Newly installed Liberal Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Thursday that his country’s “old relationship” with the United States “is over” as President Donald Trump’s tariffs threaten to damage the Canadian economy. During a press conference, Carney, who won his position atop the Liberal Party earlier this month after former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stepped down, said that he plans to “fight the U.S. tariffs with retaliatory trade actions of our own that will have maximum impact in the United States and minimum impacts here in Canada.” The new prime minister added, “The old relationship we had with the United States, based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperations, is over.” “What exactly the United States does next is unclear, but what is clear is that we Canadians have agency. We have power,” Carney continued. “We are masters in our own home. We can control our destiny. We can give ourselves much more than any foreign government, including the United States, can ever take away.” While Americans’ wallets could be affected by President Trump’s trade war with Canada, the tariffs will likely hurt Canadian workers and consumers much more since Canada relies heavily on exporting to the United States, sending 75% of its exports to America, according to Reuters. Carney admitted that Canada “will need to dramatically reduce our reliance on the United States” as the tariffs go into effect. “We will need to pivot our trade relationships elsewhere,” the prime minister said. “And we will need to do things previously thought impossible at speeds we haven’t seen in generations.” Carney said he received a call from the White House on Wednesday to set up discussions with President Trump. He added, “It is possible that with comprehensive negotiations, we will be able to restore some trust, but there will be no turning back.” Trump, who has repeatedly suggested making Canada the 51st state, threatened on Thursday that Canada and the European Union would be hit with tariffs “far larger than currently planned” if they seek “to do economic harm to the USA.” Trump’s relationship with Canada’s former prime minister, Trudeau, was often tense, and after his election victory in November, the president began referring to Trudeau as “governor.” It appears that Canada’s change of prime minister will not alter its approach to negotiations with the United States on tariffs. Carney will be tasked with developing a relationship with Trump in the coming weeks as he also runs to hold onto power in the upcoming Canadian federal election, which will take place on April 28. Conservatives, led by Pierre Poilievre, are challenging Carney and his Liberal Party.

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The federal government spent more than $174 million promoting gender ideology in the past three years, according to a new report. In one example of many, the State Department issued a taxpayer-funded grant to premiere “The Vagina Monologues” in India. Two lawmakers say the waste must end.   Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, and Sen. Jim Banks, R-Ind., called on their colleagues Thursday to use the appropriations and budget reconciliation processes to cut support for gender ideology and to work toward banning transgender surgery for minors. A recent report from the national pro-family American Principles Project uncovered the details of hundreds of grants and contracts approved by the federal government to further gender ideology from 2021-2024.   “DOGE isn’t enough,” Banks said at an event hosted by the American Principles Project. “What Elon and DOGE and the Trump administration is doing in zeroing out these programs is only temporary if Congress doesn’t do its job to make it permanent. That’s our big takeaway.”  Banks was referring to the Department of Government Efficiency run by Elon Musk that is working to root out waste and abuse in government spending as well as to President Donald Trump’s executive order banning all programs within the federal government that promote gender ideology. A presidential executive order can be reversed by a subsequent president, which is why Banks is encouraging Congress to pass a law to make it permanent.  The report has given Congress the ammunition to do just that, he said.   Grants and contracts listed in the report include more than $3 million from the Department of Health and Human Services for the Children’s Hospital Corporation to transform “health for gender-diverse youth using interventions to drive equity;” a $600,000 grant from the Department of Agriculture for Southern University A&M to study menstrual cycles in “transgender men and people with masculine gender identities, intersex, and nonbinary persons;” and more than $24,000 from the Department of State to premiere “The Vagina Monologues” in the Gujarati language in Mumbai and Ahmedabad, India.   Banks called the report “groundbreaking,” noting that some of the exposed funding was approved before President Joe Biden took office, during the first Trump administration.  As chairman of the Republican Study Committee in 2021, Banks told Republicans to lean into the culture war. Under the second Trump administration, he said Republicans now have the leadership needed to fight the culture war as DOGE also identifies wasteful spending on it.  Chloe Cole is a young woman who surgically “transitioned” into a boy in her early teens and then “detransitioned” a few years later. She is a fierce critic of gender ideology and said that Trump’s recent executive orders targeting gender ideology are excellent and speak to a cultural change in our nation, but the fight against woke ideology is not over.   “While it’s wonderful that we started throwing the punches so early on in the administration … these need to be codified into law, and these laws need to be upheld in court federally,” Cole, who was at the event, said. “I think that we need to ban the transitioning of minors.”   Gill told The Daily Signal he supports a federal ban on gender transition for minors. Meanwhile, he said Congress needs to shift with the broader culture and Republicans need to beat Democrats at the ballot box if the Democratic Party continues to dig in on gender ideology.  “I think we need to continue putting pedal to the floor and making these positions so untenable that even Democrats in moderate seats can’t vote against us,” Gill told The Daily Signal. “We’re not there yet, but the more that we can highlight stories of high school girls getting beat up on a basketball court by transgender guys … the more we can get the [Sen.] John Fettermans and some of the Democrats who are maybe a little bit more amendable to us to get on board.”  Gill said Congress should support the administration’s efforts to root out wasteful spending through an appropriations process that strips taxpayer funding from organizations promoting gender ideology.   “Fundamentally, we have to rightsize our appropriations budget to take this stuff out, to make these cuts permanent,” Gill said. “That’s going to take far more political will, I think, than it should. But it’s really a matter of putting the pedal to the floor so we can get these recission bills [bills that rescind funding that was previously appropriated] done as quickly as possible.”  The post Lawmakers Call for Defunding as Report Reveals Millions of Taxpayer Dollars Spent on Gender Ideology appeared first on The Daily Signal.

The Trump administration made an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court hear its case for using the Alien Enemies Act to deport members of a Venezuelan gang, CNN reported.  The alleged members were sent to an El Salvador prison.  The administration is asking the high court to reverse an order from U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, of the District of Columbia,  blocking further deportations under the act.  “This case presents fundamental questions about who decides how to conduct sensitive national-security-related operations in this country—the President, through Article II, or the Judiciary, through TROs. The Constitution supplies a clear answer: the President,” Solicitor General Sarah Harris wrote, according to NBC News. “The republic cannot afford a different choice.” A federal appeals court, in a 2-1 ruling, denied the Trump administration’s request to lift a temporary restraining order by Boasberg. This is a breaking news article and it will be updated. The post Trump Appeals Deportation Case to Supreme Court appeared first on The Daily Signal.