Summary

Donald Trump’s return to office and his aggressive trade policies have dramatically reshaped Canadian politics.

His 25% tariffs on Canadian imports, combined with disparaging comments about Canada’s sovereignty, have sparked widespread anti-Trump sentiment.

Formerly struggling, the Liberal Party has seen a surge in support, nearly erasing a 20-point Conservative lead.

Newly appointed Prime Minister Mark Carney, a financial expert with no prior elected experience, now faces the challenge of responding to Trump’s actions. Meanwhile, Canada has retaliated with tariffs, boycotts, and diplomatic resistance, escalating tensions between the two nations.

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    12 hours ago

    Best thing to come out of the Trump presidency thusfar. Glad our Canadian neighbors are resisting the conservative takeover, even though we aren’t.

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      11 hours ago

      We’re trying, but PP’s cons still have a chance, because most of the Liberal gains have come from other smaller parties, ie: the NDP and the Greens.

      We have yet to break through the Con brainwash in any meaningful way.

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        7 hours ago

        Definitely true, but the Liberals are starting to pull from the Cons a little bit from what I’ve seen. His first move being killing the consumer carbon tax killed both of PP’s talking points (carbon tax & Trudeau), while also showing that he’s different than Trudeau. That mixed with the fact that he’s kind of the stereotypical definition of a “fiscally aware” conservative politician where his entire focus is getting the country’s financials all in order above all else; at least if we ignore dealing with the sovereignty threats.

        All that to say, I think he’ll more and more start pulling in the moderate conservatives that aren’t completely bought into the Facebook cesspit politics. PP is already very disliked to them so it wouldn’t take much

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      9 hours ago

      That’s kinda Trump’s thing.

      He lets his crazy off the chain, and occasionally, good things happen by accident.

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        8 hours ago

        It’s like drowning, but when you were first plunged into the drowning experience at least you were dying of thirst.

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          8 hours ago

          That’s probably fair, at least to a point.

          Trump is loud, crazed, and vulgar, but at the end of the day all he really is is just a louder, exceedingly public version of the things the US already does outside of the public eye.

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            8 hours ago

            It was just an excuse to weave an old Dimitri Martin joke into my day.

            To your point, exhausting as it is, I (almost) kind of appreciate how Trump’s and GOP’s blatant behavior has made me, and probably many more in the population, much more aware of events than normal…because things seemed boring and steady enough that it didn’t seem like it was worth the effort to remain well-informed. These days I care much more about civics and voting and activism…so I guess that’s a good thing? Dang, I wish I and everyone else had cared more back before things had gotten this bad. But yeah, the US has historically done some really shitty covert stuff.

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              8 hours ago

              I wish I and everyone else had cared more back before things

              TBH, watching one of the 49% partisan blocs seeming absolutely giddy that people are starving, or suffering from fascism, or whatever, because they voted Republican kind of makes me vomit in my mouth a little. I wish we could agree that maybe we want our friends and neighbors to have their basic needs met even it if makes the other team’s guy look good.

              I just really hate that, no matter who we elect, there’s always 49% of the electorate actively rooting for the country’s failure.

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                6 hours ago

                Well said. One of the reasons I really miss the era before 2016, when the president seemed to care just as much about people experiencing natural and manmade disasters in opposing states as he did in supporting states. At least that’s how I remember it with Katrina and Deepwater Horizon and California wildfires.

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                    5 hours ago

                    And now, I fear, and feel, meetings akin to this one have convened, their seeds carefully germinated and cultivated in tilled social soil, the saplings beginning to bare their first blossoms to be pollinated by ever more inciteful rhetoric, and their thin-skinned, caustically-juiced fruits of actionable vitriol ready for harvest upon the onset of the next seasonal upset.