liberals, in their non-thinking approach to just about everything will soon reduce
Canada to a total agrarian society or more likely the Stone Age. Carney has had his lunch served to him by some lackey for so long he has no concept of a kitchen or a garden or real work. Sadly, he also has no skill in the economics or running a country or negotiating with strong powers that can either help us or leave us to expire in our own mess. However, Carney may be on his way to Sainthood, as he's managed to achieve a miracle I never thought I'd see - he's shown himself to be even more stupid than Trudeau, something that's akin to parting the Red Sea.
Get to know your local farmers, and make your own, or have someone make them for you!
You mean grow your own, cucumbers are not made.
Come on Alberta, cut the umbilical cord and set yourselves free.
Does no one remember that Trudeaus Kristia Freeland was in charge of Nafta (uscm). She left the stupid dairy tariffs in place to protect the Ont and Quebec dairy billionaires. So here we are. Carney should be renegotiating although he would need permission from his EU buds.
Mark Carney and his anti-American compatriot, Pierre Poilievre, created this problem. Both campaigned on starting a trade war rather than engaging the United States in sensible trade negotiations to open our markets more fully to American competition. I hope they’re enjoying their overpriced milk. Ordinary Canadians are suffering because of them.
well..ok, I guess..at least ya didn't blame Harper..
Harper was a good PM.
If you were to look at the history of the Conservative party and not just the Liberals you may find that both parties make bad policy decisions.
The Liberals made many bad decisions over the past 10 years, some worse than others like the immigration policy, way too many immigrants without facility. What lead to Trudeau's sweeping win was the unpopular Harper policies/decisions as outlined below.
Both parties contribute to our current state of affairs, period!
Stephen Harper served as Prime Minister from 2006 to 2015. And during that time, he didn’t just mismanage the economy—he sold it off, ran up massive debt, and left Canadians worse off. From 2008 through to the end of his tenure, Canada ran eight straight federal deficits, racking up $158 billion in new debt—the equivalent of $4,400 for every man, woman, and child in the country.
So much for “Conservative fiscal management.”
And while they were burying us in debt, what did the Harper Conservatives do? They sold off Canada’s economic future like it was a garage sale. No nation-building. No protection for workers. Just short-term political optics disguised as economic policy.
Here’s what they gave away:
• Nexen to China: Sold to CNOOC, a Chinese state-owned energy giant. Harper handed over oil sands access to a foreign dictatorship with zero national benefit.
• Inco to Brazil (Vale): Our mining powerhouse sold to Vale, resulting in brutal strikes, job losses, and gutted union power.
• Stelco to the U.S. (U.S. Steel): Another industry sold off—U.S. Steel shuttered Canadian operations, broke commitments, and Harper’s government let them.
• Nortel to Sweden (Ericsson): A crown jewel of Canadian innovation broken apart and handed to foreign firms. We lost patents, jobs, and an entire tech future.
• Falconbridge to Switzerland (Xstrata): Turned over to Glencore—now one of the most controversial mining conglomerates in the world.
• Canadian Wheat Board to Saudi Arabia: The end of farmer-controlled grain marketing. Sold to foreign investors. Prairie farmers lost control of their own product.
• China FIPA: A 31-year deal letting Chinese corporations sue Canada in secret tribunals if our laws interfered with their profits. We couldn’t exit the agreement without a 15-year notice clause.
The context?
While other G7 nations were reinforcing their domestic economies after the 2008 financial crash, Harper’s Conservatives were gutting ours. They chased foreign capital while weakening Canada’s industrial, technological, and agricultural sovereignty. No long-term vision. No protection for workers. No strategy. Just submission to global capital.
And the damage didn’t stop at the economic level. One Harper-era policy decision—a change to the federal transfer payment formula—cost Ontario $8.1 billion over a decade. That money should’ve gone to hospitals, classrooms, and infrastructure. Instead, it vanished thanks to Harper’s political spite.
And now he’s back—but from the shadows.
Stephen Harper is Chairman of the International Democrat Union (IDU), an alliance of global right-wing parties that includes Donald Trump’s Republican Party. He’s gone from quietly shaping Canadian conservatism to cheerleading authoritarianism on the world stage. He’s endorsed Trump’s return to power—even as democracy is under siege in the U.S.
And here at home, Harper is endorsing Pierre Poilievre—his ideological heir and political apprentice. Same playbook, same dogma, same anti-worker, pro-corporate obsession.
Poilievre was right there for it all.
