“Canada – USA Tariff Wars”

TORONTO — Premier Doug Ford is threatening to cut off critical minerals and electricity exports to the United States and has told President Donald Trump he can “kiss my ass” after the latest escalation in the trade war.

In a radio interview Monday morning, Ford responded to Trump’s new threat of 50% tariffs on Canadian cars, trucks, auto parts and steel starting next year by saying: “Well, he can kiss my ass, as far as I’m concerned.”

Ontario Premier Doug Ford reacted to U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to increase tariffs on cars and trucks next year, saying he can “kiss my ass.”

In a post on his Truth Social platform Monday morning, Trump said he will increase tariffs on “all Cars, Trucks, both large… pic.twitter.com/itDS7pGYIh

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When he was asked on Saturday by reporters if Canada was now in a trade war with the United States, Prime Minister Mark Carney said that we were. Because we had been attacked.

I agree with him. But we’re also in an info war. This isn’t something we have traditionally been good at. But it’s something we’re going to have to learn very quickly if we want to avoid being squashed like a bug.

Consider Saturday. As I listened to Carney talk about how amazing our new electricity grid is going to be, I found myself wondering why. It’s not that new hydroelectric production and transmission lines aren’t important. They definitely are. But it wasn’t the story of the day.

Did Quebec made a threat about the Dairy cartel.

U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to increase tariffs on all cars and trucks to 50 per cent next year following a collapse in trade talks with Canada.

For the past 18 months, I’ve used the phrase “precarity mindset” to describe something deeper than financial stress. It is the feeling that the systems you depend on may not hold, that the future is getting harder to predict and that events beyond your control can suddenly change the course of your life.

When people feel that way, they do not need a leader to promise that everything will be fine. They need the risk acknowledged, the truth explained, a path forward and some sense that they still have agency.

That was the setting for Prime Minister Mark Carney’s address to Canadians on Saturday morning.

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is formally requesting that Prime Minister Mark Carney recall Parliament to scrutinize his decisions to end trade talks with the U.S. and retaliate with dollar-for-dollar tariffs.

Poilievre made his request in a letter sent to Carney on Sunday evening, saying “we must put the national interest first.”

“Canadians elect Parliament to defend their interests and decide the hard questions. Those questions can no longer wait. The Official Opposition has a duty to ask questions and hold the government to account. That is why I write to ask you to reconvene Parliament without delay.”

U.S. President Donald Trump is reviving his annexationist rhetoric after Canada walked away from a punishing prospective trade deal.

In his first comments since talks collapsed late Friday, triggering an escalation in Mr. Trump’s continental trade war, the President posted to Truth Social shortly after 1 a.m. on Sunday.

“Canada wants the benefits of being a State, without being one!!! They have also charged our great farmers, for many years, massive amounts of Tariffs. No more!!!” Mr. Trump wrote.

US President Donald Trump has said Canada wants “the benefits of being a State, without being one” after trade talks between the two countries collapsed late on Friday.

In his first comments since negotiations broke down, triggering new 50% US tariffs on a range of Canadian goods, Trump also said American farmers had been charged “massive amounts of Tariffs” for years.

It comes after Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney called the fresh tariffs a “miscalculation” designed to “hurt and divide us”.

U.S.-Canada trade talks collapsed last night. Punitive Trump tariffs will now go into effect. Canada will reciprocate with retaliatory tariffs of its own.

The story may not be over. Donald Trump is notorious for issuing threats, then reversing them. Wars are on, off, on again, off again, then on a third time—but only as a “little detour.” This is not an administration that thinks even one move ahead. But without a supersized Trump TACO, the U.S.-Canada impasse likely won’t resolve soon.

The Trump administration has one big idea about Canada: The U.S. is larger, stronger, and richer than Canada, so Canada must sooner or later surrender to Trump’s demands.

That one big idea is wrong.

David Frum alert.

OTTAWA — Federal conservatives are calling on the government to release the full details of the trade offer from the United States that Canada rejected this week.

In a letter to Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc, Canada-U.S. relations critic Shuvaloy Majumdar said while his party supports the government’s decision to reject the deal, Parliament is in the dark on what was on the table.

Majumdar said he’s not asking for “negotiating secrets,” but rather information that both the Canadian and U.S. governments already know.

Surely someone took notes? Or did the dog eat them.