Thursday, May 15, 2025

Poll: 4 in 5 Canadians Believe Old US Relationship Is 'Over'

An overwhelming majority of Canadians believe the country's relationship with the US has permanently changed, as President Donald Trump's tariffs and sovereignty threats spark widespread fury in the northern nation.

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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Three Yale professors who have written extensively on authoritarianism are leaving the U.S. "We're like people on the Titanic saying our ship can't sink," Marci Shore said. "And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can't sink."

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-- The New York Times (@nytimes.com) May 14, 2025 at 3:03 PM

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More from the poll:

... Nearly 80% of respondents to a poll by Nanos Research Group for Bloomberg News agreed with the statement: "The old relationship we had with the United States, based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation, is over." ...

The survey suggests that Carney, who rode a wave of anti-Trump sentiment to win the April 28 election, will get strong support for his plans to deepen alliances in Europe and Asia and bolster domestic activity to reduce Canada's reliance on the US. Decoupling from the US is nearly impossible, however -- about three-quarters of Canada's exports head to its southern neighbor. ...

Three-quarters of Canadians now say they're less likely to purchase US-made goods, the survey showed. That's a 10 percentage-point jump from December, before US tariffs were imposed on Canadian products. That may help explain a decline in Canada's imports from the US in March, a period where inbound shipments from other countries were up. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-05-15 01:57 PM

Next stop: Capital Flight.

#2 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-15 01:57 PM

Yup, Old Yeller sure effed that one up.
Problem is, even after he's rotting on history's garbage heap ...
Nobody in their right mind will ever again trust the American electorate.

#3 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-05-15 02:22 PM

Doubling down on corrupt looney garbage anti-intellectualism has its price

#4 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-05-15 04:24 PM

oh no.....that's terrible news... EH ??

--so they should also get out of the NHL too....eh ??

--no problem...we'll still have enough comedians without

Carrey's slitz got so old he retired..
Candy's dead....one of my favs RIP
Love martin short but he's not going anywhere...$$$$$$
Aykroyds not going anywhere$$$$$
Hartman and Norm Mac...ALL TIME FAVE are dead
ryan reynolds is cook but he's not going anywhere ######
and harlan williams is a conservative which leaves him out except for NORMAL people

#5 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-05-15 04:32 PM

Carrey's slitz got so old he retired..
Candy's dead....one of my favs RIP
Love martin short but he's not going anywhere...$$$$$$
Aykroyds not going anywhere$$$$$
Hartman and Norm Mac...ALL TIME FAVE are dead
ryan reynolds is cook but he's not going anywhere ######
and harlan williams is a conservative which leaves him out except for NORMAL people

#5 | Posted by shrimptacodan

This fool thinks the only thing we got out of our alliance with canada was comedians.

Why is your cult leader isolating us from our allies and embracing fascist dictators around the world?

#6 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-05-15 04:53 PM

"This fool thinks the only thing we got out of our alliance with canada was comedians."

That's a complete disservice to Hagbard Celine!

#7 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-15 04:55 PM

#6 | POSTED BY SPEAKSOFTLY

Canada is nothing but a fly over state for the Russians.

I will be flying my little plane up to Calgary/Whistler area later this summer, should be interesting.

That's a complete disservice to Hagbard Celine!

Howard Crane wasn't Canadian.

#8 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-05-15 05:58 PM

Damn straight it is over. Canadian exports to the US account for 20% of their GDP - US exports to Canada about 1.8% of our GDP. The days of them freeloading on the US is over. Over the coming years, maybe Alberta will split off and become our 51st state. At that point, I imagine Quebec will finally break away. The remaining Canada can stay together and have ~50% of the population Chinese and Indian.

#9 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-05-15 08:13 PM

"Canadian exports to the US account for 20% of their GDP - US exports to Canada about 1.8% of our GDP. The days of them freeloading on the US is over."

^
You would have been a fun person to have around during the Arab Oil Embargo!

#10 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-15 08:43 PM

Why do we continue to see ever more TDS afflicted leftist and anti-liberals and America haters doing what they always do which is to recklessly destroy family and country and neighborhood cohesiveness.

Why are so many homely purple haired leftist women with an arm pit full of hair and beating a protest drum always at the hate forefront? What is wrong with these people? Learn to accept and be tolerant of others.

#11 | Posted by Robson at 2025-05-15 08:56 PM

"Why are so many homely purple haired leftist women with an arm pit full of hair and beating a protest drum always at the hate forefront?"

Why are you always on the couch or the toilet?

#12 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-15 08:58 PM

And I think a majority of American voters see America as being in a permanent fight with fascism, where every other election or so, a Trump will arise to champion hate and behind the scenes be all about turning the lives of the rich into the new inherited nobility in America. Great wealth sooner or later sees itself as deserving of owning the politicians and the courts...

#13 | Posted by Hughmass at 2025-05-16 07:25 AM

Yet just yesterday I saw an Ontario license plate driving around Florida in a Tesla. When are these boycotts happening again?

#14 | Posted by THEBULL at 2025-05-16 02:24 PM

#14
A car "driving around Florida"?
A car.
One.
Car.
One car.
In all of Florida.
Comprende, juevon?
Jayzus, Maria y Joe

#15 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-05-16 02:57 PM

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