{"id":77850,"date":"2026-08-25T01:55:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T06:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/25\/canadians-do-not-seek-a-trade-war-but-neither-will-we-be-bullied-by-donald-trump-jen-gerson\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T01:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T06:55:12","slug":"canadians-do-not-seek-a-trade-war-but-neither-will-we-be-bullied-by-donald-trump-jen-gerson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/25\/canadians-do-not-seek-a-trade-war-but-neither-will-we-be-bullied-by-donald-trump-jen-gerson\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadians do not seek a trade war \u2013 but neither will we be bullied by Donald Trump | Jen Gerson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fundamental rupture in the values that have united North America is not a problem that can be wished away: this is a warning to the western alliance<\/p>\n<p>The Canadians are exceedingly angry. I realise this can sometimes be difficult for foreigners to deduce, given our national struggle to express the full range of human emotion outside ice hockey riots. However, let me assure you that the prime minister Canadians saw take the stage on Saturday morning in the wake of the collapse in trade negotiations with the US was a Mark Carney practically vibrating with fury.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re at war when you get attacked. We got attacked,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/news\/canada\/carney-press-conference-trade-talks-collapse\">he said<\/a>, in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/video\/2026\/08\/22\/weve-got-the-reserves-weve-got-the-resilience-weve-got-the-plan-weve-got-the-focus-carney\/\">rare press conference<\/a> that was as candid and clear as he ever tends to be. \u201cThat\u2019s fine \u2026 We\u2019ve got the reserves, we\u2019ve got the resilience, we\u2019ve got the plan, we\u2019ve got the focus. We\u2019re gonna respond, we\u2019re going to focus on what we can control and what we\u2019re going to build.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jen Gerson is a Canadian commentator and co-founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.readtheline.ca\/\">The Line<\/a>. She lives in Calgary, Alberta<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/aug\/25\/canadians-trade-war-bullied-donald-trump-alliance-rupture\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fundamental rupture in the values that have united North America is not a problem that can be wished away: this is a warning to the western alliance The Canadians are exceedingly angry. I realise this can sometimes be difficult for foreigners to deduce, given our national struggle to express the full range of human &#8230; <a title=\"Canadians do not seek a trade war \u2013 but neither will we be bullied by Donald Trump | Jen Gerson\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/25\/canadians-do-not-seek-a-trade-war-but-neither-will-we-be-bullied-by-donald-trump-jen-gerson\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Canadians do not seek a trade war \u2013 but neither will we be bullied by Donald Trump | Jen Gerson\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}