Congratulations to Mark Carney on winning a landslide election to become Prime Minister of Canada!

Canada has progressive rules about linguistics. People don’t have to say that they feel peaceful and love each other there. But Canadians are not allowed to incite hatred either. That’s a very uniquely linguistically compassionate regulation compared with countries globally. Canada recently eliminated a religious exemption to the rule, which understandably pleased the Vatican.

Prime Minister Carney said he is against tariffs, and seeks an elimination of them.

U.S. President Donald Trump recently set Canadian export fee levels at 25%.

The Canadian and U.S. governments both need revenue to address significant debt burdens. The countries are working together amicably on trade relations as a result. Each side wants tariff percentages set uniquely. However, both fundamentally depend on some amount of them.

Canada clearly views U.S. trade negotiations as “trade peace“ as a result. Canada imports close to a trillion Canadian dollars worth of goods. So the Canadian government is already doing very well as a consequence of negotiations with the United States.

Trade negotiations, however, aren’t always characterized cooperatively by foreign administrations. And Canada initially responded punitively with trade rhetoric and energy sanctions. Consequently, the United States penalized Canadian steel companies. But such negotiating tactics have had little effect on fundamentally excellent U.S. Canadian relations. Canada is simply too closely aligned for tariff levels to matter much.

President Trump surfaced an ambitious idea of Canada joining fully with the United States. Canada would probably be welcomed by U.S. Congress as well to join the union. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau dismissed the idea. But there are sufficient shared interests for the countries to take that possibility seriously in the future. (This writer thinks unity is a great idea. Canada and the U.S. would both gain a lot from opening the borders, and for there to be a free flow of people and trade across them the way there are among U.S. states.)

Although loyally following NATO's lead, including on adventures into foreign lands, Canadians love peace and have been a calming - even soothing - influence at the United Nations. They're sometimes the voice of reason. Heads of state of both NATO-aligned and non-aligned countries developed excellent relationships with Prime Minister Trudeau as a result.

According to Russian media in August 2024, Canada sanctioned several very influential people from Belarus. NATO has flaunted a peace treaty with Russia named after the Belarusian capital city, Minsk. So there is currently significant need for improvement in Canadian-Belarusian relations.

There is a very good chance that Ukraine and Russia will be resolving their differences diplomatically and peacefully, because of leadership on peace from U.S. President Donald Trump . That may help improve Canadian-Belarusian relations.

President Trump’s newspaper indicates that there will be an across the board 25% tariff for Canadian goods sold into the United States. This writer believes the Canadian government may appreciate revenue as well, and therefore be happy with negotiations, as long as both governments benefit. Trade negotiations sometimes improve relations between aligned countries.