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Phoque him and las vegas!!! Phoque the whole damned country that is the usa!!! Fix your own shyte! Canadians need not be a money mine for any american tourist site or area!!! trump and many maga a&&hol3s want to make Canada an enemy and actually want to occupy Canada. Many other americans are phoquing clueless to trump's bullshyte!!! Phoque that!!! There are only a hair above 40 million Canadians. There are a hair below 350 million americans. trump said and continues to say that he and the usa does not need anything Canadian. So phoque trump and phoque the usa!!! Let americans visit and tourist las vegas and any other american area. desantis who says continually "who needs Canadians?" and he FALSELY claimed last December that florida had record breaking visitors mocking Canada's boycott to florida!!! Like I said...fix your OWN shyte!!! Let the mayor of las vegas strike up a deal and pour marketing money INTO florida begging floridians to visit las vegas. There are a hair below 25 million a&&hol3s in florida. floridians could visit las vegas!!! And las vegans and nevadans could return the favour and visit Disney... In fact, all of america could visit there OWN phoquing country and do their own phoquing tourist vacations within their OWN phoquing dumb a$$ country!!! Canada and Canadians NEED to stay the PHOQUE away from shytty usa!!! Get killed by an ice agent? Phoque off!!! Get accosted by a border agent??? Phoque off!!! Get robbed by a desperate down and out american loser because he voted for trump and trump phoqued him? Phoque off!!! But you know what the REAL sad news is about this whole shyte???!!! https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/southern-alberta-mustangs-collision-9.7071643 Rest in Peace 3 Southern Alberta Mustang junior hockey players died in a car crash yesterday afternoon. 2 were from British Columbia and the other boy from Birmingham Alabama. ALABAMA... The kid was from Alabama playing hockey. In CANADA!!! And the reverse happens quite often. Kids from Flin Flon Manitoba, play in the States in hockey with US scholarships... Kids from Boston come to Montreal and play for McGill or Concordia and Montreal kids play for Boston College... Its quite sad that trump has made us enemies... Its even sadder that some americans have accepted it!!!

That makes South Korean cars and Chinese cars to maybe sometime in the future have manufacturing plants of cars, batteries, anything related in the automotive supply chain to be built in Canada...replacing a centuries old partnership with detroit's automobile industry. detroit's automobile industry is kowtowing and bowing to king trump the dicktator and will soon close down its manufacturing industry in Canada. This is Canada protecting its own automotive industry. And I personally say: Phoque general motors!!! Phoque ford motor company!!! Phoque chrysler corp!!! Phoque tesla!!! Phoque the united states of america!!! I say bring on the Asian car industry!!! Now...time to replace our aging american fighter jets with something more Swedish!!!

https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/autos/article/ottawa-south-korea-in-talks-to-bring-auto-manufacturing-to-canada-sources-2/ The federal government has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Republic of Korea that includes discussions to bring auto manufacturing to Canada, two sources told CTV News. The MOU, which is not binding, calls for closer industrial cooperation on the “future of mobility” –including talks on the auto sector – and was signed by Industry Minister Melanie Joly and her South Korean counterpart, Minister Jung-Kwan Kim, after they met in Ottawa on Tuesday. The talks, which are in early stages, involve the possibility of manufacturing vehicles or auto parts and batteries. Discussions stemmed from South Korea’s push to win the contract to replace Canada’s aging fleet of submarines. On Monday, both Hyundai and Hanwha officials were part of a Canada-Korea auto forum in Toronto hosted by South Korea’s chief trade envoy. At that time, several Canadian auto executives pitched Hyundai about moving some manufacturing to Canada. Flavio Volpe, the president of the Automotive Parts Manufacturer’s Association (APMA), says he made a pitch to the Korean delegation to make electric vehicles in Ontario.

