The old relationship is over

eejoseph, ,

April 2, 2025

The Canadian PM has sobered up the United States’ first felonious president to the tune of punishing tariffs and burning the bridge with an eye on forging new alliances and markets.

Mark Carney: The old relationship we had with the United States based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperations is over.

Who needs a friend that pays more attention to chaos agents on his shoulder than to vetted reliable briefings from proven public servants?

The border between Canada and the United States has not been under scrutiny as it is in 2025.  Why?  The US government claims that border porosity is responsible for illegal drugs pouring into the United States.  The truth is that thousands of illegal guns have been pouring into Canada for decades, and both governments seem unwilling to push away from the popularity of firearms used for legal and highly regulated purposes.

   New deal on the Ontario-Michigan crossing.
No exchange of felons.

Let us hope that felons will continue to be barred from crossing the border.

Over one year ago, the world heard PM Carney chart a new path.  Let us not forget how his political opponents were sidling up to their US partners to find deals. Today, January 22, 2026, we can say the Canada USA business relationship is certainly yesterday.  We can also be sure that felonious greatness has one hour.  The intelligence quotient of MAGA appointees to the 2025 cabinet amounts to a few academic degrees, no government or management experience, little respect for the law, and intense interest in personal gain for the rich and influential.  That combination of persons and gifts cannot last long.

Winning the electoral college is thought to be evidence of genius, but losing money in a casino and having to close it not once but twice is not evidence of business savvy.  POTUS should be an expert at something good.

Great and acclaimed business acumen never recommended anyone for top gun, and one leader had it the whole world would be copying it.  Rogues will tell one another they’re just wonderful. And even the blind will see things gigantic and powerful. One hour for the greatest of all time! Timber! Fell fell fell.