Francisca Sinn“On Friday night the trade talks collapsed. On Saturday morning, the 50 percent tariffs kicked in on about 20 billion dollars of Canadian goods, everything from beer and cheese to hockey sticks, under Section 338 of a 1930 tariff law nobody had touched since 1949. Trump went on Truth Social and posted that Canada wants the benefits of being a state without being one. Mark Carney stood up in Ottawa, got asked why it sounded like he was going to war, and said, “Because we were attacked.” Dollar-for-dollar retaliation starts September 8. Steel, dairy, appliances, farm equipment, pulp and paper, electronics.
Angus Reid polled the country over the weekend. Seventy-six percent of #Canadians say walking away from the table was the right call. In a country that can’t agree on whether milk goes in a bag, three out of four of us just agreed on a fight.
I want to explain to our #Americans friends, and I do mean friends, what that number means.”
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