Canada Beats TheRump as US Loses a Longtime Ally!

Canadians kicked Trump out of Canada and kicked his fat ass HARD!

Apr 30, 2025

It just went very badly for President Trump in Canada, and all of us have lost a longstanding, formerly firm ally, because Trump decided, not to merely engage the whole world in trade wars, but to also completely take over a couple of countries. Well, a country and a half let’s say.

Not only did Canada elect a liberal government, when the liberals had been tilting steeply toward a loss before Trump started playing global emperor, but the man who won as Prime Minister announced that the long-standing friendship between the US and Canada is officially over because the US intends seriously to take over Canada and all of its possessions.

Carney wins v Trump

Here is the gist of Mark Carney’s words when he became the victor of the Trump-Canada war:

We must … recognize that our world has fundamentally changed…. One of the responsibilities of government is to prepare for the worst, not hope for the best. As I've been warning for months, America wants our land, our resources, our water, our country. Never…. These are not idle threats. President Trump is trying to break us so America can own us. That will never ... That will never, ever happen, but we must also recognize the reality that our world has fundamentally changed.
Now, more than ever, it is a time for ambition. It is a time to be bold, to meet this crisis with overwhelming positive force…. Throughout our history, there have been turning points … when the world’s fortunes were in the balance. That was the case at the start of the Second World War…. And each time Canada chose to step up, to assert ourselves as a free, sovereign and ambitious nation … to lead the path of democracy and freedom; and, because we are Canadian, to do so with compassion and generosity….
We are once again at one of those hinge moments in history. Our old relationship with the United States, a relationship based on steadily increasing integration, is over. The system of, open global trade, anchored by the United States, a system that Canada has relied on since the Second World War, a system that, while not perfect, has helped deliver prosperity to our country for decades is over. These are tragedies, but it is also our new reality….
We are over … We are over the shock of the American betrayal, but we should never forget the lessons. We have to look out for ourselves; and above all, we have to take care of each other. When I sit down with president Trump, it will be to discuss the future economic and security relationship between two sovereign nations…. [with the] “full knowledge that we have many, many other options than the United States to build prosperity for all Canadians.”
We can give ourselves far more than the Americans can ever take away…. United, we have built one nation in harsh conditions, despite a sometimes hostile neighbor…. And now, in the face of this crisis, united, we are buying Canadian…. We are supporting our friends and neighbors in the cross hairs of president Trump through a crisis that we did not create.
United, we will win this trade war and build the strongest economy in the G7…. We will fight back with everything we have to get the best deal for Canada…. Above all, we will build an independent future for our country…. We will build Canada strong, Canada free, Canada forever….

As I’ve cautioned before, you can use your muscle to bully other nations, claiming you hold all the best Trump cards because of how powerful your nation is, but you cannot make them like you nor stop them from hating you for it.

We have just watched the destruction of long-established, friendly bonds between the US and Canada; and, while Canadians may still have some positive feelings about America, the longer and further US citizens go in supporting Trump as he tries to take over their nation and uses economic strength through tariffs to muscle them into submission, the more they will regard the citizens of this nation as just as much to blame as Trump.

You can already see that in Carney’s words, where he blames “Americans” and not just Trump. Americans elected him, and a majority till stand by him, no matter how outrageous and imperial he acts. So long as that support, no matter what he does, continues, Canadians will increasing see Americans as their enemy, not just Trump:

With the election of Mark Carney as Prime Minister, the Canucks delivered a roaring rebuke not only to the US leader but to the hideous version of America he represents - arrogant, unstable, and dangerously delusional. Let's be honest, this wasn't just a Canadian election. It was a referendum on Trumpism and, by extension, the States.
Canadians, America's closest and most loyal ally, have had enough. Enough of the trade wars. Enough of being branded the "51st state." Enough of being treated like a doormat for Trump's latest tantrum. What happened at the ballot box was less a Liberal Party recovery and more an international gut punch to a discredited figurehead.

