Trump heckles Trudeau and his 'democratic legitimacy'
'Who can Trump negotiate with? And do they even have the ability to make a deal?'
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Tonight, on The Ezra Levant Show, U.S. President Donald Trump gives Canadians whiplash in his pursuit to put America First.
Trump imposed 25% tariffs on Canada two days ago for not addressing its porous borders. In response, the federal government introduced a 25% levy on $30 billion worth of American products.
"Well, the tariffs were put on yesterday, and taken off again today, at least for items covered by the USCMA trade deal," said Ezra Levant. Trump then signed an executive order Thursday afternoon, reducing tariffs from 25% to 10% on Canadian potash, a key ingredient in fertilizer.
Trump signs a short-term reduction of tariffs on goods traded under the existing USMCA agreement and reduces the 25% tariff on Canadian potash to 10%.
— Rebel News (@RebelNewsOnline) March 6, 2025
The order runs until April 2. pic.twitter.com/60Pl49VmTg
However, they’re remaining on other products, like aluminum. Trump doubled down on similar tariffs for steel and aluminum imports, slated for March 12.
"He [Trump] always says it will move factories and jobs to America," said Ezra. "He certainly has been announcing a lot of factories and jobs coming to America."
Even Mark Carney obviously agrees—in his final weeks as chairman of Brookfield Asset Management, he voted to move their huge company from Toronto to New York. To make money of course—he’s not stupid.
"Of course, there's oil and gas,” Foreign Minister Melanie Joly told a Toronto business audience yesterday. “We kept that in our game, as cards that we could potentially play if this would escalate,“ she added.https://t.co/81RXIMVPm7
— Rebel News (@RebelNewsOnline) March 6, 2025
For heavy Canadian crude, however, that's a different story. Despite the 10% tariffs, they're are not expected to influence import and export trends. "That’s the whole thesis of my book—that tariffs don’t work on the oil sands," said Ezra.
Should the trade war remain unresolved, the Liberal government will expand counter-tariffs to cover another $125 billion in U.S. goods in three weeks time.
"Who can Trump negotiate with? And do they even have the ability to make a deal?" said Ezra, who pointed out that neither Trump nor Trudeau are fans of the other.
"If Trudeau is gone in a few days, and Parliament isn’t in session, what is the point for Trudeau to negotiate with him?" he continued. "Trump needs a counterpart with the moral authority and democratic legitimacy of an election behind them."
COMMENTS
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Dale Forrest commented 2025-03-07 08:51:25 -0500We are now getting what the people who voted for the Liberal NDP (Marxist & Reified Postmoderist [woke]) coalition for the past 9 years asked for from Trump. Sadly, we all have to suffer through this. These tarrifs are simple cause and effect working their way out in the world.
The Anglosphere has suffered from a degradation of its culture and values and at the same time, the people who seek to destroy it have been shuffling taxpayer money through bloated and corrupt government(s) and into NGOs and abroad rather than using it to serve the people. Reified Postmodernism (wokeism) seeks to create a nihilistic world where nothing matters other than superficialities and kow-towing to the “political correctness” of the day.
Fear mongering over climate change hype has supercharged this effect as well as the speed of information flow. Social media has also amplified this effect, particularly emotionality and overreating to each and every thing while at the same time silencing people for asking questions.
IF we get a change in government and IF the government decides to root out corruption, reduce our tax load, and undo much of the past 40 years, then we will have a future. If not, we will continue down this dark path of nihilism.
Hopefully if we get a change in government and that government is willing to “DOGE” Canadian political corruption and overspending, then Trump will stop. I think that that the end-game for he and Vance is to pressure Canada and Europe to change before it is too late. If that requires a “spank” until the people listen and wake up, then so be it. The alternative is ugly.
Canada is in desperate need of “Free Speech” reform in the US style. In fact, I think the same goes for England, Australia, New Zealand and Europe. -
Lance Humphries commented 2025-03-07 02:11:10 -0500Apparently, people are easily confused. Trump is not complicated. Trump is big softy, always was. We saw it in his last term was well. He doesn’t want to bring in tariffs, but feels countries need a really good shake. So he puts them on, and when he sees even a tiny bit of movement he backs off. When he realizes leaders are trying to trick him, he gets pissed and puts them back on. Get it? It really and truly isn’t complicated at all!!
Oh, and Canada survived off tariffs in it’s early days as well. It’s just the way it was done back then. -
Brendan Ferguson commented 2025-03-07 00:20:59 -0500Civil War, Ezra. thats when income tax was introduced. It was suppose to be temporary to pay for the war. Of course US debt has grown since then and income tax was never reversed as promised.
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Don Hrehirchek commented 2025-03-06 22:44:28 -0500Agree with Bruce A. research sovereignty. That is a much better way.
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Ruth Bard commented 2025-03-06 21:31:41 -0500i think if Alberta separates, Sask will go along too, and likely a big chunk of BC. And they’ll fall right into the arms of the US.
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Bruce Atchison commented 2025-03-06 21:09:49 -0500This trade war is Trudeau’s fault. Had he dealt with the border and military issues, things would be better between our two nations. And if he dealt with the dairy cartel, things would be a bit better too. Instead, he virtue signaled us into this current crisis. And of course the Liberals will use this Trump derangement syndrome to boost their ratings in the polls.
As for the Alberta issue, I believe we’ll NEVER get the respect owed us. As long as the Laurentian sewer way rats control Ottawa, we’ll never get a fair shake. We should do like Quebec and use their research into sovereignty to bully the federal government to give us a better deal.
