The U.S. is working on a deal with Belarus to replace the potash it receives from Canada for “substantially less,” U.S. President Donald Trump said.
“The United States is working on a massive Deal with respect to the purchase of Potash from Belarus,” Trump said on his social media platform Truth Social.
“The pricing would be for substantially less than we are currently paying to Canada, very good news for our Farmers and Ranchers. Thank you for your attention to this matter!” Trump added.
European officials have called Belarus an “accomplice” to Russia’s war in Ukraine and earlier this year, Belarus launched joint drills with Russia to practice the use of nuclear weapons that Moscow has stationed in the territory of its neighbor and ally.
Potash consists of minerals and chemicals that contain potassium and is a vital input used for manufacturing fertilizers. It is used to support plant growth, increase crop yield and disease resistance, and enhance water preservation.
Canada is the leading exporter of potash in the world.
The U.S. imports 79 per cent of its potash from Canada, according to the U.S Geological Survey. Russia, accounting for 11 per cent of U.S. potash imports, is a distant second while Belarus is in fourth place with three per cent.
“No substitutes exist” for potash in the agriculture industry, the USGS says, making it a critical implement for food security.
Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe said more than 40 countries, including Canada and allies, currently sanction Belarus for supporting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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“Buying blood potash from Belarus is supporting Russian aggression. It’s wrong and it doesn’t make sense. All of that potash has to be shipped first through Russia, then across the ocean, then across the US to mid-western farmers,” said Moe.
“Does anyone believe Belarusian blood potash shipped through Russia is going to be more affordable, more sustainable or more ethical than potash shipped from Saskatchewan – right here in North America?”
Fertilizer Canada on Monday said in a statement that Canada has been a reliable supplier to North American farmers for decades.
“Supported by geography and a highly integrated supply chain, Canadian potash helps ensure growers have access to the nutrients they need, when and where they need them,” the industry group said.
“Reliability, proximity, transportation infrastructure, product availability and the ability to deliver during critical application windows all matter. A strong and integrated North American fertilizer supply chain helps support farm productivity, affordability and food security on both sides of the border.”
Pam Schwann, president of the Saskatchewan Mining Association, said there will likely be challenges for Belarus to ramp up production to meet increased demand.
“Right now, most of the Belarusian supply goes to China. I’m not sure if they have any extra latent supply that they’re able to ramp up production with. They have a very complicated supply chain,” Schwann said in an interview with Global News.
“They are landlocked, much like Saskatchewan, but they would require to load onto ships and get their product landed into the United States and then they would require infrastructure built out to do what we already have in Canada in terms of an integrated supply chain. And so, I’m not sure what the capacity Belarus has for additional potash.”
Schwann said Canadian producers have deep and longstanding relationships with U.S. farmers.
“Obviously the U.S. market is very important to our Saskatchewan mining companies. Moving forward, it does speak to the importance of diversification of trade and the building out of trade-enabling infrastructure and diversifying markets. And so there’s also some timely news, I think, on that front from the federal government that’s coming later this week.”
Trade talks collapsed between Canada and the United States last month after Ottawa walked away from the negotiating table in response to last-minute terms that Prime Minister Mark Carney says the U.S. demanded, including restrictions on Canada entering into new trade deals with other countries.
Since then, Trump has escalated his economic attacks against Canada, imposing multiple rounds of tariffs as well as import restrictions.
Belarus is “authoritarian state,” where “elections are openly rigged and civil liberties are severely restricted,” according to Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit group Freedom House, which releases annual reports on the state of democracy around the world.
“Security forces have violently assaulted and arbitrarily detained journalists and ordinary citizens who challenge Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s regime,” the group says about Belarus.
Belarus scored seven out of 100 on the think tank’s freedom index. Canada scored 97.
With files from Global News’ Vanessa Tiberio.
@disgusting fagot loser – you need to fall off a cliff.
“KKK
September 22, 2026 at 10:56 am
Poor Trumpty Dumpty fell off the wall AGAIN!! Didn’t get his way again with his communist buddies!! Maybe Putin can twist some necks for him?? Naaa!!”
Liberals need to go. And so do their gay old boomer brownshirts.
Keep Going. Elbows Up.
