I AM HAPPY TRUMP DROPPED THE CANADIAN TARIFFS, IF ONLY TEMPORARILY:
I Have No Problem With Tit-For-Tat . . . Tariff Me On Dairy & Lumber – And I’ll Tariff You Back.
I Assume this Temporary Pause will be More or Less Made Permanent on the Basis of the USMCA (US/Mexico/Canada Trade Agreement), which Trump Himself Negotiated
Unfortunately . . . This Poorly Thought-Of Trade War Has Already Cost Trillions in Dollars of Lost Investments to the Stock Market. And it has Created Bad Feelings Between Best Friends, Canada and the United States, But More Specifically With Canadians.
However – With That Written, I Read Some Of The Anti-Canadian Reader Comments On Breitbart News, which were Beneath Contempt. They Were Insulting, Ignorant, Jingoistic & Offensive to the Reputation & Demeanor of the American People who I’ve Met & Personally Call my Friends.
This Kind Of Crap In Either Direction Would Never Be Tolerated On Galganov.Com.
MAYBE TRUMP THOUGHT CANADA WOULD TAKE THIS LYING DOWN:
Even Though President Trump Temporarily Dropped The 25% Tariff Against Canada Based Upon The USMCA Trade Agreement, Ontario’s Premier (Doug Ford) is Still Proceeding with Ontario’s Tariff of 25% On Ontario Electricity Being Sold to Three North Eastern States (New York, Minnesota & Michigan) Starting March 10th . . . Until Trump Removes All Tariff Threats From Canada.
Even British Columbia, Perhaps Canada’s Most Passive Pro-American Province Doesn’t Want the Continuing Threat of Tariffs Looming at the Whim of the President . . . Tariff, No Tariff, Tariff, No Tariff – Hanging Over the Head of Canada like Damocles Sword, Has Just Introduced Legislation to Charge all US Truckers a Toll for Traveling Across British Columbia from Washington State on their Way to Alaska . . . If The Tariff Threat Is Not Dropped.
IT’S NOT AS IF BEST FRIENDS DON’T OCCASIONALLY DUKE-IT-OUT:
But More Good Relationships Die Because of Unintended Escalations Between Otherwise Good People, because the Off-Ramp Gets Farther & Further Out of Reach.
The Losses Cannot Be Recovered – But There Is No Need For More Losses & Bad Feelings.
CANADA IS ON ROUTE TO CROSS THE SOCIO/POLITICAL RUBICON:
This Coming Sunday . . . March 9, 2025 – The Liberal Party of Canada will Elect a New Leader, Probably Mark Carney . . . Who Is A Super Globalist . . . who was Canada & England’s Former Governor to Each of their Countries National Banking Institutions (Bank Of England-Bank Of Canada).
Carney’s Entire Life Has Been As An Academic & A Political Appointee . . . To My Knowledge, Carney Has Never Run-For – Nor Has he Ever Been Elected to Anything of Consequence . . . So Here He Is In Canada, About to Inherit the Prime Minister’s Office, Which Automatically Goes To The Leader Of The Party With The Most Elected Seats.
Even Though Carney will Probably Become the Prime Minister of Canada . . . Because He Has No Elected Seat In Parliament, he Can Go to Parliament & Sit in the Visitors’ Gallery – More or Less as an Observer, But He Has No Parliamentary Vote & Can’t Participate In Any Parliamentary Debates.
The Smart Money . . . Indicates that Virtually – the Moment Carney Wins the Leadership, he will Call for an Immediate National Election, Which Most Probably Will Be Held On April 22, 2025.
TRUMP PUBLICLY DEMEANED CANADIAN CONSERVATIVE LEADER POILIEVRE:
In Trump’s Words . . . Poilievre Is Not A MAGA Person & Is Disrespectful To The President.
Of Course Poilievre Is Not A MAGA Politician . . . Pierre Poilievre is a Canadian whose Entire Focus, Especially as the Leader of Canada’s Most Significant Political Party (Conservative Party Of Canada), Must Be To Make Canada Great Again . . . And Guaranteed – Trump Knows & Accepts This.
YOU CAN LOOK AT THIS WITH TWO DIFFERENT TRAINS OF THOUGHT:
1 – Trump is Being Very Unfair to Canada’s Conservative Leader.
2 – Trump is Doing all He Can to Take Away the Liberal’s Chief Talking-Point.
