Food For Thought: Mark Carney's two hot mics in 7 days – China would eat Canada alive.

"The story behind Mark Carney's whispered reassurances to Donald Trump began weeks before any microphone caught it. At the G7 leaders' lunch in Évian-les-Bains this June, a live mic recorded the prime minister assuring the American president that Canada's agreement with Beijing — which admits up to 49,000 Chinese electric vehicles a year at a 6.1 per cent tariff — amounts to less than three per cent of the Canadian market, a capped hard line. Days later, a second hot mic on Parliament Hill picked up his remark to Croatia's prime minister that MPs are 'useful for votes.' In this breakdown, we set those two moments against the record surrounding them: the January elimination of the third shift at GM's Oshawa Assembly plant, which cost roughly 500 GM jobs and as many as 1,200 across the supply chain according to Unifor, and the union's charge that appeasement is being paid for on the plant floor.

"We then examine what followed from Washington. In July, the White House invoked Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930 — a provision no president had ever used to impose tariffs — signing three proclamations that add a 50 per cent duty to nearly 20 billion dollars in Canadian goods, applying even to CUSMA-compliant products, effective August 19. With the U.S. having declined to extend the trade agreement by the July 1 deadline, we analyze the concession package Ottawa has reportedly placed on the table — retaliatory auto tariffs, alcohol access, procurement, and dairy quotas — and what this compounding pressure means for Canadian workers, household costs, and the country's economic sovereignty."

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