Harrison "Do we really expect, having now gone a few rounds with the President, that he's going to propose a better deal than what was on the table last time?" "We also have the economic reality of 80% of our trade being with the United States." "For all this talk about Eurovision and associate EU membership, Europe is 8% of our trade. If you include non EU European countries like the Nordic States, that booms up to 11%." "We need to keep a foot on both logs here" "So it can't just be chasing trade diversification at the expense of any relationship with the United States." And this "what is the point of going back to the table?" must be a Liberal talking point because David Cochrane keeps repeating it in the panels... @KatlynHarrison

Germany’s foreign minister sat down with Vassy Kapelos and said the quiet part out loud: “Yes, of course we do” want more Canadian LNG. Supply chains are under threat. Germany still has a huge need for gas “for the next years still.” They’re looking to Canada That’s four years after Justin Trudeau stood next to Germany’s chancellor and declared there had “never been a strong business case.” Allies asked. Liberals shrugged. The U.S., Qatar and others signed the contracts. Canada is now chasing West Coast deals that start in the early 2030s. Fawning media never pushed back at the time The market was never the problem. Justin Trudeau and his cheerleading media were

Canada quietly made beer one of the most taxed products in the G7 Since 2017 an automatic federal “escalator” has raised the excise tax every April—no new vote required. The rate is now ~20% higher. Combined taxes eat about 46% of the retail price. The federal slice alone is roughly double the U.S. rate Richard Alexander of Beer Canada’s point is simple: 90% of the beer sold here is made here. Sales have fallen in lockstep with the tax hikes. Investment and export decisions get made against that backdrop, while input costs and tariffs keep climbing A policy that raises the tax even when volumes drop and revenues stay flat is not making the industry more competitive. It’s making a Canadian product more expensive at the worst possible time But something has to fund all of Carney's new bureaucracy @BeerCanada