Canadian Factory Output Tanks—Another Victim of Stagnant Industrial Policy

Canada’s manufacturing sector just got served a brutal reality check. Factory sales crater—no surprise for an economy still treating industrial strategy like a 20th-century relic.

The Numbers Don’t Lie

No need for fuzzy metrics here. The data screams contraction, with production lines gathering dust and order books thinning faster than a trader’s patience during a bear market.

Crypto Parallel? Hardly.

Unlike decentralized networks that adapt in real-time, Canada’s industrial policy moves at bureaucratic speeds—proving again that legacy systems fail when agility matters most. Maybe they should’ve hodl’d some innovation.

US senators have been urging Canada to refresh tourism and trade relations

Against this backdrop, five U.S. senators made a rare trip to Ottawa last weekend. They met Friday with Prime Minister Mark Carney, who has said he wants a fresh economic and security partnership with the United States despite what he called an end to the era of “deep integration.”

Republican Senator Kevin Cramer of North Dakota told Mercedes Stephenson on The West Block that stronger ties were vital. “We have to do this stuff together,” he said. “We’ll be better at it if we’re friends than if we’re just tolerating one another.… I’m just here to say thank you, and then to encourage Canadians to take another look and give us another chance.”

Relations between the two countries have chilled since President Donald TRUMP imposed broad tariffs on Canadian imports and suggested Canada could become the 51st U.S. state. Tourism has taken a hit, too. Statistics Canada reported four straight months of steep year-over-year declines in U.S. visitors to Canada, and some U.S. states have responded with ad campaigns to send Canadians back.

Virginia’s Democratic Senator Tim Kaine said bookings by Canadian tourists to his state are “down significantly.” He and his fellow senators wanted to ease worries in Canada. “We were aware, because we all have great friends in Canada, that there was a lot of anxiety about, well, gosh, what do Americans think of us?” Kaine said. “The five of us wanted to come to say, ‘Look, we love Canada.’”

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