I Suspect Trump Really Doesn’t Like Trudeau. I am Also all but Certain that Trump Views the LEFTIST Ideology & the Globalist Strategy of a One World Government as the Greatest Threat to World Freedoms, Which Places Trump At Existential Odds With Canada’s LEFT.
The Liberals Have Already Geared-Up Their Campaign Against Poilievre, Characterizing Poilievre to be Trump’s Canadian Lackey, Who Will Cancel all of Canada’s Social & Trade Policies to Kiss American Ass.
By Trump Coming Out Of The Box To Demean Poilievre, it Gives Canada’s Conservative Party the Tool it Needs to Counter the Liberal Campaign Painting Poilievre as a Canadian Trump Flunky.
We Conservatives Pray that Poilievre will Win the Coming Election with a Strong Mandate Through a Majority Government. And then we will Further Pray that Poilievre will be Much Like Trump in Terms of Many Social & Economic Policies . . . With A Much Closer Relationship To America.
It’s Not As If Canada Doesn’t Have Its Own Deep Swamp That Needs Some Serious Draining.
YOU ARE GENERALLY ONLY AS GOOD AS YOUR TOUGHEST OPPOSITION:
In The Short Term & In The Long Run . . . President Trump and the Fabulous Staff who Surround Him, Know that you Can’t Build Yourself-Up (MAGA) by Taking Down or Unfairly Diminishing your Friends, Neighbors & Allies.
TRUMP HAS TO WIN-WIN-WIN FOR THE SAKE OF THE REST OF THE WORLD:
I Wrote In My Last Editorial, that No Leader in the Free World is a King, Nor is any Leader Ordained by a Deity (God), Which Goes Back 250-Years – as the Foundational Purpose to America’s Constitutional Republic . . . Which Also Applies No Less To Donald J Trump.
TRUMP HAS MORE THAN PROVEN HIS BONA-FIDES:
After Writing This . . . It Does Not Preclude the Fact that Trump is Not Only on the Right Track, But in my Opinion, the Only Track that Can Guarantee Some Semblance of World Stability & Global Freedom.
The World Is A Dangerous Place Becoming More Dangerous By The Day.
If President Trump Can be the Stimulus for Other Countries, but in My Case, Specifically for Canada, that would be a Huge Bonus.
Maybe, But Probably More Than Likely . . . After all is Said & Done, Canada Needs that Tariff Threat from Trump for us to Get Off our Ass & Start Behaving as a Real Country Should, And Not Just Some Jurisdiction Slow-Walking Our Way To Communist National Oblivion.
If That Is Truly The Case, As I Believe It Is – Trump Should Drop The Tariffs & Take The Win.
Best Regards . . . Howard Galganov
18 Comments
A truly superb article, Howard. Thank you. Trump is playing a long game while small thinkers and phonies busy themselves with nonsense that benefits nobody but soothes their shallow egos.
Mr.Trump is waging economic war against Canada , when he should be more focused on China. But so goes the way of a bully. He ultimately wants all factories/ production to be in the USA. What country is going to take that lying down ? Furthermore , he is alienating alot of good allies. Long term , this isn’t going to work out well, for our friends to the south.
I believe that Poiliviere and Trump are rope-a-doping the Liberals as to the MAGA label so that it cannot become an election issue to put TDS in play to hurt Poiliviere. Once elected, I’m hopeful that Pierre will guide Canada in the same way as Trump is doing to rid Canada of wokeness and bring the full spectrum of true democratic freedoms back to our once-proud nation. Time too for Canada to grow up and dump the BS of being a colony and ‘child’ of Britain and her parasitic monarchy.
I do believe you encountered contemptible comments elsewhere, which is one aspect not found on this site. Thank you, Howard and All. There is free speech here, but not hatefulness./I don’t think Trump wants to harm Canada, but do think he views Trudeau as a mental lightweight. Carney could make things worse. Poillievre would not be a Trump lapdog but would show Common Sense, imo./Trump’s show of toughness is watched by other countries, as Trump knows.
Thank you for your wisdom and grand heart. When the heart and brain are in sync, great outcomes can be created. The Galganov circle have been in very necessary discussions recently but with consideration and manners. Trump is not perfect nor are any of us and we aren’t privy to all the pieces working this situation. I believe the white hats outnumber the black ones and we will love the final outcome. Keep our focus on the best outcome and let the black hats destroy themselves. Go CA & USA.
