@bhaggart.bsky.social:
In the mismatch between words and actions, Mark Carney is the most cynical politician in my lifetime, and it isn’t even close.
If I were to match that cynicism, I would suggest that Canadians are about to find out why he moved heaven and earth to secure a majority government.
@beatsie1.bsky.social:
i guess Carney has given away everything the feds have control over and so now he has to plead with the provinces who actually DID have their elbows up to give up their leverage, their bargaining chips.
(except for Trump’s Smith UCP)
This is a brilliant watch. Wab Kinew has more courage, integrity, wit, smarts and humour, than all Canadian politicians combined, federal and provincial. Fuck, we need Kinew as PM, and Team Smith ‘n Carney gone gone gone. Refreshing to hear a politician speak truthfully about monster pedophile Trump.
@charlieangus104.bsky.social:
Standing up to Trump will continue to fall on the shoulders of ordinary Canadians. If PM Carney manages to get American booze back on the shelves we must hold the line.
Captain Canada (Premier Wab Kinew) says do not buy any of their stuff.
@wastelander007.bsky.social:
Hey Canadians,
Help those of us standing against the fascists. Dont buy ANYTHING American, let alone our whiskey
Thanks,
this American
@tryangregory.bsky.social:
I don’t know why this is so hard for some to understand.
If Trump bullies with tariffs and gets what he demands, he will only be encouraged to bully more.
By contrast, and as a typical bully, whenever anyone stands up to him, he backs down.
By all means, keep boycotting American booze even when the provinces put it back on the shelves at Carney’s pleading in order to appease Trump. That isn’t the issue. The issue is Trump thinks tariffs got him what he wanted from us. That will only encourage more bullying. This is not complicated.
@peipolitical.bsky.social:
[Trump:] “Farmers have been very badly hurt by Canada. They won’t be paying any tariffs more. It’s going to be a wonderful deal.”
Fact is we will never buy your worm infested beef, your contaminated eggs or your diarrhea promoting lettuce under any circumstances. Good luck with that! #cdnpoli
@oceangirl.bsky.social:
He doesn’t want to say because of the recall of Argentinian beef
Is Trump’s KKKlan grinding up and selling as ground beef, the “protected” wild horses he’s using a loophole to round up and slaughter, or is it Argentinian beef (recently recalled as Class 1 – medium to high risk) packaged as American?
@spudislander45.bsky.social:
The fact that our govt is willing to allow this and change our health and safety regulations to make an economic deal, is a concern. Protecting citizens should t come at a cost
No food from Nazi USA is safe to eat. Nazi Musk, idiot Kennedy, and greater idiot Trump destroyed food inspection. And, like Harper, Carney betrayed us the most by allowing fucking hideous American dairy into Canada. Harper started the dairy betrayal with allowing powdered fake American dairy products into Canada for cheese production. I avoid all dairy products with “Modified Dairy Product” as an ingredient – it means American fucking dairy shit has been added. But, some dairy is not accurately labelled if it has American shit in it. One almost needs a Ph D to know how to avoid American bovine growth hormones.
Carney’s now killing Canadian dairy off. Fuckers. I refuse to eat American dairy because of the nasty growth hormones forced into their dairy herds, causing horrific suffering in the cows, and causing suffering in the humans eating the shit products from them, and making boys and men grow big tits, and likely wrecking their sperm.
Unfortunately, dairy is used in many foods, and served in many meals in restaurants, without disclosing they contain American fucking growth hormone.
Won’t be long under Carney for Canadian food to be as contaminated as American, since he gives Trump every fucking thing he demands.
Carney does not work for Canada or Canadians, he works for the rich, mostly American.
@epiellie.bsky.social:
Some of y’all forget the reason we have food safety regulations is because companies used to do things like adding chalk to spoiled milk so it looked normal.
Regulations don’t exist because governments enjoy them. They exist because pure unadulterated capitalism would kill us.
@mare56.bsky.social:
If there ain’t no blue cow on the label, I don’t buy!
@kayiso64.bsky.social:
Exactly
@notthatitmatters.bsky.social:
Thank you for the information, it’s appreciated.
Why is the U.S. mad about who sells cheese in Canada? by Anam Khan, August 20, 2026, CTV News
Al Mussell, fellow-in-residence at C.D. Howe Institute, joins BNN Bloomberg to discuss the cheese import rules amid Canada-U.S. trade tensions.
Cheese has once again become a hot topic in the Canada-U.S. trade dispute.
While officials work to lower sectoral tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum, the U.S. wants Canada to change its strict rules on importing cheese, which a Canadian agricultural economist warns heavily against.
“It’s not in the Canadian interest,” explains Al Mussell, a prominent Canadian agricultural economist and policy analyst.
Last month, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order threatening a 50 per cent tariff on Canada’s dairy sector, which is now in a three day suspension period as negotiations continue.
Mussell explains that the U.S. wants more control over who can access Canadian retailers directly, so they can export some of their premium products to Canada.