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There is one thing that Im most worried about. A desperate, down on his luck, meth addict will resort to violence when his cash is low. The usa is this eventual desperate, down on his luck, meth addict. Already, the usa has threatened Canada's sovereignty a year ago before when the usa still had strong economic power. That economic power is fading away real fast. 1. trump relied on his 51st state rhetoric again and called Carney governor when he and his idiot cabinet realized the big words Carney used against the usa at Davos. Blames the China deal though as to disguise the fact that when Carney was speaking, he and his posse did not understand one spoken word. 2. Scott Bessent, born in south carolina, goes to show you HIS intelligence level regardless if he is a Yale grad, also flaps his lips in bravado...a full phoquing week past by when he realized what that speech from Carney meant. Still though...words of full of fight from Bessent to Canada though. 3. Pete Hoekstra talks tough of sending the us airforce into Canada if Canada does not follow through with the F35 purchases. 4. trump verbally attacking not only Greenland's sovereignty, but Denmark's and even Europe as a whole... 5. trump kidnaps Venezuelan's leader along with his wife stealing or trying to steal Venezuela's oil. Bet you though that trump's friends are reaping from that operation... 6. innocent americans are losing their life murdered by trump's gestapo army called ice. And all that when the usa is not suffering yet. When it comes to that, the usa is still a powerful military force, what WILL this administration do? This situation is very alarming more so than the Cuban missile crisis. And that is why news leaked out that Canada is preparing for a usa invasion and how Canada is to deal with it...

trump threatened 100% tariffs on Canadian products again as a result of this deal. Well, trump does not want a free trade deal between China and Canada. Many things wrong with that thought process...but... The EV trade deal between China and Canada is not by ANY means a free trade deal between our two countries. Its just a deal regarding a few products that China and Canada agreed to eliminate or reduce our respective tariffs on our respective products that we trade with each other. But...only focusing on the 100% tariffs that trump likes to speak of... At THIS juncture, I dont think Canadian politicians and finance ministers care all that much anymore. I mean, they care, but they arent afraid of the potential down falls of the Canadian economy as it once was threatened 8, 9, 10 months ago. Carney has had the time to renegotiate trade deals with the rest of the planet to sell our goods to our existing partners. It was easy to do as trump also threatened Canada's allies... The WORLD was under the same phoquing threat. The world just united together AWAY from the usa. Also...Carney was able to talk to countries OUTSIDE of Canada's usual trading partner's to reach NEW markets to sell our goods to... What is really frightening to the usa's future is that 1. trump has alienated usa's allies AWAY from the usa. 2. trump has also UNITED usa's enemies with usa's former allies... 3. usa's enemies remain usa's enemies. China and Russia and North Korea arent exactly usa's friends. trump , family and friends get to profit from Russia, but not americans... Licknut, or Nutlick or whatever this grifter's name is keeps on harping on the fact that Canada's 75% of exports are to the usa. 1. While true...Carney and Canada have now NEW trading partner's to sell to. It looks like a good chunk of that 75% is now going to go to other markets... CUSMA is still important though. But Mexico and Canada could now actually live without the usa. 2. And THIS IS MORE important... While true that 75% of Canada's exports are to the usa...tariffs are paid by the country that IMPOSES these tariffs. 75% of Canada products are a HUGE amount to BOTH countries... A) That 100% tariff on Canada's products will cost americans dearly... B) 75% of those products NEED to be purchased elsewhere...like potash and aluminium and wood... Where in the phoque is Licknut/Nutlick going to replace all those Canadian products? At least Canada has new markets going on... Is Licknut/Nutlick busy on the global stage trying to get new products in? All I know is trump keeps on threatening the world with tariffs... Hence why the world gave Carney a standing ovation when Carmey said that the world SHOULD just ignore the usa and let the usa just wither and die...