@Ben. Why dont you pick any index that actually means something like GDP? Nobody cares about your leftist clown index
@KKK. Putin’s not a communist you moron. Its not the 1980s. The only commies these days are leftists in the US and Canada
@ Anonymous September 22, 2026 at 10:44 am. Clownadians busy bootlicking China while pretending to care about democracy
@Born & raised Albertan. Have you Clownadians ever asked why things made in China are cheaper even though its on a different continent?
Welcome Belarusian potash!
Some quick Google-Fu tells me that the USA imports 5-6 million tons of potash every year, mostly from Canada. Belarus produces 6-7 million tons/year, which is barely enough to cover the USA, if they refuse it from Canada. Canada produces around 15-25 million tons/year.
So, yes, Belarus can produce enough. But considering it needs to be shipped across a chunk of Europe and then across the Atlantic, I do not think it will cheaper in the long term.
‘member during the trade war when Ben’s favorite thing to say was “cut off electricity and potash to the US”.
What an idiot!
Brigitte Stegemann, “GG” or “Oma” to her family, was a German-born Christian living at The Pearl care home in Cannifton, near Belleville, Ontario.
Bozo the orange idiot can likely get Putin, after a helmet shine and swallow, to force Belarus to sell cheaper. What he doesn’t take into account is the potash is over 5000 mi or 8000 km and who pays the shipping.
Ben the paid commenter forgot what name he is arguing on and used his groovy aardvark name to reply.
I have seen 2 similar stories in the past month of old ladies getting maid without permission.
You spend all day in here defending Carney and don’t see most news in your Liberal bubble.
It’s an indication of the low level of intelligence and high gullibility that is expressed by the Trump anti-Canadian people on this comment section.
There you have it. An end run around the idiotic threats from the likes of Ford. All the stomping of feet, holding of breath and threats by Carney and Ford only serve to motivate Trump to find ways around the US dependance on Canadian exports. That leaves Canada on the world trade chessboard in a checkmated position, with very few moves available. Carney and Ford, because of their TDS and incompetence, have put Canada in a very precarious position with no hope of replacing the amount of potash traded with the USA with another country.
@John: What you can or can”t believe isn’t really relevant to anything, especially when it includes inane lies like the one about old people being put to death. All that tells us is that both your educational system and your critical thinking skills have failed you. You should really try to educate yourself before blathering on and embarrassing yourself.
Poor Trumpty Dumpty fell off the wall AGAIN!! Didn’t get his way again with his communist buddies!! Maybe Putin can twist some necks for him?? Naaa!!
Bunch of boomers complaining when you caused it. You got what you voted for. Suck it up
Yet another sign Trump is moving closer to dictatorships and away from democracies. He is making this move to show that. And we should oblige him by cutting off all critical mineral shipments to the US. Oil, Potash, Uranium, lumber, aluminum and steel.
This will drastically hurt the American economy and look extremely bad on Trump and help to oust him. We can’t keep going along with how things are. He is a bully and a tyrant and the only way to deal with them is to hit them where it hurts, because if we treat it as business as usual, he will entrench himself more and cut the US off from vital allies. And there will be a civil war in the US, that is all but guaranteed at this point, so best to weaken his position now before he is fully entrenched.
We are not the same. You don’t even know that happened but when I read that I was thinking “it happened again”.
Nobody takes you seriously after the 3rd time you cut and paste the exact same line word for word “Canada scores higher…”
You are a paid shill and your comments are right there on your dashboard to cut and paste.
@John. Canada scores higher than the US on world freedom and democracy indices. We score very well globally as well. If you want to attack our score, challenge the methodology, etc. You picked certain metrics, like “killing old people who don’t want to die,” which just aren’t grounded in facts.
I can’t believe the last line of the article.
How can Canada score 97 after freezing bank accounts, killing old people that don’t want to die, and trying to ban teenagers from social media.
Great. And go get cheaper oil and hydro power elsewhere too. And Canada will fully stop sending fentanyl and migrants to the US too. Anyone still listening to Trump “strategy” is listening to a dementia patient reading a children’s storybook to himself.
We’ll still get electric cars from China right? But those darned Americans trying to buy potash from Belarus. What monsters.