There is no need for Canada to tariff US products imported to Canada today. The Bank of Canada pegged “fixed” the Cdn. $ to the US $ up to the ’60’s, then allowed it to float. Today the Bank of Canada could again peg the floating 70 cents “Loonie” Cdn. $ value lower to fix it to 50 cents to the US $. This would negate Trump 25% tariffs on Cdn. export products to US and boost Cdn. products sold internationally. How low can the “Loonie” go?
I’m a conservative Canadian and I’ve always admired my American neighbours and been a bit starstruck when I’ve visited the US. That will never change, tariffs or no tariffs. I’ve encountered these Canadian anti-Americans and they’re no friend of Canadian conservatives either. I do believe we are exporting far more fentanyl than we are seizing. Sam Cooper has written about this in his book; Wilful Blindness and is receiving death threats so it seems safe to say that he’s onto something.
I believe that Trump is playing chess, while his critics are merely playing checkers. The evident ,and rather obvious outbursts of “poor judgement” are likely several calculated moves in advance of the objectives that he has in mind for the betterment of the US, Canada and the world. Not only is he the master of the deal, but he is also, apparently, a skilled poker player, able to bluff his game well.
Howard, I’m Canadian and obviously not happy with Trump’s tariffs and wanting us to become the 51st State. But having said that, I think President Trump is a very brilliant and amazing person. Americans are lucky to have Trump as their leader. I watched in awe (TV) when Donald Trump invited Israeli hostages to the White House and listen to their stories first hand. God Bless You, President Trump and God Bless The United States of America.
Great article, thank you Howard. Is Canada Bankrupt the same as the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, INC.? Because some of the problems with America now is our bankruptcy is complete and now we can go back to being the Republic of the United States. Our new currency will be gold and silver backed and we have trade agreements with other countries on a 1:1 basis. Hopefully, the US and Canada will work out their problems and we can all get along.
I agree w/ Ira Miller, above. Trump is always thinking 30-50 years ahead. Why do you think he is mentioning Greenland, Gaza, the Panama Canal and other things that do not seem to make sense?
There is reference in Scripture on national leaders: NKJV Romans 13:1 reads: “Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God.” This was referring to the Jewish people being subject to Roman authority at that time. Just ‘food for thought’.
All that I will put forward is this quote from Wilbur Ross, Commerce Secretary in President Trump’s first term: “Underestimate Donald John Trump at your own Peril.”
Howard, I was rather disappointed that you feel Carney may be the new PM.Trudeau didn’t kill Canada as we knew it on his own, he had the party members and many votes he got from the voting public . Any TRUE Canadian would vote to have him and the whole party decimated. I’m not sure if PP can do it but anyone is better than what we have. I love the fact that Trump is making the USA better but not the way he is using Canada. Forever Canadian.
Thoroughly enjoyed reading your article, especially your statement on the “cabinet” Mr. Trump has appointed. My hope is that this group, Vance, and others, are taking notes and can carry on in his path with the same strength as DJT. Maybe with any hope, the American people will do the same and MAGA by keeping these great people in office. Thanks for keeping our eyes open as always. God bless.
Howard I think your wrong about no body benefiting. The USA and Canada ARE best friends and if Canada survives the intervention we will be stronger than ever together. Look at what Trump has done to the USA for patriotism. He is doing to do the same thing for Canada. No leader in my memory has instilled patriotism like Trump has. I liken what Trump has done to a friend (Canada) with alcoholism. He has elected to do an intervention to wake him (Canada) up.
I am a Jewish conservative former Canadian who has been a proud American for 30 yearns. I have a love for both The USA, Canada and the State of Israel. I voted for Trump 3 times since he first ran. He is the best friend to Israel of any President, including my idol, Ronald Reagan. I can’t believe the pace he’s keeping but he’s starting to make mistakes. Canada is like a little brother. He has to stop the crap and act like it. Negotiating with Hamas, w/o Israel’s knowledge is wrong and st
When a person becomes a President and abuses his power there is a problem. Not for himself or his billionaire friends but for the average person. (ie: the retiree who sells their home and uses the money to invest in the stock market.) When Canadians rooted for Donald Trump, we had no idea his “to do list” included a desire to destroy Canada’s economy. Creating a trade war in today’s complicated world? Americans & Canadians deserve better!
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