When the deal was announced about 49 000 Chinese entering Canada and increasing every year up to 75 000 or whatever it is in the next 5 years... no details were announced about where these Chinese EVs would be built. Hints and allegations but nothing announced in the media. I guess the would be plans have been announced now. Dougie Ford, a conservative Premier of Ontario... was not happy about it. But why is it that ALL conservative/republican and right leaning politicians in North America always get their panties in a twist and ALWAYS NEVER work with solutions that benefit ALL and ALWAYS go against the phoquing grain? But I digress... Dougie Ford was upset and publicly denounced the move. Why is that bad? 1. Canadians NEED to stand together in face of the threats that are coming from the usa. 2. Carney...is a conservative leaning leader himself, but is heading a liberal, left leaning party but I digress again...Carney is not a politician. He is a finance guy. Was THE finance guy in Steven Harper's cabinet when Steven Harper was Prime Minister, yes...CONSERVATIVE party...and was THE finance guy in the UK when he took the job there when the Canadians conservatives shat the bed again...and took the UK finance job when asked by the UK torries just when the Brits were talking about Brexit. He advised the UK CONSERVATIVE party NOT pursue Brexit...but I digress again... Carney is a smart FINANCE guy. Carney does deals between countries. He knows what is good for the country he represents...in other words...Carney would NOT phoque Canada up... and Dougie Ford should have known that instead of causing a public riff to which trump could exploit. Big oil and fox news and right wing parties from the usa and Canada already have their claws in Alberta... Some Albertans are diseased with this shyte that is going on with right wing bullshyte... 3. Like I said...hints and allegations were winked at that Chinese EVs would eventually maybe be built in Canada and the way Carney spoke BEFORE Davos, is that Canada is ready to decouple from the usa. And eventually Carney and Dougie Ford spoke and this is what Dougie had to say yesterday or was it today? 4. Carney then went to Davos and spoke with words that trump's administration could never understand, he used bigly words and what was said was that Canada and the rest of the world should and could and will decouple from the usa and that the usa will be irrelevant to which all the political leaders there applauded Carney with a standing ovation. And of course China WANTS to build their EVs here in Canada: Your link also suggest that Canadian finance leaders and trade makers TOLD the trump administration what WILL happen with China BEFORE China and Canada met to draw up this EV deal... " Canada didn’t take the U.S. by surprise, the official said. When asked about Canada detouring from matching American tariffs on Chinese EVs, Trump said Carney was doing the right thing." And of course when the deal was done...trump said publicly: “That’s what he should be doing. It’s a good thing for him to sign a trade deal. If you can get a deal with China, you should do that," the U.S. president said. And of course China WANTS to build their EVs here in Canada: Canada cut tariffs on Chinese EVs from 100 percent to 6.1. Trump threatened 100 percent tariffs in response to deal. China now wants to build EVs in Canada with local partners. Canada’s recent trade deal with China was bound to cause controversy. The agreement slashes tariffs on Chinese EVs from 100 percent down to just 6.1 percent, prompting U.S. President Donald Trump to threaten 100 percent tariffs on Canada if the deal proceeds. Still, China insists the arrangement is meant to benefit both countries and isn’t a zero-sum game.