None of this is real. This is just a ham-handed attempt to put pressure on Canada to bend the knee. Problem is that anyone with sense knows that replacing Canadian potash with Belarussian potash won’t work. Very sad that this is how Trump tries to get Canada back to the table. He should try being a reasonable partner instead.
O)f course it’s cheaper, he’s the moron that put the tariffs on it!!
It’s a global commodities market, why the hell would Belarus undercut *themselves*? For cheaper? No, it will be more expensive – end of discussion. Belarus has NO excess capacity, which means the US is bidding on capacity that’s already spoken for. That means they’re not bidding against China, they’re bidding against what China thinks it will cost to *replace* what they get from Belarus. “For cheaper” is absolute pie-in-the-sky nonsense. Being able to get it *at all* is effectively impossible, the supply capacity doesn’t even exist, but for cheaper? He might as well promise to give every American a kajillion dollars.
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@Crusader. There is no infrastructure in Belarus to ship potash. Alexander Lukashenko, the leader of Belarus said, basically, it’s not possible to increase output. Logistics are against increasing exports. Investors will be wary of investing in a dictatorship. I’m sure you get the point.
Trump buying from Belarus is like Carney buying from the EU. Bone headed ideas along with the people who believe them.
Hubris is one of the deadly sins, eh Canucks? TRUMP is going to destroy Canada…
Little guys who pick fights with big guys deserve to get beat up.
more bluster aimed at canada but not connected to reality. and the cuddling up to putin continues. shameful.
The mask comes off, Fake US President and his fake administration ,now want to do business with US adversaries and treats allies like the enemy.
Canada would be wise to start purchasing nuclear weapons from it’s real allies in NATO.
Wake up Mr.Carney.
But first, watch this ad by Trivago…
Well now that’s genius. By the time it’s been shipped from Belarus through Russia put on a ship (where fuel oil is now priced sky high) and sent all the way to farmers in the US that lower priced potash isn’t going to seem much of a deal. In fact if my calculations are right they’ll be paying a good deal more than they would be getting it from Canada. Trump is such a child.
Trump is a poor person’s idea of a rich one, a weak person’s idea of a strong one and a dumb persons idea of a smart one.
Trump is on the same level as Einstein, he’s a GENIUS!
From every angle Trump is MAGAing and absolutely masterclass!
@ Roy stephenson – the only derangement here is Trump himself and the folks pretending he’s competent.
Trump derangement syndrome rife within the Global audience !!! Let’s see our failed liberals first blamed it on Covid, then it was the world recession after Covid. Then it was the tariffs and now it’s just plain and Simple it’s all Trumps fault.
But the big question is in two years when Trump has retired what will the Liberals use as an excuse for their incompetence.
There’s got to be something brewing.
does anybody need MORE evidence? This guy is working for Putin. He is an enemy of the free world and so are the scumbag traitor conservatives
Usually that means he intends to invade them to try to steal what he wants from the country.
Now who is going to buy your expensive potash? But eh, elbows up Canuks…
POTUS has been envious of POUTIN and his cronies. And a puppet to them. So it is only natural that when he is having so many failures he would try to snuggle up for a cuddle. The issue is not trade it is ownership and dictatorship. So if POTUS can’t get what IT wants from democratic nations. It will partner up with those after which it is fashioning. True colours being shown without any doubt.
The usual Trump stupidity. Next he’ll claim to pull golden eggs out of his butt.
Anonymous is a village idiot….I do agree with your statement that you have two brain cells though….
Anonymous is a village idiot
Canucks think they’re super smart turns out they are not that smart. Canucks thought they’re super were very special people turns out they are sub par dimwits living in the tundra.
Please call this morons bluff !
Saskatchewan cut the US off for a couple of weeks , no potash at all .
Maybe then some US farmer will do the right thing and put this idiot down !
On reflection IS IT A GOOD THING that americans have a rule that a person can only run for the Presidency of the USA 2 terms because like Trump has shown us ALL, the world to, he does NOT CARE WHAT HE DOES IN HIS SECOND TERM because he cannot run for the presidency again so even if he makes a lot of enemies for the USA economy HE DOES NOT CARE. His term in office cannot come soon enough for that reason, in this household anyway.
crazy old fool, put the orange turd down
Trump says he wants potash from Oz because the Wizard will give it to him for free.
