Trump's commerce secretary Howard Lutnick unloads on Canada: 'They suck'

We have wintered in the Phoenix area for 18 years. I can’t believe the number if people that have asked me how we responded to the problems down there. I always mock people who ask such smug sanctimonious questions. My doctor, a South African even warned me that many of his patients had decided not to go to Arizona (that is itself is not factual) and as I said to him, I’m not going to L.A., Chicago or NYC, I’m going to Arizona to be among our many good friends from all over North America. Having wintered in AZ for 18 years I have learned and lived the fact that Canada’s GDP per capita has shrunk from 75% of the US in 2015 to 50% in 2025. The quality of life differences are obvious and I live in the Calgary area, essentially the most prosperous area of Canada.

I voted yes for the referendum to separate from dysfunctional Canada in perpetual, irreversible decline. I will vote YES in October. Canada is dying.

Elbow up folks need to know that Trump is the best thing happening to Canada. They should know that dairy supply chain is adding an estimated $1200 annually to the average household's budget. There are about 5000 diary farmers (mostly in QC) holding the Canada hostage.

Banking mafia system, about $120–$360 annually and if if you add trading/brokerage fees, it goes easily into $1000's.

The list goes on on and on with airlines mafia, inter-provincial restrictions and other "regulations" costing Canadians $1000's every year.

Carney should have aligned Canada more closely to the US regardless who is in charge. To not do so is like a child not understanding the world. Trucking and rails are still in a freight recession, housing starts are down and inflation is eating away income. The US is easy low hanging fruit with CUSMA but TDS inspired global trips with a US insider is giving a frank viewpoint of it all. Not good politics at all for the average portfolio of citizens money. Carney needs to do a better job of managing cross border relations.

Im Canadian, a conservative person with rural roots and values. Im a borderline fascist. I believe in gun ownership, gun control and registration. I believe in tougher crime measures, im not anti immigrant or anti immigration but I think the door needs to be shut and census of sort is needed. I believe the French and the the natives should be cut off and i voted for Carney and Trudeau before him because im Canadian not cause im a Liberal

He's absolutely right, but its our Canadian leadership that sucks. We have the worst trade negotiators of the last 65 years in charge. The Americans keep imposing punishing tariffs at will and at randam, designed to hollow out our manufacturing base and we counter with a thank you, a smile, a knowing wink, a trip to Washington, a trip to Mara Largo, phone calls. We have 't responded. They smell fear, we have turtled, they keep punching, we keep smiling.

They say we don't need anything from Canada, but they do, they do, we know they do, everyone knows they do.

What is more true is that we don't need anything from them. They know it but we don't seem to know it. Autos, cell phones, laptops, cloud computing, lumber, aluminum, energy, nails, coffins, we can buy somewhere else or make it ourselves. We can take the $300B that we buy from them and buy the same from another country.

And we can still export our oil to other countries.

But they would still buy our oil, they need our oil, we could screw them every which way with buying autos elsewhere, etc and they'll still want oil.

We don't need anything - but somehow we are the ones that suck because there are no counter tariffs.