Canada is getting the full brunt Trump’s venting over their dairy and auto industry tariffs. The US made a Nafta deal with Mexico last month and is under pressure to make it three-way to include Canada. But Trump appears to have taken a dislike to the Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland, who has been leading the negotiations and has turned down a meeting with PM Justin Trudeau. He also said he is still willing to put a “motherlode” tariff on Canadian auto parts, which could affect $200bn of Canadian exports to the US – and deeply upset parts of the US auto industry who depend on them.
The Canada chart does look on tenterhooks and discouraged with tr Saturn opposition their Cancer Sun Uranus and conjunct their midheaven before the end of the year and square Neptune on and off through 2019, which will be panicky and uncertain; plus their resolutely stubborn Saturn opposition Pluto has moved by Solar Arc to sit squarely on their Neptune and Ascendant/Descendant, picking up in 2017 and running on for another three years. Saturn Pluto is associated with hardship and difficult conditions; on top of Neptune it’ll bring major confusion and concern.
The Canada/USA relationship chart is being sharply elbowed for the next six months or so from tr Uranus opposition the composite Saturn; with angry outbursts November till next April. And a definite gulf in this December.
Trump’s relationship with Justin Trudeau will hit a further low late this October till the New Year; and is anyway never going to be a bro-romance – quite the opposite.
Trump’s relationship with Canada is also aggravated at best (did they turn down one of his hotels?) and is split and bumpy into 2019.
The Bank of Canada chart, 11 March 1935, is moving into an acutely challenging, frustrating and scary few years from early 2019 with tr Pluto square the Mars and opposition the Pluto and then on to square the Uranus.
Chrystia Freeland, 2 August 1968, has her Leo Sun exactly conjunct Trump’s 12th house Pluto so he’ll enjoy pulling her strings. Her Mars in Cancer is conjunct his Saturn for more aggro; and she has one of these tricky Yods of Pluto Uranus sextile Neptune (Moon) in Scorpio inconjunct Saturn in Aries which will make her self-reliant to the nth degree, which possibly presses his female-issues buttons as well as whatever beef he has with Canada.
There doesn’t seem much hope of a rapprochement any time soon.
Would be interested in knowing more about the outrageously smart, capable Chrystia Freeland. Someone like that seems destined for a role on the world stage. Justin Trudeau’s inner circle is a stark contrast to the turmoil and, well the slime surrounding Donald Trump.