DJT should be told to stick it where the sun don’t shine!
I know the complexity of this trade war with the US is difficult but I believe the true question from Canadians is “do we wish to have anything to do with this individual at all?” Is that question not the reason why we cant find resolution? This individual stands for everything we are not. Proud to be a Canadian, thier President has made it clear what whispers and coffee room talk has known since he has entered the politcal arena.
Why is Canadian news media reporting so heavily every brain fart some foreign president spits out of his mouth
Dont you have any real news to report?
They dont have enough potash to supply. It will never happen. (As per Lukashenka statement today)
Trump is stirring up the hornets nest again. Potash is a global commodity, much like oil. The price is controlled by the market, not Canada. Belarus potash is of lower quality than Canada which is why it costs less. Getting the potash from Belarus to US is difficult and expensive because Belarus is land locked. Since Trump told the Americans that the rising gas prices is relatively inexpensive to pay, then expect substantially higher price of lower grade potash from Belarus. If Trump doesn’t like the price of potash that is controlled by the market, then American farmers should know this: high prices are all due to Trump’s war on Iran which is already 7 months with no end in sight. Don’t blame the cost on Canada. Blame it on the war that Trump haven’t been able to solve.
Is Mosaic USA going to be the american distributor?
Didn’t Trump try to get the big oil producers to send him oil and do business so he could collect more billions? That didn’t work so why would Belarus business work? If he can do it great for him, Canada is expanding in all sorts of business and looking to a bright future independent of the US. Meanwhile the US still don’t have proper health care, gas prices soar, grocery prices keep increasing, human suffering takes place daily with people being shot by ICE, US is bankrupting itself by Trump and his oh so good business deals, people are paying the price for his tariffs but he is making it seem like they are doing great because of it. Go to Belarus they say, it’ll be fun! Just so laughable!
Trump wants all of Saskatoonawatchs potash or he’ll fugging NUKE ottawaneehee
The idiodacy of lib left lunatics, brain dead, living proof two dummies create someone even dumber
The idiocy of the Maple MAGA keyboard collective never ceases to amaze me. Same dumb talking “points”, same drivel, and about two brain cells shared amongst them. Just pack up and brush the Cheetos dust off your big ‘ole beer bellies on the way out.
By the time Carney is finished with Canada we won’t have ANYTHING to export to ANYONE.
Belarus is involved with Russia? The EU who is the overload of Canada still buys oil from Russia. But we are not allowed to say that.
If anyone believes Trump they are deluded. Potash in Belarus may be less expensive but add tariffs and transportation and it is more expensive to US farmers. But Trump never cares about facts when he’s B.S.’ing!
Belarus has issued a statement that they do not have Potash for the US.
Please check facts before publishing not new.
This is just Trump blowing smoke on social media, trying to get a rise out of Canadians. This is never going to happen. Remember, it’s been proven that Trump lies about 20-30 times a day. This is just another one of them.
Anonymous the village idiot….take a break from typing and let the educated people type…maybe you can learn something…..doubtful….but possible.
This could be an attempt to establish residency for Trump, I don’t think Belarus has an extradition treaty with the U.S.
Libturd traitors leave, go build a monument to your idol, creamhole carnee
This is nothing other than a “Smoke and Mirrors” ploy by Trump. There is no way Belarus can meet the US demand in a timely manner. He is grasping at straws before mid-terms.
MAGA traitors leave! You don’t belong here. Go build Trump monuments.
Good. Let the US deal with Belarus. Two Russian allies can have each other. We don’t need you anymore trump.
Trump has market brain fart. He tariff our aluminum, yet the US doesn’t produce enough aluminum attacking its own industry. Potash is the same. He is trying to bring us to our knees to control his sovereignty. We should keep looking outside the US until this dictator is gone. Any deal with the US afterwards will be gravy.
