Perrin Beatty

It’s not at all surprising that Washington is pressuring Canada to make a decision on the F-35 while the CUSMA negotiations are still in play. And it’s precisely why Canada should not be rushed.

Has Canada long neglected defence? 100% true. But it just reached 2% of GDP, with more to come. Strong alliances have always been a key US advantage relative to the USSR and now China; Trump is squandering what has long been a major source of US power.

Trade Court Rules Trump’s 10% Global Tariff Is Illegal - The New York Times nytimes.com/2026/05/07/bus…

My uncle, Lieut. Henry Perrin, died at 22 in the liberation of Holland on April 7, 1945. He is buried in the Canadian War Cemetery in Holten. The Dutch are the most remarkable of nationalities because they have never forgotten. There is an enduring bond between our two countries.

@dantappin @MarkJCarney @policy_mag Hi, Dan. In a democracy like Canada, you’re entitled to express whatever opinion you’d like. However, to avoid looking foolish it’s best to actually read the piece before you offer your critique.

@PerrinBeatty @MarkJCarney @policy_mag What exactly has he accomplished? Name one? Just one. The best. Just one - the one that tops all the others.

@MarkJCarney has had a successful first year. Now the hard part starts. My thoughts in @policy_mag. policymagazine.ca/carney-year-tw…

"A starting point would be to explain that what ails Canada didn’t start with Trump." In our @policy_mag 'Carney's Canada One Year Later' series @PerrinBeatty with "Carney Year Two: Now for the Hard Part" bit.ly/42GVcVZ #cdnpoli #Carney #Trump

Hungary: Democracy and Europe win; Putin and Trump Lose telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…

Welcome home! What an incredible triumph of human imagination, engineering and courage! And just when we all needed to be reminded of humanity at its best. wapo.st/3Oz4xM9

The World's Dumbest Tariff Has Been Revealed “Trump’s 50% tariff and removal of an exemption for Canada drove producers there to send US-bound shipments to Europe instead. In just a few months, Aluminerie Alouette – North America's largest smelter – saw its European sales rise from 4% of production to 57%. Rio Tinto Plc largely stopped shipping Canadian aluminum to the US, and even Alcoa diverted around 100,000 metric tons to non-US destinations.” bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

You can expect the Ambassador Bridge gang to pull every political lever they have to try to prevent this. windsorstar.com/news/local-new…

@56peggy @PierrePoilievre I think he just lacks your naturally sunny personality, Peggy.

@PerrinBeatty @PierrePoilievre Only took 20 years. Part of the new Reformacon strategy. I'm not buying it. Adolescent, perpetually aggrieved and unlikeable. #NeverPoilievre

Excellent presentation today by @PierrePoilievre. No name-calling, meanness or shallow sloganeering. Instead, a positive, constructive vision of how Canada can be more sovereign and prosperous. You can disagree with specific proposals, but the speech was substantive and positive.

Just when you think the standard of morality has hit rock bottom, they find a way to take it to a new low.

Perrin Beatty "(Trump's) s been planning since then about what sort of a tariff regime can he put in place to replace this if and when he lost the case in the Supreme Court." "...But the second thing that we can't get away from is that certainly for my lifetime, the single most important relationship that Canada is going to have, whether in diplomacy or insecurity or in trade, is with the United States." @PerrinBeatty @CdnChamberofCom

Donald Trump’s Board of Peace is one club Canada can definitely afford not to belong to.

ICYMI: It’s good news that U.S. members of congress are speaking out against their country’s tariffs on Canada, but the trade relationship will get worse before getting better, says @PerrinBeatty. “We're going into the hashtag#CUSMA negotiations. We can expect an attempt to negotiate by intimidation,” Beatty, a former cabinet minister and former CEO of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, told Means & Ways. “We also have a potential referendum coming up in Alberta, and we're already seeing signs of Trump administration interference in domestic Canadian affairs. We can expect that to step up as well. But if we look at it over a longer time span, I believe that Canada can come out of this stronger and more sovereign and more prosperous.” Read the full story here: meansandways.ca/news-articles/… #CanUs #cdntrade #cdnpoli #cdnecon #WhereBusinessMeetsPolitics

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He’s the former Michigan governor who negotiated the Gordie Howe bridge. Here's what Donald Trump gets wrong thestar.com/opinion/contri…