🇨🇦 Ottawa discovers leverage after surrendering it

Canada went into trade talks begging for tariff relief after spending years hollowing out its own bargaining power, then acted shocked when Washington played hardball. Janice Charette says Ottawa raised truck tariffs all week, not just Friday, as reported, while Howard Lutnick says the opposite. Fine. The real story is that Mark Carney’s crew walked into a negotiation with a dependency problem and called it strategy.

Carney claims the U.S. wanted broader tariff scope, limits on Canada’s future trade deals, and meddling in language and cultural protections. Translation: our ruling class outsourced industrial policy, chained Canada to cross-border supply lines, and now lectures about sovereignty when the bill arrives. This is what post-national management looks like: endless talk about market access, zero talk about rebuilding domestic strength. Ottawa worships globalization right up until America reminds them who holds the choke points. A country that cannot defend its industry without pleading for exemptions is not a serious country.

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