In 1992, Ross Perot warned of a giant sucking sound if the United States allowed Mexico into NAFTA. The billionaire businessman was running for president and said jobs and investment would flow south from letting Mexico join the Canada-U.S. free trade deal.
Right now, Canadians need to be worried about a giant sucking sound as jobs and investment head south to the United States.
It’s not just the tariffs, it’s the deregulation of the American economy, the unleashing of that country’s potential while we shackle and smother our own. As the Trudeau government continues with economically harmful policies like the carbon tax and emissions caps on oil and gas production, Trump has signed orders to allow America’s oil and gas sector to flourish.
He not only signed an executive order declaring a national energy emergency which will speed up the approval of energy infrastructure projects like pipelines, he signed another one allowing great exploration and drilling on federal lands and another opening up resource extraction – including oil – in Alaska. He has authorized the fast tracking of developing critical minerals projects, the expansion of timber harvesting and to prioritize the development of Alaska’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry.
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Over the last several years, we have done the opposite of all of these actions. We have made it less attractive to get involved in developing natural resource projects, put a tanker ban in effect on British Columbia’s coast, and all but banned the further development of LNG.
Now, our closest ally and trading partner is about to make it really easy to do business in their country, while we continue to make it harder. Oh, and that’s before an ongoing threat of 25% tariffs on all exports to the United States.
Where do you think investment and jobs will flow? They won’t be going north, not until we have an election and rid ourselves of the Trudeau Liberals.
Oh, and those geniuses at the Liberal Party thought that a good way to fight back against Donald Trump in a trade war was to mock one of Trump’s top advisors. On their official X account, on the platform owned by him, the Liberals were poking fun at Elon Musk to try to tarnish Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre.
When Justin Trudeau said on Tuesday morning that all options were on the table, he apparently meant having his party shoot Canada in the foot was an option, as well.
“There is always going to be a certain amount of unpredictability and rhetoric coming out from this administration,” Trudeau said, referencing the Trump administration — but he could have been talking about his own.
We need an election now to rid ourselves of these fools. That’s a sentiment shared by 77% of Canadians, according to an Ipsos poll released Tuesday morning.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said that Parliament must be recalled to deal with what amounts to a national emergency. He said that MPs must vote on funding for new necessary border measures and that MPs need to have a say in imposing retaliatory tariffs on the Americans.
“Yet, Liberals have shut Parliament in the middle of this crisis. Canada has never been so weak, and things have never been so out of control,” Poilievre said.
“Liberals are putting themselves and their leadership politics ahead of the country. (Liberal leadership candidates Chrystia) Freeland and (Mark) Carney are fighting for power rather than fighting for Canada.”
Right now, Canada needs leadership and instead, we are getting a Liberal leadership race.
We need a new government, a new direction and new policies. The only things standing in the way of that would be Justin Trudeau’s bruised ego and the ambition of Freeland and Carney to become Liberal leader and prime minister — even if only for a very brief period of time.