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Sounds like the tariff negotiators will pretend to give Trump a "win" by boasting about how he will revive the Keystone XL Pipeline -a project that Harper and Trudeau both promoted and that many Canadians had supported before anyway.
And note that the announcement will likely be made just before the US markets close for the weekend.
Trump is already heralding his new agreement with Canada as a way to bring the Keystone-XL pipeline back. Except: Canada already approved the pipeline, it's waiting on Trump approval. (Carney has been pitching KXL to Trump for the past year) www.reuters.com/business/ene...
— Justin Ling (@justinling.ca) August 18, 2026 at 8:50 PM
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Yesterday in A View from Canada substack, Hans Casteels writes a great piece titled Yo, Orange Idiot... Canada Is Not Your Vending machine. He wrote this before the news about the three-day pause, but it all still applies. Here is how it ends:
... Canada should refuse the demands, retaliate and finally use its strategic resources as leverage. The answer does not require another summit. It does not require seventeen rounds of consultations. It does not require a working group, a bilateral framework, a joint communiqué or another photograph of politicians sitting beside tiny flags pretending everybody had a productive afternoon. The answer is no. Canada is not your mineral warehouse. Canada is not your captive energy supplier. Canada is not required to purchase your fighter jets as an entrance fee to normal trade. Our provinces do not have to stock your bourbon because your president is having another episode. And our sovereignty is not one more item to be negotiated between lumber tariffs and dairy quotas.Now its Andy Burnham's turn
From a boring Canadian country that has spent far too much time being polite to the increasingly unhinged people running the place downstairs, the answer is finally short enough that even Donald Trump should be able to understand it.
No. Go fuck yourself.
Too bad England doesn't have an Elbows Up / Maîtres Chez Nous tradition!
And Poilievre too
In Routine Proceedings, journalist Dale Smith writes
The July inflation data was released yesterday, which means that Pierre Poilievre had something to say about it, and it was…mind-numbingly wrong and stupid...Interesting observation......Poilievre keeps fancying himself an economic genius because he watches crypto bros on YouTube, but he absolutely does not understand anything he’s talking about, and the tax cut/deregulate ideology he espouses got us into the mess we’re in as a society, where the young people he claims to advocate for can’t get ahead. Doubling down on those measures won’t help young people, but he refuses to change his mind, and when your only plan is to betray the audience you claim to be fighting for, well, I’m not sure what to tell you.In which Poilievre selectively reads this morning's inflation data in order to support his pre-determined but purely bullshit narrative.
— Dale Smith (@journodale.bsky.social) August 17, 2026 at 8:43 AM
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🧵 1/2 🔴 There’s a fascinating phenomenon that takes place on the African savanna. When a wildebeest is about to die, it emits a loud, resounding, penetrating shriek that can be heard from miles away, and then he succumbs. It is called the Last Call. Poilievre’s macho-bro gym videos...
— Fun Tom (@funtomvids.bsky.social) August 17, 2026 at 10:46 AM
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This too:2/2 are the political equivalent of the Last Call. 🤷🏻♂️ His tone-deaf fitness videos are the shadow that precedes political death. 😌
— Fun Tom (@funtomvids.bsky.social) August 17, 2026 at 10:46 AM
No sign of Poilievre or Smith campaigning to keep Canada together.
— John Espley 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️🌈💉🚀🔭📚 (@johnespley.bsky.social) August 18, 2026 at 8:36 PM
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2 comments:
"Too bad England doesn't have an Elbows Up / Maîtres Chez Nous tradition!"
Well, we'll see just how much elbow we really have in ... 3 days.
3 days! 3 days? We have 3 days to offer up our lunch money to the orange bloat, schoolyard bully?
Time to leave this psycho-drama behind. Anything Carny gives away at this point is likely 'lost forever' regardless of future US politics. And (as your UK example shows) concessions buy us nothing.
It says something about the mindset of right wingers that Poilievre can even pretend to believe that somehow Carney existing as head of state is what made gas prices go up. Like, sure, it points to massive ignorance when everybody and their dog knows Trump attacking Iran, prompting Iran to close the Strait of Hormuz, is the reason those prices went up.
But beyond that, there's a consistent through-line of Conservative reasoning that seems to go "Everything is about individuals, to the point where the universe instinctively responds to individuals. What individual is in power determines what will happen, independently of any actions that individual might take. If the individual has Rightthink, the universe will make everything good; if the individual does not, the universe will make everything bad." Has nobody explained to these people that The Lion King, where the rains stopped when the rightful king wasn't in charge, is a children's story?
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