Belarus, Venezuela, etc. Are prime examples of where private markets don’t want to invest. They are unstable and not democratic. Sure, Trump forced I think Chevron to spend money in Venezuala but they’ll slow walk that. The idea that Trump can snap his fingers and get potash, critical minerals, etc. In the near term or even mid term is hilarious. It’s firstly about investor uncertainty. If Belarus could sell Potash cheaper, don’t you think greedy capitalists would have been developing it? Second, logistics. And look at how well Trump manages patriot missles or how he’s doing in Iran. Incompetence.
@Ben
Coming from you I take that as a compliment.
Belarus’ leader Lukashenka just said “Even if we wanted to supply potash to the West, there’s nothing to supply”, and added that they don’t have a deal in any case.
good for trump i would not deal with the idiot liberals either
Awe poor Elbows Uppers taking another massive blow. Ass Up! Assholes keep listening to your foreign leader Mr. Clowney.
Canada is like the corner store telling Walmart you’re done ..
@TDCripplesrationalthought. The whole area around Belarus lacks infrastructure. And do you think a private company is going to spend money in a dictatorship? It’s like Venezuala, by the time they get oil pumping properly it will be six years from now. Again, private companies don’t like risk. And Venezuala is risky.
One would think that this is a commodity sold at a set market price.
Potash mined in Saskatchewan can be loaded on a train or truck and go directly to the farmers in the USA. It’s reliable and easy to produce and transport.
Potash from Belarus must be loaded on trains, shipped through Latvia, Lithuania, or Poland, All NATO countries that do not support Belarus. The only other way is through Russia. IF it gets to tidewater then a terminal must be built, in a foreign country, to handle it for shipping by sea. There also has to be a receiving terminal to offload the ships and store it. Now it has to be loaded on trains to get it to the farmers. The costs of shipping it to the USA and delivering it where it’s needed would be more than the cost of the actual potash. Another ‘stoopit’ idea from Trump.
Hahaha jokes on Trump. Nobody smokes more weed than Canadians. Our potash is the best in the world.
Riiight. Is he stealing that too?
Blah, blah, blah says the giant orange idiot.
Funny how liberal global news complains that Belarus is 7/100 on the freedom index for usa to belarus trade because Canada trade all day and night with Chinas freedom index of 9!
@ben okay. They said Venezuela couldn’t ship oil cause the infrastructure collapsed under meduro et al. Wanna take a wager how quickly the US industrial machine can build up Belarus? You TDS is showing, as it does in every pathetic posting. If Carney wasn’t carbon captured he would have leverages his geographical advantages. Instead he’s having Canada punished because of TDS here and in EU. Enjoy your poverty. I’m sure your gruel will taste better knowing your cause was virtuous.
But it’s alright for canada to import cars from China.
Sorry gen xer but your notion of homogenous hatred of Trump is simply not accurate. To pretend Canada is guiltless in trade dealings is a flat out misinterpretation of truth. Admit your TDS to yourself and you’ll exercise better judgement
Belarus has inadequate infrastructure to do this, so this is a piece in the sky idea by Trump. He’s just trolling the people who don’t know simple logistics.
Belarus has been identified by the US administration as a country that uses forced or coerced labor. Funny how the US administration now wants to import goods from such a country when they tariff Canada for simply not doing enough to prevent the import of goods produced using forced labor. Note that there is no evidence Belarus produces potash with forced labor but it does used forced labor for lumber and furniture. It is also a country that is exempt from Trump’s US Section 301 forced labor action in any event.
I seen that coming 6 months ago.
Ali, You critisism of Canada is odd vecause that is exactly how every single human on earth with any form of consciousness has categorized Trump and his supporters.
If Canada makes threats to not sell stuff to the US then expect the US to shop elsewhere. It may cost less to buy and more to ship but will the overall cost be less than Canada that’s the big question because if it does cost less then Canada is in big trouble because we have loss a big buyer of our product and where will they make that loss up
It’s about time Carney and this Liberal government got back to the table to make deals about these tariffs.
Trump says fug cunada, he’ll get his minerals from da moon!
This shows that Trump will shop around for stuff he used to get from Canada and maybe it will cost more but he will get what he needs without the threat of not getting any. This is what happens when Canada threatens to cut off the supply Trump will go elsewhere who is Canada going to sell to. Why is it a negative that Trump will pay lots of shipping costs but it’s a positive if Canada does more trades with the EU. These Liberal supporters are totally blinded by their hate of Trump. Canada needs to sell our potash to the US more than Trump needs to buy it.
