[ConsrvativeTreehouse] Following EU Assembly Rejection of “Associate Member” Status, Carney Wants U.S. Trade Deal Again
November 1, 2026
It is a factual datapoint that will not change. A fully vested Free Trade Agreement with the European Union does not align with an FTA with the United States. It’s a fact that doesn’t change no matter how much spin is applied. The EU has structural rules and regulations (climate, energy, net zero, carbon trading) that create distance in any trade effort with the USA.
That said, much to the chagrin of Prime Minister Mark Carney and EU head Ursula Fond-of-Lyin, last Friday the major economies within the EU, specifically Germany, rejected any possibility of an “Associate Member” status for Canada. Simultaneously, Canadian media realized a trade deal with Europe would subject Canada to carbon taxes that are larger and more economically intrusive than Trump’s tariffs.
Good conversation with President @realDonaldTrump on the future of Canada-U.S. trade.
This builds on our recent constructive discussions on the outlines of a mutually beneficial trade deal that would create jobs for our workers, boost affordability for families, and fully respect Canada’s languages, culture, and sovereignty.
Well, whaddyaknow…. This happens:
Our teams will now be working in the coming weeks to deliver that outcome.
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[Regnum] Europe is exploding due to the accumulated mistakes of the former US President Joe Biden era, and the crisis has even engulfed neutral Switzerland. This was announced on November 1 by Kirill Dmitriev, Special Representative of the President of Russia for Investment and Economic Cooperation with Foreign Countries and Head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF). Fascinating. Do go on.
This is how Dmitriev responded to a publication by blogger Mario Naufal, who noted with surprise that Switzerland, traditionally considered a model of peace and neutrality, was engulfed in unrest.
"Even Switzerland is burning, while Europe is exploding due to the accumulated errors of thinking of the Biden era," wrote the head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, H.
On November 1, left-wing radicals staged a mass riot at a Halloween celebration in Zurich. Protesters erected and set fire to barricades made of chairs, containers, road signs, and electric scooters, smashed storefronts and windows, and set cars, including Teslas, on fire.
Prior to this, a wave of protests swept through France. The largest nationwide demonstration was on October 17, with between 500,000 and 800,000 people participating. The protesters protested rising fuel prices and declining real incomes. Following the unrest, police detained 2,700 people, and 217 were taken into custody.
On October 24, more than 400,000 people took part in marches across France. On October 31, police detained 511 people during the demonstrations.
In October, mass protests also took place in Italy, Greece, Austria, Belgium, and other European countries. The reasons for the protests varied, ranging from rising prices to cuts in education funding.
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[Regnum] Polish Presidential Chancellery Chief Zbigniew Bogucki sharply criticized Prime Minister Donald Tusk, accusing him of lying and orchestrating the violent takeover of the Constitutional Court during an attempted coup. He made this statement on November 1 in an interview with Republika TV.
According to Bogutsky, Tusk's supporters, supported by police officers, seized the courthouse, which constituted "clear, flagrant lawlessness." He noted that the actions of the Constitutional Tribunal judges and law enforcement officers were not a spontaneous response to a threat.
"Tusk is a political, pathological liar who, while setting Poland on fire, setting the Constitutional Tribunal on fire in a systemic sense, pretends to be the one who wants to put out this fire," Bogutsky emphasized.
Bogutsky expressed confidence that the goal of seizing the Constitutional Tribunal was to establish control over the judges' decisions. He explained that such measures would allow Tusk's team to dictate their will to the court and avoid responsibility for their actions.
A political crisis erupted in Poland after Tusk's decision to appoint Maciej Berek, a former member of his cabinet, as a judge on the Constitutional Tribunal. President Karol Nawrocki refused to swear him in. Berek later took the oath of office in parliament, but Constitutional Court President Bohdan Święczkowski barred him from serving.
[Federalist] The only thing that should be surprising about The New York Times’ bombshell report on the Democrats’ "Decoy Dan" scheme is that the Dem-friendly newspaper a) reported on it and b) actually published it.
Republicans — particularly the campaign of Alaska Sen. Dan S. Sullivan — have for months been telling everyone — that Dan J. Sullivan was a ballot plant compliments of Rep. Mary Peltola, the Democrat opponent of the incumbent Sullivan.
The New York Times piece claims Peltola wasn’t directly involved in the effort to recruit a same-name candidate to draw votes from her main opponent, but she was "definitely aware." Her campaign, according to the story, was very much involved in dealing with a slimy Democratic Party operative who apparently played point man in the scheme and a powerful cadre of national Democrats behind it.
The players, according to The Times, included the law firm led by perhaps the slipperiest of snakes in the leftist lawfare movement — the man at the center of the Russia collusion hoax.
Marc Elias, who peddled the infamous Steele Dossier in the hoax, again stands in the shadows of another scandal, with one of his law firm’s attorneys named in The New York Times piece. That attorney and the firm could soon be under congressional investigation.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[Federalist] The only thing that should be surprising about The New York Times’ bombshell report on the Democrats’ "Decoy Dan" scheme is that the Dem-friendly newspaper a) reported on it and b) actually published it. 