Here is what needs to be seen from this election: Canadians didn’t elect a liberal government because they wanted a liberal government; they did it because the leader of that party looked most likely to successfully batter Trump and bring Canada together to do it.

What has become of true conservatives?

I never thought I would see the day when America would become so brazenly arrogant that it would actually try TO TAKE OVER CANADA and Greenland by economic force and annex them into the United States. Trump’s imperial arrogance has led him into the delusion that Canadians would love to be Americans because we are so great. Anyone who has lived long near the Canadian border knows they have met darn few Canadians who feel that way. They’re fiercely proud of being Canadians and, if anything, tend to look down on Americans a little for the very reason that we sometimes exhibit gross imperialism in their view.

Trump triggered this backlash himself. He kicked off a pointless trade war against Canada, wanting tariffs on steel, aluminium, and dairy with all the subtlety of a barroom brawl. He smeared a peaceful, democratic neighbour as weak and subordinate, then expected diplomatic loyalty in return. He misread Canada completely - mistaking kindness for submission and partnership for dependency.

They won’t ever submit, nor should they. The majority of Americans has allowed this kind of rank, imperial arrogance to rise like yeast throughout America to rise to this height of power; and today the Speaker of the House decided to help bake that risen power into place by writing a law to prevent any congressional oversight or investigation of Trump, which includes Trump’s latest efforts to sell access to the presidency to the highest bidders of his new cryptocurrency. That is the kind of conflict of interest that conservatives used to loathe. Now they defend it … in that Mike Johnson is doing his best to insulate it.

The Supreme Court has given Trump absolute immunity for all official actions, no matter what laws he breaks, and now the House seeks to insulate him from inquiry, even as he threatens a brawling takeover of our neighbors to the north and looks to be setting up his cryptocurrency for purchase as sovereign treasure by the US Treasury while diminishing the dollar as a global trade currency faster than we’ve ever seen it fall. With no accountability left to either the courts or congressional inquiry, the president is a loose cannon who can and will do whatever he wants.

Sure, Democrats abused these inquiries in extraordinary ways with fabricated claims that Trump was colluding with Russia, which they completely failed to prove. So, I understand the reason for such protection and maybe even the need to do this; but make no mistake about it: because of the Democrats partisan rancor during Trump 1.0, this president, who seems to have no internal restraint on anything he does, even to the summit of taking over other nations and threatening them with financial ruin if they don’t submit to his will, has no external restraints anymore either.

When the friend of my friends becomes the common enemy

And, so, the liberals snatched victory from the jaws of defeat in Canada because, as much as they had become unpopular due to Trudeau, Canadians found a common enemy in the leader of the United States of America and decided Carney was the man with the strength of character to stand up for Canada and fight Trump’s attempted takeover. That is the kind of backlash you get when things become existential.

Former Bank of England governor Carney, now a measured, globally respected politician, rode that backlash all the way to power. He inherited a Liberal Party floundering after Justin Trudeau's missteps, down by more than 25 points and transformed it into a platform for national defiance.

So, yes, the liberal win in Canada was a vote by the Canadian people to defy Trump. More than anything else, it was a vote to fight Trump and fight the America that put him in power, which he abuses against them.

He stood up to Trump's bullying and drew a line in the snow - Canada will not be anyone's puppet. This rejection is far bigger than one man or one election. It marks a sobering turning point in the world's relationship with the States.

That is exactly true: In response to Carney’s victory, other nations that find themselves economically embattled by Trump pledged to focus on building freer, tighter trade with Canada, too.

We may debate this next part between liberals and those who call themselves conservatives but who no longer look like anything I ever knew as “conservative” …

For decades, America was admired as the leader of the free world - a beacon of democracy, stability, and reason. Under Trump, it has become a punchline. An unstable, angry, nation-baiting circus that shouts about freedom while eroding it at home and abusing it abroad.

… but the rest of the world is no longer debating it, and we are not likely to get that former reputation back.

The world is watching, and it is moving on. Nations like Canada are no longer looking to Washington for leadership. They're building new alliances, strengthening regional partnerships, and investing in self-reliance to insulate themselves from the chaos of modern America.