To The Orange Menace: Good luck with that. Belarus produces a third of what Canada produces, and their production and delivery costs will be much higher than potash from Canada. Oh, yeah, and prices are set by world markets.
Belarus may sell the potash to the US more cheaply, but the cost of shipping it to the US will eat into those savings.
@TDS: The EU is decreasing its reliance on dirty Russian oil with the intent of elimination…..its not trying to negotiate / increase its reliance on Russian puppet dictatorship allies. Capiche??!?
When will liberal voters realize we have no leverage?
@anonymous the EU is still buying oil and gas from Russia. I’m sure you’re excited to continue this association Carney has proposed. How can you be so critical of Trump but not the EU? Seems like TDS
Of course he does. Third world dictators tend to stick together
What he wants and what he actually gets is two VERY different things!
Well it’s ok, EU will buy our potash but ummm ehhh they don’t have fertilizer production plant.
ElbOwS up rich white boomturds.
The arrogant, entitled, brainwashed, unfriendly country that is today’s Canada is getting exactly what it has coming.
From one corrupt country to another. US has no ethics on where they buy their goods and services so just another corruption taking place that makes them look bad in the Democratic world countries. Time for countries who do have morals/ethics to stop trade with the US altogether, place sanctions on the US.
Brian Greenside… focus on Canada and Carney who wants deals with communist China, none of your business what Trump does!
Keep your elbows up and get lost!
Now Carney and the liberals get to extort Saskatchewan to help maintain the trade with the US, all part of their plan to deliberately sour trade relations with the US.
Anonymous is a village idiot…..the dim witted light bulb….oh tell us some more about the art of the deal….and your fascination with the human fart..amazing. comical actually.
Belarus is under EU sanctions, i.e. transporting through the Baltic states or Poland is highly unlikely. So, the only other way is through Russia to the Black Sea. So, the key word here: WORKING on a deal. Doesn’t have a deal. I suspect there will be more of such announcements in the wake of the midterms. More importantly, Canada charges $266 to 287 per tonne, Belarus charges $348 to $383 per tonne. Good luck negotiating.
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@anonymous and how does buying from Belarus directly help Putin? Gonna deny all trade with China? Your TDS blinds you.
Now we’re supposed to not do business with nations who are friendly with Putin? Guess that means all trade with China must stop! And Pakistan and India… but hey we could leverage out geographical advantage except our PM is disinterested in Canadian economic health.
Trump is such a moron. He sanctions countries doing any business with Iran. Now he wants to do business with Belarus who aids Russia in the war against Ukraine. Mid terms are coming, do the right thing people.
Lol the savings will be negated by shipping costs
Landlocked country so rail to port ship to USA then rail to customers. Trump is partially correct, Belarus would sell for substantial less on an FOB basis but transportation costs would greatly increase its cost to the farmer-customers. Bulk commodities is about transportation, power and infrastructure. Lastly USA would need virtually all of Belarus current production to replace what it buys from Canada.
Supposedly sanctions Russia a few days ago but wants to support a Russian puppet ally. Pathetic!
good luck with that. Shipping costs alone ( from a landlocked Eastern European country ) will be astronomical as will loading to ships and transit!! Ah yes, the Art of the Deal
When are people going to realize that America is no better than Russia.
Predictable. How has Canada been ripping off the US? As far as I’m concerned Canada has lived up to the obligations agreed with the US in CUSMA, NAFTA, the Canada US FTA, GATT, and WTO. Show me how I’m wrong.
@Leaving Canada: Why do you people always feel the need to announce your impending departure?!? Do you think it is some sort of threat?!? Or that anyone would care?!? Go ahead and show us all how much smarter you are than everyone else, and just go. Please.
Hilariously predictable – lies and bluster because he’s butt hurt Carney said “no” to him. And Trump has never met a dictator he didn’t love… Good luck putting all your eggs in a basket held by one of Russia’s closest allies, America.
