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#BREAKING: Trump to impose new 50% tariffs on Canadian goods in retaliation to booze ban, dairy ctvnews.ca/world/trumps-t…














I genuinely appreciate what Donald Trump has done in smoking out those Canadians who love Trumpism more than they like Canada or appreciate being Canadian. I won't forget.




No federal leader, of any political stripe, shows up to celebrate the bridge opening with Howard Lutnick at this point. Part of it is optics for your voter base, clearly the case here, but also recognizing it would serve no strategic purpose, it wouldn’t better the relationship.





Eby: "The United States is a huge market that is impossible for Canada to replace. But at the end of the day, if they don't want Canadian goods, if they don't like Canada, there's not a lot we can do about that. So let's focus our energy on the places that are really excited to trade with us and take this generational opportunity so that our kids are not put in the same situation of being too dependent on the United States."



A reporter asks Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe if he's "elbows down" about taking on the U.S. in a trade war. "I want a trade agreement with the United States of America ... why would you want to fight with your largest trading partner?" he says.



Eby: "The United States is a huge market that is impossible for Canada to replace. But at the end of the day, if they don't want Canadian goods, if they don't like Canada, there's not a lot we can do about that. So let's focus our energy on the places that are really excited to trade with us and take this generational opportunity so that our kids are not put in the same situation of being too dependent on the United States."



No federal leader, of any political stripe, shows up to celebrate the bridge opening with Howard Lutnick at this point. Part of it is optics for your voter base, clearly the case here, but also recognizing it would serve no strategic purpose, it wouldn’t better the relationship.


