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How Canada can save Individuals and defeat America: True Carneyism has by no means been tried.<\/p>\n
Hey have a look at this: Delights to delectate.<\/p>\n
Object permanence: Brazil v AIDS drug patents; TSA v gel-bras; After the Siege (Russian); Names are exhausting; Layton’s final message; Hospital invoice secrets and techniques; “The Unraveling”; Friction can’t be decreased, solely redistributed; Free Kevin; EFF v Barney; MP3tunes; “Ghosts With Shit jobs”; Ikea as dystopian design-fiction; Torturing “younger conservatives”; Roald Dahl physique yeast ale; Prisoners die of warmth; Privateness v antitrust; The web is boring (2001); TSA v explosive water; Web Archive x 9\/11; Peter Thiel x litigation financing startup; Universities v unions.<\/p>\n
Upcoming appearances: Sydney, Melbourne, Brighton, London, South Bend.<\/p>\n
Latest appearances: The place I have been.<\/p>\n
Newest books: You retain readin’ em, I will maintain writin’ ’em.<\/p>\n
Upcoming books: Like I mentioned, I will maintain writin’ ’em.<\/p>\n
Colophon: All the remainder.<\/p>\n
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As Canada is studying (the exhausting method), the “artwork” of all of Trump’s offers could be summed up in a single phrase: “renege”:<\/p>\n
https:\/\/pluralistic.web\/2026\/07\/22\/table-flipper\/#graveyard-of-indispensable-nations<\/p>\n
In 2020, Donald Trump ripped up NAFTA, a commerce deal that conferred an enormous benefit to the USA at Canada’s expense, and changed it with CUSMA, a commerce deal that was much more advantageous to America, and even worse for Canada. In 2024, after being elected for the second time, Trump publicly railed in opposition to CUSMA utilizing the very same language he’d used to decry NAFTA, branding it “a really dangerous deal” that wanted to be shredded and renegotiated.<\/p>\n
To that finish, Trump declared sweeping tariffs on Canada’s exports, thereby elevating the prices Individuals paid for a lot of on a regular basis items, as a result of whereas Canada doesn’t ship a variety of completed merchandise to the US, it’s a key provider of components and supplies, all of which had been made immediately dearer due to the Trump tariffs. Trump went on to insist that Canada ought to annex itself to the US, changing into the “51st State.” His operatives brazenly meddled in Canadian separatist actions, backing the “Wexit” partisans who need to separate the oil-rich, growth\/bust-plagued province of Alberta from Canada.<\/p>\n
CUSMA was negotiated by Justin Trudeau’s authorities, and Trump II’s tariff warfare landed on Trudeau’s successor, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, billed as a technocratic protected pair of fingers who could possibly be relied upon for sober, efficient management.<\/p>\n
A lot to everybody’s shock, Carney \u2013 the epitome of a “Davos Man” \u2013 responded to the Trump tariffs by touring to Davos and giving a fiery speech denouncing Trump and declaring a “rupture” that left the outdated world order useless:<\/p>\n
https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/tales\/forum-institutional\/davos-2026-special-address-by-mark-carney-prime-minister-of-canada\/<\/p>\n
Carney promised that Canada would go “elbows up” in opposition to America, with retaliatory tariffs, blockades and boycotts of key US exports. Slicing off this stream of products would have the identical impact on Canadians that Trump’s tariffs had on Individuals: elevating costs. Not like their American cousins, Canadians had been way more tolerant of this enhance of their price of dwelling, as a result of, in contrast to Individuals, Canadians believed the narrative that they had been sacrificing for the nice of their nation in opposition to an existential risk from a fractious neighbour. Individuals had been far much less keen to imagine that Canada was someway dishonest the US or flooding the nation with fentanyl.<\/p>\n
“Elbows up” is essentially a warfare of symbols, by which Canadians take pleasure in mastering the minute variations between “Product of Canada,” “Made in Canada,” “Assembled in Canada,” and “Designed in Canada” to allow them to search out maximal Canadianness of their consumption decisions. There’s even a form of twisted honour in committing your self to ingesting Wayne Gretzky’s shitty rye as opposed to scrumptious American bourbon, a technique to affirm your love of nation with every astringent, metallic swallow.<\/p>\n
When the commerce warfare was confined to symbolic terrain, Carney’s elbows remained reliably elevated. However exterior the realm of symbols, Carney’s elbows wilted.<\/p>\n
Take the Digital Companies tax, a plan to cost America’s tax-evading tech giants a 3% levy to make up for the untaxed earnings they maintain by pretending to be Irish. As long as Trump’s tech giants can dodge their tax obligations, they will at all times outcompete Canada’s tech sector, who’re anticipated to pay 38% federal and provincial tax.<\/p>\n
American tech firms are carefully allied with the Trump regime: they financed his marketing campaign, conduct home and worldwide surveillance for him, present the software program to manage his ethnic cleaning, and limit entry to software program that helps Individuals evade the armed secret police he despatched into the streets to kidnap and disappear his enemies:<\/p>\n
https:\/\/pluralistic.web\/2025\/10\/06\/rogue-capitalism\/#orphaned-syrian-refugees-need-not-apply<\/p>\n
Trump repaid his tech giants by threatening Carney with nonetheless extra tariffs except he canceled the Digital Service Act, and Carney capitulated. In the meantime, Carney raced to enact a plan to fireside tens of 1000’s of civil servants and exchange them with AI chatbots operating American software program on American chips:<\/p>\n
https:\/\/www.pm.gc.ca\/en\/information\/news-releases\/2026\/06\/04\/prime-minister-carney-launches-ai-all-canadas-new-national-artificial<\/p>\n
Canada’s federal and provincial ministries are all fully depending on American cloud software program, most notably Microsoft’s Workplace 365, a package deal that Trump has common right into a geopolitical weapon, ordering Microsoft to close down international officers who thwarted his plans, denying them entry to all their information and chopping off their skill to speak with the skin world:<\/p>\n
https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/icc-trump-sanctions-karim-khan-court-a4b4c02751ab84c09718b1b95cbd5db3<\/p>\n
In different phrases, Canada is already terribly weak to American cyberwarfare. Trump’s tech firms do not must hack into Canada’s digital infrastructure to close it down: they already management it. However \u2013 extremely \u2013 Carney discovered a technique to make this case even worse, turning over key features of the digital back-end of Canada’s navy to Palantir, the tech firm most carefully aligned with Trump, whose CEO brazenly boasts that his firm was based to kill America’s political enemies:<\/p>\n