Either this guy spends every day trying to out dumb his previous day, or he is a Russian agent trying to destroy America.
Can you really blame Trump for going elsewhere, I mean the PM walked away from any trade deals. They are sick of Canadians ripping off the US. After Trump secures cheap potash from other parts around the world, he’ll get the rest in Canada once we are 51st.
@Roy Stephenson. Your intelligence far exceeds mine. My response was tailored perfectly to respond to the fool comment. 🤷♂️
Trump is desperately trying to scare Canada into bending the knee and becoming a vassal state. Good thing we have a PM with a backbone. If Poilievre had won the last election he’d have run to Washington to kiss the ring. Keep in mind that this deal with Belarus is likely fake. Belarus produces potash, but it is already selling to customers on the world market and doesn’t have enough excess capacity to satisfy U.S. demand. In fact, Belarus doesn’t produce enough potash to satisfy U.S. demand. That makes it unlikely that the U.S. could displace Canadian potash based on Belarus purchases and likely not at a 53% savings over Canadian prices.
We could crank up the trade war… Invite President XI to stop by Ottawa when he’s done in Washington
hmm, what could go wrong. a guy making a deal with communists over allies , same guy that bankrupts casino’s……
if tramp farts those that support hmm would think it a beautiful snell.
@ Leaving Canada – bye.
Trump says the US is making a deal to buy potash from a country that does not have enough to meet their needs.
Oh, and the US has won the war with Iran again. The US controls the Strait of Hormuz. It’s open.
It’s amusing to see Global news tout low freedom index scores when it comes to Belarus. Yet somehow it’s ok for Canada to cozy up to China who had a score of 9.
Canada is a giant double standard country.
12 years ago Canada productivity was on par with the US. We’re now 40% below the US. And we can’t even acknowledge that reality yet lol. Our own stubborn stupidity is proving to be the final nail in the coffin for this once great country.
Wow supporting the closest Russian ally who hosts troops while attacking Ukraine. The world will be a better place when Trump has no power.
Trump lying again
Ben, everyone who posts on here already figured out your intelligence level no need to reiterate the fact.
Carney failed to make a deal and now the U.S. Will take it business elsewhere, dumping Liberal Canada like the Parsley on a Truck Stop Platter.
Way to go Carney, maybe we can sell our goods to some Third World dump that won’t pay us anything for it
Lukashenko says all of Belarussian potash production for 2026 is already contracted to other countries.
Elbows up clowns . First Greenland and now being praised by liberals, aluminum from elsewhere, oil from Venezuela and soon to be potash for cheaper from Belarus . No big deal it’s only 53 percent of Canadas potash that goes (or was going ) to USA .
Carney is a master negotiator! Life is cheaper here thanks to him . Meanwhile that big dictator finding better deals for his country while we cozy up to ….well a dictatorship in the CCP. Soon the chugs will be leveraging their new land handouts against Canada threatening to give resources to China . Eby also a genius !
Oops I’m late for my MAID consultation.
@Roy Stephenson. There is inadequate infrastructure to ship potash from Belarus. The EU/Canada have more than adequate infrastructure in order to trade. That’s the difference, and anyone with a scintilla of knowledge about logistics would realize that. Look on a map, research Belarus, and do some research instead of using the term fool.
First Trump gets a deal to buy Aluminum from Venezuela, now potash from Belarus
that’s what you get when you try to screw people around.
18 months of Carney no trade deals except spy cars from China.
“Elbows up suckers”
Who cares about the political spin? It is hard to believe that there is infrastructure to import the tonnage of potash that the US needs from Eastern Europe. And what that shipping would cost… This is just more posturing by Trump. When he and ‘Nutty’ attacked Iran, causing the strait to shut down, that supply chain was broken. He puts pressure on himself every time he moves.
@Ben
Hilarious !
But Carney can chase trade contracts in Europe. Those shipping costs wouldn’t negate those deals right ?
No fool like an old fool !!!
Hilarious! The shipping costs would negate this deal. Wonderful that Trump is supporting Putin’s friend in Belarus. One dictator supporting another! Trump is just hot air and bluster!
Hands and knees, face flat on the bed, it’s called the carnhole position
Ankles up
Elbows up!