This was more of the response I was looking for. Yes. And thank-you. If I came out as defensive and aggressive, it was because I was, but not targeted at you...personally at you. At you because of what country you live in but not at you personally as I have come to know you quite well as much as we could behind a computer screen. And yes, I never ever questioned you. I know you are a well educated individual. I could tell from the literal thousands of posts we have made to each other over the years. I like you. I respect you. Im sorry that I made you feel the need to justify yourself. But I, and I COULD speak for plenty of Canadians on my behalf, that we, not just I, are pretty phoquing mad at some of your countrymen and for your leaders for what is going on. The way I figure it, and this is where I speak only for myself, is IF americans want to phoque up their lives, the lives of their fellow countrymen, their country and everything the usa stood for, then phoque that up all by yourselves, there is NO PHOQUING NEED to drag me and ALL CANADIANS into your garbage. More than that, LEAVE OTHER nations alone as well. The way I figure it, take care of your (not personal, but a universal meaning for all americans) shyte because I, Canadians, do NOT feel the need to have to take care of YOUR shyte for YOU (not personal, but a universal meaning for all americans). We Canadians do not necessarily want to go to war for YOU JUST to defend freedoms and liberties. WE WILL go to war to defend CANADIAN freedoms and liberties and especially our sovereignty, make no mistake about that, but why drag Canadians into YOUR problems? Nobody thought that. But there were plenty of small hints though, in 2016. An huge bombshell of a hint on January 6, 2020. All of 2025 though, was just a matter of time before those hints actually came to fruition and became reality. 2026 is the year where probably all actions of authoritarianism will be put into motion. The year did start (January 3rd to be exact) with a literal bang... americans, the ones that are actually aware of what is going on and are against all of it are too passive. I understand the fact that these people want to settle this without violence. Some of these people think that elections will settle this. There is NO RULE OF LAW that is followed in an authoritarian take-over where democracy is being phased out. There is NO RULE OF LAW in the usa as we speak. The courts and/or elcetions have done shyte so far and the courts and /or elections will do shyte going forward. Violence is the ONLY way for freedoms and liberties to be restored at this juncture. Some americans absolutely want NO violence and war to happen... but violence and war is DESTINED to come to them whether they want it to happen or not. If there are no violent riots to lead to a civil war to break free form this shyte, violence will happen regardless because OPPRESSORS want to OPPRESS and will OPPRESS anybody OPPRESSORS want to OPPRESS. That could mean ANY person living in the usa. Being white is not a free pass. Because white will have other less favourable attributes to these oppressors. Whether americans will resist or not, oppressors will enact violence upon thee. Also, with talks about invasions, or even former america's allies that the usa decided to shyte on the past 13 months, tensions have arose, and the usa is the aggressor, anyway, aggressors, in THIS case IS the united states of america, will be forced to attack other countries and this means the usa will need soldiers. In other words, even if some americans do NOT want war, YOUR leader WANTS war and so WAR will be handed to you whether you like it or not...

I guess Canada will homologate these Chinese EVs with no hesitation then. I am not surprised by this, its just that buying a NEW car built for North America for North Americans from an american dealership in the usa and trying to bring it over the Canadian border to drive in Canada would land you in a confiscated car unless the car would be "Canadianized". I guess it wasnt homologized at the american dealership but these Chinese EVs will be would be the difference. What Im trying to say now is that, having a speedometer in MPH is a danger on Canadian roads regardless if KM/H is also on the speedometer albeit in smaller print rather than actually having the Chinese EVs really pass Canadian safety regulations... I understand that Chinese EVs have been approved for European roads. North American safety regs are similar... But why am I whining? I am sounding like a dumb ass republican or a conservative from Alberta or in this case the CAW!!!!

why are you surprised by this? Havent you been listening to trump's threats towards Canada? And no...those words that he used a YEAR ago were not jokes... And for CONTINUALLY threatening Canada's sovereignty and economic well being for 12 months STRAIGHT... Common man!!!

Chinese EVs now entering the Canadian market will heat things up with all manufacturers. Competition will be fierce. And the Chinese EV makers now have both the north and south sandwiching and squeezing the detroit makers. And we know this because of how the Chinese EV makers have made the competition in Europe fierce. While BMW is currently doing good with their EV sales in Europe, they cant slip up and lose any battles. VAG is also holding on quite well with EVs, but they too cant slip up. Mercedes and Stellantis are not doing well EV wise. The way things are playing out in the usa though, if gm, ford and chrysler continue to allow the trump administration to d!c-k around and sink EV policies to non-existence and they in turn allow themselves to delay EV development and to delay to offer compelling EVs all three detroit area manufacturers will sink to oblivion. And that includes gm regardless if the 2nd generation of ultium would be of equal technology to the Chinese. Ultium 2.0 will not be of equal relevance... And PRICE is a HUGE component when talking about technology development and relevance... South Americans where Chinese EVs are sold have already forgotten about american car makers and the same will happen to the Canadian market. Especially the way trump continues to antagonize Canada... Canadians are already hating on americans and boycotting american products. European car makers with their EVs in the usa market will have to adjust. But European car makers sell expensive EVs and americans are going down a path to where they will be waiting in line for bread like the way Russians were doing up until the 1980s and ronald reagan was poking fun at them when Gorbachev was dictator.

