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June 29, 2025

Carney’s Digital Tax Debacle: How Ottawa Triggered a Trade Fallout with Washington

Trump walked away from trade talks over Canada’s retroactive digital services tax—enacted by Mark Carney’s Liberal government despite clear warnings from experts, businesses, and industry leaders.

"This entire debacle is proof that the Liberal Party is utterly incapable of negotiating with strength. They don't understand leverage, they don't understand power, and they clearly don’t understand how to protect Canada’s economic interests. Mark Carney, Trudeau’s handpicked heir, isn’t some master tactician—he’s a globalist relic from 2008, still clinging to failed ideas and the fantasy of technocratic rule.

"Unfortunately for him—and for us—this isn’t 2008 anymore. The world has changed. Trump is back, the rules are different, and while other countries pivot, adapt, and push back, Canada’s Liberal government is stuck in the past. Rigid, arrogant, and dangerously out of touch.

https://theoppositionnewsnetwork.substack.com/p/carneys-digital-tax-debacle-how-ottawa

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April 05, 2026

This is quite a Read.!!

Wow!!!!! she’s pissed!! we all should be..
One really pissed-off CANADIAN citizen!!!
It appears that this Senator hit a sour chord with this young lady!!
Jeff Smith, a Senator from Quebec, calls senior citizens the "Greediest Generation" as he compared , Old Age Security to "a Milk Cow with over a million teats".
Here's a response in a letter from Patty Johnstone in Ontario ..
I think she is a little ticked off! She also tells it like it is!
"Hey Jeff, let's get a few things straight!!
1. As a career politician, you have been on the public dole (tit) for FIFTY YEARS.
2. I have been paying CPP & OAS for 48 YEARS (since I was 15 years old. I am now 63). Being a Canadian citizen for over 20 years & paying my taxes, I am eligible at 65 to apply for Old Age Security - OAS (paid for through my taxes).
3. My Canada Pension payments, and those of millions of other Canadians, were safely tucked away in an interest bearing account for decades until you political pukes decided to raid...

15 hours ago

Google paper ignites Bitcoin debate over freezing 4M dormant coins

https://www.perplexity.ai/page/google-paper-ignites-bitcoin-d-EBq8Y4YfRhqrQYMFtg4u1g

April 05, 2026
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