🇨🇦 Carney's Wait-and-See Trade Strategy Gets Reality Check From Quebec

While Prime Minister Mark Carney plays the patient statesman and brags about unnamed countries regretting their U.S. deals, Quebec's trade emissary Louise Blais just delivered the memo from the real world: businesses are collapsing right now. South Shore Furniture shuttered after 86 years, Bestar followed days later, and Unifor admits the province's furniture sector is in jeopardy. Forestry and metal derivative goods hammered by Trump's 25 per cent tariff expansion. But sure, let's wait for leverage.

Blais warns that delaying carries its own risk because things could get worse—a concept apparently foreign to Ottawa's former Bank of England governor who still thinks this is a controlled simulation. Quebec wants constant engagement without delay. Carney wants optics and moral superiority. One approach understands that real companies with real workers don't survive on diplomatic patience.

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