He voted for Harper’s budgets. He supported the sell-offs. He backed FIPA. He stood by while Harper gutted Canada’s self-determination. And now he’s doubling down—promising deregulation, privatization, and more corporate giveaways.
Worse, he’s calling Mark Carney—a man who helped stabilize the world economy through two global crises—a “grifter.”
The projection is staggering.
The only grift happening here is Pierre Poilievre pretending to be a fiscal genius while helping Harper torch the Canadian economy for a decade.
They didn’t build. They dismantled. They didn’t lead. They liquidated. They didn’t protect Canada. They sold it off.
And now, with Harper still pulling the strings and the IDU pushing far-right authoritarianism around the globe, Poilievre is here to finish what Harper started.
We can’t afford to forget it—and we sure as hell can’t afford to let them do it again.
Sources:
• “Harper approves CNOOC-Nexen deal,” CBC News, 2012.
• “Vale’s takeover of Inco: What went wrong?” Financial Post, 2015.
• “U.S. Steel Canada files for bankruptcy protection,” CBC News, 2014.
• “Ericsson buys Nortel’s wireless assets,” Reuters, 2009.
• “Glencore’s takeover and Canada’s mining sovereignty,” Toronto Star, 2013.
• “Saudi Arabia owns majority of Canadian Wheat Board,” Globe and Mail, 2015.
• “Canada-China FIPA: A raw deal for democracy,” Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2014.
• “Eight straight Harper deficits,” Fiscal Reference Tables, Budget 2015; Parliamentary Budget Officer.
• “How one Stephen Harper decision cost Ontario $8.1 billion,” TVO, 2020.
• “Stephen Harper endorses Trump and global conservative movements as IDU chair,” Guardian, 2023.
• “Pierre Poilievre gets Harper’s blessing as new Conservative frontman,” Global News, 2022.
Is it time to protest by not paying taxes, legally?
Wish I knew how!
Only the self employed can with hold taxes. Employees can't
Now You tell Me! I just retired last September from being self employed. LOL. I know many a deduction helps, of which the regular folks do not have.
I haven't paid taxes worth mentioning in the last 10 years, i make sure i spend it all on equipment and farm inputs, i time my sales after new year so i have plenty time to look for ways to avoid paying taxes.
I am 75 but retiring is last thing on my mind
Well Living in Yukon and having to compete with the local indigenous community who have a 15% advantage in bidding kinda made it hard to compete. Retired mainly because of looking after things to My standard was becoming harder and harder. Well not only My standard ,but the bosses also {wife}. It was just My son and I in a construction company. Also We only mostly bid on government contracts as I would be assured of payment.
This is a prime example of how Canada is being led by idiots.
NOTHING the liberals do is well intended..nothing.!
Everything is done to hurt Canadians and promote WEF.
Totally part of the “ plan” . Reprehensible at best !!
Back to basics. Time to hunker down. What would our grandparents do?
Back in the day people would storm the legislature and drag these crooked politicians outside and string them up.
I found rope in the shed...??
They would have stormed Parliament with torches and pitchforks...hmmmm.. gotta go check the shed..
This tariff business is a tax scheme for the lieberals big spending and skimming habits. I've said all along that the tariffs here don't hurt the US one bit. But it sure as hell hurts us. And the liberals know it. But they could care less, as the money flows into their personal bank accounts out of the taxpayers accounts. That's part of the plan to destroy the country, which is the people. The lieberals will sit in their castles while the taxpayer is broke monetarily as well as spiritually. We will have nothing and we will be happy, under the UN leadership. Welcome to the new world order.
I love your tactful "(?)" after the word "wife".
I think Trump know about the Brits and that is another reason for the Neocons to hate him. The allegiance of most of them is to Israel or Perfidious Albion and of course, to their bank accounts.
Doug Ford is a moron. He runs against Trump because he can't defend his own record of incompetence.
He's NOT a conservative at all. He's a Mark Carney Liberal cheerleader, implementing the same stupid policies.
Retaliatory tariffs only drives up the cost of goods in Canada. He has removed choice from the consumer because he doesn't have a clue on how to respond to the USA.
He should be challenging the Liberals to provide a budget that will deal with the economy killing policies implemented by Stupideau as well as demanding the recall of their criminal reforms that has turned our streets into killing fields because of no bail, not addressing the source of guns, non existent boarder security. His ENEMY is the Liberal party of Canada, not the US. We can't control what they do but we can get our house in order.