True. But isnt there an entity that needs to actually and officially put a stamp of approval on them? Doesnt that also take time? If safety of the people takes precedence over money... Ha ha ha!!! Im sure, like you said, nothing major will be of issue and minimal changes, if any required.

Fair enough. And very true. But the "experts" here in Canada, the business experts and automotive analysts are saying as soon as the news dropped about the trade deals and dropping of tariffs, that Chinese EVs will be here sooner than we think. They do not give a timeline however, but they all agree that these EVs will hit Canadian shores ready for sale in 2026 sometime. Now, I agree with you, dealerships are not only necessary for the sales aspects, but for after-sales support and assistance and repair requirements. Also...and I just thought of this, crash and safety requirements are quite different for the Asian and European markets than it is for our North American market. What Chinese EVs are really North American market ready??? As I dont think the majority, if not all of the native Chinese EVs have been North American approved...

It is quite sad. But it is a story long in the making. Decades in the making. One reason would be of the downsizing of vehicles back in the 1970s. Another would be CAFE and the omission to include trucks in the strict CAFE emissions requirements as they did with cars. Yada yada yada... I am quite accepting of this reality. I have no (individual) power to reverse the SUV/CUV trend as the choice of transportation. The masses have spoken and continue to speak that they want this brand of vehicle as their daily driver needs. Therefore, I have but no choice and to accept this reality. But in the Canadian market, there is a small but happy moment for sedan options. In the EV sector. I do not know what Chinese EVs we will be getting shortly, and if Chinese marketers are smart, they would be offering MORE of their SUVs/CUVs than they will be their sedans, because Canadians too, are on this SUV/CUV train, but they would also be smart if they would offer their best (affordable) sedans to compete directly with Tesla sedans (models 3 and S) to see what Canadians really want to buy. Because the Model 3, in Canada, is a good seller bucking SUV/CUV sales trends. Therefore, in my market, the Canadian market, thanks to donald, I, Canadians, will probably be getting slightly more sedan options than what we have now in the very near future. Like sometime in 2026 before the year is up.

Nothing negative to say about it, other than its a SUV...and nothing negative about the body creases that go from the front to the back, but they do remind me of the creases on the Graf Zeppelin. And I kinda like them on the BMW. But I really really hate the fact that it is a SUV. *sigh* About the front and BMW's new design language. I like it. @Drew Dowdell said that its kinda new round of retro 2.0 styling. And I would agree. At least the 'twin kidneys' are toned down a lot from the monstrosities they were putting out. The one complaint I got is I would prefer if the headlights and 'grille' were more centered on the face. More 'down' on the front eliminating all that nothingness that is 3/4s of the front and the top 1/4 are the lights and twin kidneys.

https://insideevs.com/news/784657/china-ev-tariff-canada/ https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/what-is-in-canada-s-trade-agreement-with-china-9.7049082 “We’re building a new part of our car industry, building cars of the future in partnership, bringing affordable autos for Canadians at a time when affordability is top of mind, and doing it at a scale that allows for a smooth transition in the sector” Details: Canada will tariff Chinese EVs at 6.1% instead of what it was which was 100% The first year, there is a limit of 49 000 cars to enter Canada but each year the limit will increase to 70 000 cars by the 5th year. Prime Minister Carney said this is a deal that: "we're building a NEW part of our car industry building cars of the future in PARTNERSHIP, bringing affordable autos for Canadians at a time when affordability is top of mind, and doing at a scale that allows for a smooth transition in the sector" Ontario leader Dougie Ford has negatives to say about it...forgetting though that GM usa, FoMoCo usa and Chryco usa voted for tariffs and Canadian built cars. trump also said that he does nor want, americans do not need Canadian cars... So he is kvetching for nothin' about on Carney's side and bitchin' at the wrong tree... He should realize that certain shytty americans do not want Canadian anything, let alone automobiles. PHOQUE the usa!!! PHOQUE americans!!! The bolded CAPITILIZED words "NEW" and "PARTNERSHIP" quoted by Carney but assumed by me may mean that and Im speculating here, reading into something that may NOT exist, that if and when Chinese EVs are a success sales wise in Canada and the plants that produce GM, Ford and Chrysler cars in Ontario do close down for a myriad of reasons, MAYBE Chinese factories manufacturing these EV will be on Canadian soil... "we're building a NEW part of our car industry building cars of the future in PARTNERSHIP...doing it at a scale that allows for a smooth transition" Takes a lot of reading between the lines... But maybe there is nothing there also... Anyway you slice it though, not good for the us auto industry in the long term. Especially when GM and Ford have no choice but to putz around in the us/Canada market. And since neither of them have any sort of global presence of any significance... Well...PHOQUE THEM!!!