That word, chaos, is everywhere now everyday, just as I was saying for well over a year that chaos would be the climate we would be moving into.

If America wants to act like a belligerent, fading empire, it will be treated like one. Trump may still swagger at his rallies and scream about greatness, but his lies stop cold at the border.
Carney's victory wasn't just a political win. It was a polite, precise, and utterly devastating rejection of everything Trump - and, increasingly, America - stands for.

America is losing longtime friends quickly, not just because of starting trade wars with the entire world at once but particularly because we have raised and given free reign to the ugliest, imperial dragon this nation has ever seen, one who literally promises hostile takeover of surrounding nations.

I never thought I would see imperialism become this blatant in America and supported by the very people who said they wanted Trump because they were sick of America’s imperial wars! It’s bizarre. Now we have the most openly imperial and outwardly hostile president in my lifetime given absolute immunity for all he does in the course of his duties. It is time to rethink that support, not insulate it and enshrine it. The Canadian election was a vote to stand against American imperialism by a nation that I never thought would actually face such a thing from us.

In terms of just our trade war with Canada,

Trump is Canada's goose who got well and truly cooked.

Americans increasingly united against Trump

It is hardly surprising, then, that another poll that came out today says that most Americans now see Trump as a “dangerous dictator”:

Nearly a fifth of Republicans even say he’s a dangerous dictator, and more than a majority of all the rest say it.

The wide-ranging poll released Tuesday, on Trump's 100th day in office, is the latest sign of him losing support for his immigration and economic policies — the two issues that largely fueled his election.

Trump Drives together those he Turns into Enemies

It’s also not surprising that Trump has driven other nations to work more tightly with each other as they seek to disengage from the hostile and imperial US:

Ursula von der Leyen, the European Union's top official, quickly praised Carney. "I look forward to working closely together, both bilaterally and within the G7," she wrote on X. "We'll defend our shared democratic values, promote multilateralism, and champion free and fair trade…."
Australia's prime minister, Anthony Albanese, added on X: "In a time of global uncertainty, I look forward to continuing to work with you to build on the enduring friendship between our nations, in the shared interests of all our citizens…."
And after a rocky few years of Canadian-Chinese relations, China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Guo Jiakun, said: "China stands ready to grow its relations with Canada on the basis of mutual respect, equality and mutual benefit."

Trump is driving other nations to ally with each other in order to combat the US in these unilaterally declared trade wars, exactly as Karoline Leavitt insisted from the White House lawn was not happening.

Here is the thing: If the trade war were really just about getting fair trade, you wouldn’t threaten to take over and subjugate entire nations; and, if you wanted to fight it to win it, you’d take on the biggest abuser in the cell block and not fight anyone else or even show any hostility toward them at all until you wrestled the big guy to the ground. You’d draw them in as allies against the worst offender. However, arrogance makes one think he can take on the whole world and batter them all into submission. Pride goes before a great fall. In this case, it’s “make America great again” pride because that greatness has meant stomping all over everyone else, including massive land grabs.

Because Trump took on the whole world at once, China is not capitulating. It’s empowered to resist as stridently as Canada just did because the rest of the world is now more interested in building better trade relations with China than with the one nation that truly and clearly does want to take over other nations. Thus, China has trade allies to help it weather US tariffs, while the US has made trade enemies of all.

Under Trump, the US has become as aggressive at global conquest as the former Soviet Union, even threatening to possibly use our military in order to absorb other nations or, at least, notably refusing to rule that out when asked in order to use its great military as a real threat to help strong-arm negotiations.

