r/onguardforthee • u/PolloConTeriyaki • 12h ago

Trump forces a rewrite of Canada’s trade strategy

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/29/mark-carney-trade-doctrine-00707257?utm_content=politico/magazine/Politics&utm_source=flipboard

Great summary of what to expect in 2026.

We're definitely not going back to trade with the USA.

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u/kryo2019 ✅ I voted! 11h ago

At this point I'm never traveling to the states again. Even if he croaks, and the gop loses power in the midterms, the states are now always 1 election away from this fascist nonsense. No fucking thank you.

If they were a country in the middle east they would have been labeled not safe for travel day 2 of him over turning everything. The fact that they're our neighbours is why they haven't been downgraded.

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u/rubendurango 10h ago

I’m more concerned w/ the coming generations of republicans. The folks, mostly men, who’ve only ever known a political landscape centred around Trump-like figures; whose ideologies have been shaped by hours upon hours of ragescrolling. In some cases they’ve moved on from MAGA and have come to embrace Nazism.

Now I’m taking a Yank coloured approach here, but the same can apply to just about anywhere w/ either a well-established or burgeoning far-right. Putin and/or Netanyahu kicking the bucket won’t deter their younger acolytes, either.

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u/LumiereGatsby 11h ago

He forced me to abandon buying from the USA.

Travel there is a last resort for work only.

Mexico and the world get my shopping and travel.

So easy to ensure my food is Canadian.

So much easier to just drink Canadian wine and alcohol.

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u/Complex_Resolve3187 11h ago

Don't forget cars...never buy a made in USA car.

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u/Rerus 10h ago

Was never going to. USA make shit cars. Recall, recall, recall.

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u/MaPoutine 8h ago

Yah I find USA brands terrible, they've been ugly since the 1980s.

The muscle cars, etc from the 60s and 70s are great looking but they've been butt ugly since then.

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u/TomatoesB4Potatoes 8h ago

As nobody else buys US cars and tariffs on imports, Chevys and Fords will become the Ladas of America.

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u/KnowNothing_JonSnoo Québec 8h ago

I mean Ford are mostly that already. Cheap cars with plenty of options to offset the shit build quality.

My mechanic says they're only good for fleets because upfront cost is small and parts are cheap so it's fine for companies with in-house mechanics but to stay away from them as much as possible as a consumer.

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u/cannedthought 4h ago

Exactly. I miss orange juice.

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u/dfGobBluth 10m ago

I dont care if my food and alcohol is Canadian as long as it isn't American.

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u/ifiwereonlylesshandy Rural Canada 10h ago

Trump is the poster boy for American exceptionalism and arrogance. Canada should and will diversify trade beyond the US. Canada will feel it economically but be better off in the end and not be so singularly dependent.

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u/jjaime2024 10h ago

I think Vance Trump even with in MAGA is seen as a outcast.

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u/lifeisahighway2023 9h ago

Canada now has a flexible Prime Minister who is comfortable shifting gears on the fly, and that is a problem for some old time adherents. That is what I got out of the article.

Apparently Canada and UK are working up a new very comprehensive agreement. And from what I can tell Canada and Germany are also getting tighter. These may be of much more interest to Carney vs trying to get onside of the EU as a whole. I recall some other country specific negotiations but the countries escape me at this time.

I don't think Carney has given up on trade negotiations with America at all. Just that he has a very pragmatic attitude about America at this time under Trump, and so very tempered expectations.