“Of course, that’s not how our system works,” he says, adding that allowing it would threaten Canadian processors and complicate the domestic raw milk allocation system.
Canada currently gives dairy import quota access mainly to processors, while retailers are excluded under CUSMA. The U.S. argues that this restriction creates an unfair playing field because retailers are granted access under Canada’s trade agreement with the European Union.
The U.S. administration says “Canada is discriminating against the commerce of the United States through Canada’s tariff-rate quota allocation measures imposed on U.S. cheeses of all types.”
Canada and the U.S. have fought over this before
The dispute over who gets access to Canada’s dairy quotas is not new.
The U.S. first launched a formal dispute under CUSMA, arguing that Canada’s dairy import system shut out U.S. producers because it gave almost all its import permits to domestic dairy factories.
After a trade panel ruled that this was unfair, Canada changed the rules to let other dairy businesses, like distributors, get the permits too. However, retailers remain excluded.
When the U.S. challenged Canada again, arguing retailers should also be allowed direct access, the panel sided with Canada, saying it was in compliance with CUSMA.
Mussell says the U.S. continuing to press the issue despite that ruling is not a good sign.
“I think it goes far beyond cheese or dairy products,” he says.
“When the President can come in and make threats that contravene a decision that the dispute panel under the CUSMA agreement rendered… that’s really troubling.”
What happens if retailers get more access?
Mussell says giving grocery retailers direct access would not increase the total amount of U.S. cheese entering Canada, since the quota is already essentially filled, but it could shift sales away from Canadian manufacturers.
He says it could also complicate Canada’s supply management system because raw milk is allocated to processing plants on a regulated basis.
“That could be costly to the Canadian dairy industry,” he says.
Mussell also warns that giving grocery retailers more direct access to imports could strengthen their negotiating position with Canadian dairy suppliers.
“Your’re kind of arming them in terms of the sorts of relations that they can have with their dairy suppliers,” he says.
‘Our national food sovereignty is not up for negotiation’
In response to the tariff threat, a joint letter by the Dairy Farmers of Canada and the Dairy Processors Association of Canada last week expressed disappointment that the dairy sector was dragged into a trade dispute once again.
“Our national food sovereignty is not up for negotiation,” said David Wiens, president of DFC.
“It is also clear that Canadians believe in the importance of having control over our food supply and ensuring that Canada’s strong domestic dairy sector is not compromised.”
The trade relationship in dairy already “massively favours the U.S.” said Mathieu Frigon, president of the DPAC.
“U.S. dairy exports to Canada far exceed Canadian dairy exports to the U.S. by more than $600 million annually and have increased by more than 150% since CUSMA came into effect,” said Frigon.
What about the quality of U.S. dairy?
Mussell says even if more U.S. milk entered Canada, there is a major difference between Canadian and U.S. dairy quality standards.
“You could have milk that shipped under the U.S. Grade A that would not be saleable in any province in Canada,” he says.
Moreover, he says a significant amount of American milk doesn’t even meet its own Grade A standard.
“Is that product being exported to Canada, made from that milk? We don’t know. They don’t label. We have no way of knowing that,” says Mussell.
He says federal funding for labs that monitor the U.S. milk testing system stopped last year.
“What’s the nature of the safety and quality of product that we’re getting from the United States? I don’t know that we have an answer for that, and it’s concerning,” says Mussell.
@piperformissouri.bsky.social:
Previous to the FDA, folks would put chalk and plaster of Paris in milk to make it appear white. They could also add formaldehyde to cover the smell and taste of spoiled milk.
@alsolearning.bsky.social:
“Our national food sovereignty is not up for negotiation.… The trade relationship in dairy already massively favours the United States.“
@cricketmh.bsky.social:
We won’t buy their fucking cheese either. Just not getting it.
@alsolearning.bsky.social:
Yes, but what if there are fewer Canadian options on the shelves?
The USA wants their dairy producers to have direct access to Canadian grocery retailers — this would weaken bargaining power of Canadian dairy producers, shifting sales away from Canadian manufacturers & reducing their income.
@cricketmh.bsky.social:
I guess I’d have to stop eating cheese. Has this actually happened, or is it the latest demand?
I can’t keep up.
@alsolearning.bsky.social:
It’s not a new demand but Canada has never given into it before, because we have every right to protect our own interests.
But whiney Baby is still crying “not fair”.and Mark Carney lies more than Danielle Smith does, while bending over triple to give Trump every fucking thing he demands. By the time Carney is done with his Nazi plans, there will be no Canada left. If he gave USA us as the 51st state, Trump would never allow it to be named Canada, he’ll want it named Trumpland, and Carney will say, “Wonderful idea!”
Hey Canada, Avery labels #5260 are printed in Canada and available at stationery stores other than American-owned Staples and Grand & Toy. Hopefully this image prints well enough that you can stick the permanent, adhesive labels on grocery and liquor store items that need identification