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Discussion about this post

David Haggith

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I'm going to post a comment here that someone sent me by email (with his permission) because I think it makes some good points, and a few others had emailed me essentially the same response:

"I agree that Trump's approach to Canada is beyond stupid and that we should want nothing to do with them in terms of a political union. You should also mention that Canadians are also the real losers though. Imagine allowing someone like Trudeau ruin your country for a decade only to vote in the Liberal Party again. Canada has a bleak future. It's worth acknowledging that Canada is far from united. It's an extremely polarized nation. Laurentian and Maritime Canada steal from Western Canada to fund their endless welfare state and non productive government workers. Between the fissures that are rupturing between these regions along with Quebec, I don't see Canada surviving as is in the next 25 years. I'd be interested in your thoughts." --Kyle S

I agree completely with that. However, Canadians really wanted to ditch the liberals this time because of Trudeau, if you believe the polls; so I think that just shows how MUCH they despise Trump for what he is doing to them. (As do I because it is truly "deplorable.") The above points are worth making, though. As much as they wanted to ditch the Liberals, a common enemy united them around the person they believed would be most likely to fight Trump; and, from what I could see, Carney IS most likely to fight Trump but to do so with some dignity and composure. Nevertheless, to vote for a central bankster to run your government??? Yikes, but Trump pushed them between a rock and a hard place—risk the sovereignty of their country or see it slowly whittled away by Liberalism.

I also agree that Canadians are not the mild-mannered people they are credited with. They obviously have an amazing publicity agent who has convinced the entire world to believe they are the most civil people on earth. I managed a ranch that was campground to 1,000 memberships, 993 of which were Canadian-owned because the ranch sat near the border and was marketed in Canada. I never had a worse managing experience. Talk about irascible, and that was when they weren’t even drunk! My wife used to say, "They need to just crack a Kokanee and camp!" They would argue and fight in board meetings (and with me) like a cage full of tom cats. I never got worse treatment in 30 years of managing large properties.

There were, of course, nice ones, too; but there were an awful lot who just bitched and moaned about how expensive things were when they had the lowest dues of anyplace I ever managed, and then bitched that things weren't getting done when they wouldn't approve a budget to do it; then strenuously complained when you enforced their own rules on them, rules they made, and I mean even the board members who wrote the rules got angry if they were enforced on them but just as angry if they were not enforced on their neighbors often enough!

Then they complained that their grossly underpaid employees weren't doing enough. I did a deep wage study for the board for every position among the thirty staff members, and showed that most of their employees were in the bottom percentile for wages in the whole county. "This," I explained, "is why I can only hire ex-prisoners. They are the only people desperate enough to work for what you'll pay." I convinced the board to significantly increase the pay on the basis that I never was able to hire anyone there whose resume I wouldn't normally have tossed straight in the waste basket because those were the only people applying at the advertised pay, and I didn't want to waste people's time (and my own as a manager) by interviewing people who would be angry when they found out they came out to the ranch to apply for a job that offered them less than they made back in high school.

The board agreed and changed the wages, and that is when the camp became especially outraged at their dues, but we were finally able to hire decent people. However, the dissatisfied took over the board the next year and ordered me to fire nearly all the employees and start over. I told them they would never get any of the projects done if I did that. I refused because I wasn't going to go through that education process with them and be their henchman; so, they fired me. The end result was the board argued for the next two years, could never get a budget approved and never got any of their projects done throughout those two years--projects that had been slated with funds fully raised to do them using our own employees in just another month. We were just waiting for the off-season to start when hardly anyone would be on the ranch to be incovenienced.

I was glad I refused them, didn't have to go through the level of infighting they had throughout those two years (according to old board members that I occasionally ran into); and kept my dignity intact by not firing their best employees--the two who were always extremely dedicated but were most hated because they actually enforced the rules.

What a nut house!

So, I totally get it; and don't even get me started with how they run over you with their shopping carts in the local US Costco, trying to get ahead of you like the product you're reaching for is the last bargain on the shelf, or race you to a parking space you were sitting their peaceably waiting for as someone loaded their car.

That said, my heart goes out to the kind Canadians among them--and there are plenty, in spite of my experiences--who found their best option for fighting Trump was the Liberal candidate. Man! What a predicament to be shoved into; but I would place the saving of sovereignty over partisan politics in that position, too. Trump has accomplished only one thing with his Canadian trade war--the further Liberalization of all Canada.

--David

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