interesting conversations... Too bad I missed out on it. 20 years ago....was a loooong time ago. Ill add my 2 cents worth regardless...or should I say irregardless. I am not against dialects or pronunciations. That is how the region speaks. Like a Boston accent. I wouldnt necessarily enjoy listening to it on a daily basis...as an outsider...but if I was a local yokel, Id speak that way for sure. And as an outsider of the Boston Masshole region, I actually have a chuckle listening to it. The southern drawl just drives me nuts. HATE IT!!! I once thought it was charming but now I just CANT PHOQUING STAND IT!!! I think the stupid phoques that keep on voting AGAINST their own interests have made me DESPISE the region and ANYTHING that comes out of it. But...this is how they speak and its unique to them and obviously its acceptable as a language communication thing as this is how these idiots speak. Their dialect and pronunciation of words has NOTHING to do with their uneducated asses. Their racism and hatred however... Now...what I do NOT like as words of communication. There are plenty... I can ONLY think of one at this point in time though. I HATE IT when people say an age of another person, or about themselves, and say it as: 75 years young. 58 years young. We ALL grow old. The lucky ones that actually live that long to be called old. Being old is not a negative. Therefore wear your age as a badge of honour for actually SURVIVING this crazy world. 75 years OLD goddamit!!! 58 years OLD Jesus effin' Christ!!! Now...about swearin' and cussin' I dont like that either. But in today's world and for the past 20-30 years actually, swearin' and cussin' are the least problematic societal issues we have to deal with. And its so common nowadays that swear words are just part of everyday vernacular. Means nothin' anymore to 'swear'. But one looks like an uncouth idiot when one uses 'swear' words. I have been swearin' a lot in these here forums... Mainly AGAINST the usa. PHOQUE TRUMP and PHOQUE the usa. This is just me CURSING the existence of this useless nation that it has become. Nothing more and nothing less...

East Coast. West Coast. Northern Border. Yeah. All of it!!! Canada!!! East Coast: New York State + Vermont + Maine + New Hampshire + Massachusetts = Canada. These were all French colonies at first anyway, minus Massachusetts and the lower part of New York. West Coast: Washington State + Oregon + California = Canada Because why not???!!! These states do not want to be part of the shythole country that has become the usa so...they might as well join Canada. Northern Border States: Minnesota = Canada Michigan shall be Canadian BECAUSE Detroit was founded by a French guy by the name of Cadillac. Reparations are owed... Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Arkansas were also founded by the French but they have become such shytehole areas, mainly the reason that america has become such a shytehole country. america could keep that shyte all to themselves. Canada will happily have California, Washington State, Oregon and Minnesota instead. 4 states versus 4 states. Anyway, those Canadian states I proposed to become Canadian, the people living in these states are normal people and they think alike as Canadians do. Makes perfect sense that these states become Canadian. Oh...we could give you Alberta and Saskatchewan in exchange for New Jersey, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Illinois, Delaware and Maryland. New York and New Jersey go hand in hand which also includes Rhode Island. Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and Massachusetts go hand in hand with Connecticut. Delaware and Maryland go hand in hand and since District of Columbia will be under Canadian rule when Canada burns down the White House again... The new usa could have a new capital city somewheres in the shytehole areas of the usa.

Where you shake, rattle and roll? You dirty dog you!!!