John Ivison I think one aspect that people are missing in the Canada-China story so far is that Trump is not the only western leader who has an ego who knows how to troll other leaders, and not the only national leader who considers himself a global leader.

Today’s news is making me think of a conversation I had with a prominent Canadian official a year ago, fuming that the U.S. was negotiating trade liberalization with China while Canada was frozen out, having poisoned its relationship with the fastest-growing economy on Earth to

Carney breaks down Chinese EV agreement.

We just got absolutely rolled in this Canada - China deal. A stark foreign policy failure with domestic economic consequences. The most basic principle in politics and geopolitics is loyalty to friends. And we weren’t just disloyal - we were hostile. So here we are.

🚨 The real story isn’t that Robert Jenrick joined Reform - it’s the scheming behind it. A nuclear defection speech, a Sunday media ambush and a bid to be Farage’s No2. But Badenoch wrecked his plan… leaving Judas to defect without the glory.👇 dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

When we push away our friends, they work with our competitors. npr.org/2026/01/16/nx-…

Canada put 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs and arrested the Huawei lady (and got two of its citizens kidnapped and a bunch of economic retaliation) for America. So far, all it’s gotten in return is economic warfare and disrespect.

Canada's trade deal with China signals it is serious about shift from US bbc.in/45cxqTB

The EV quota was based on 2023 imports, which consisted almost entirely of Tesla models made in China. Committing to at least half of new EV imports costing < $35,000 will mean Chinese-branded EVs will replace overpriced Chinese-made Teslas. Well played Mark Carney

A quadruple win for Canada: tariff relief for agricultural products; affordable, high quality vehicles for consumers; support for clean energy transition and Canada's nascent EV industry; and a rebuff to backdoor American imports.

The TSX hit another intraday high today. Carney is acting like a CEO delivering shareholder value and Canada’s stock is up. I think some of the political decisions may feel counterintuitive but from this lens they make sense.

"The automobile deal is similar to the deal that President Trump has talked about making with China, so this doesn't come out of the blue to the United States. It's a measured response." David L. Cohen, former 🇺🇸 Ambassador to 🇨🇦, on the Canada-China deal on EVs which will allow up

Mark Carney has taken a philosophical approach to his strategic partnership China, saying "we take the world as it is, not as we wish it to be," praising China's predictability relative to the US Here's a wrap on the EV tariff changes and Trump's surprising response #cdnpoli

Interesting comment on the RMB. Carney manages to say so much in so few words every time.

Posted from a digital device of whatever sort 😂🤣

We have some extraordinarily illiterate provincial leaders.

A real champ!

Buttigieg: In a country that amended its constitution so you could not purchase a beer and then realized it was a bad idea and amended it back, surely we can have an amendment clarifying that a corporation is not a person and money is not speech.

This is a vintage Gaullist move. As a Frenchman It's actually pretty depressing to see Canada do this first while Europe, and France in particular, continues its pathetic groveling before Trump. The irony of a Canadian central banker channeling de Gaulle better than any French

Mark Carney was the first central banker to suggest the global hegemonic US dollar created a ‘destabilising asymmetry’ with risks no small open economy could independently manage. Here’s my commentary on this from 2021. It was his Jackson Hole swan song speech in 2019 (linked in