“Canada – USA Tariff Wars”

Canadians responded to President Trump’s first round of tariffs a year and a half ago with a grass-roots effort to bruise the United States, boycotting alcohol, vegetables and cross-border travel.

They rallied around the flag, inspected grocery labels like detectives and shopped local, all while Prime Minister Mark Carney looked across the ocean for new trade partnerships. Across the country, Canadians had elbows up, an idiom of defiance ignited by the Canadian comedian Mike Myers that has its roots in hockey.

They won’t be dropping elbows any time soon, as new and threatened tariffs endanger jobs and the existence of companies both large and small.

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“This is a very different Ontario race than the one we saw in July,” Liaison’s David Valentin said.

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Using the bathroom or having a cry is about to become more expensive for North Americans as the US and Canada enter a full-fledged trade war that threatens to flush away decades of peaceful trading between the two nations.

After trade negotiations broke down between the two countries last weekend, Mark Carney, the Canadian prime minister, vowed to match US tariffs “dollar for dollar” and unveiled a list of nearly 900 American goods that will face 25% to 50% tariffs starting on 8 September.

TORONTO—Doug Ford came out swinging.

After trade talks collapsed and the U.S. imposed new tariffs on Canada last weekend, the Ontario premier urged his country to take a hard line with the U.S. President Trump, he said, was a “dictator,” a “loser,” the “king of bankruptcies” and could “kiss my ass.”

How angry was he on a scale of one to 100? “110,” he told The Wall Street Journal.

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Despite the U.S. and Canada coming very, very close to a concord on trade, it fell apart at the 11th hour.

The result? 50 per cent tariffs on more than $28 billion worth of Canadian exports. And Canada pledging dollar-for-dollar retaliation.

Now, there is still reason to believe this might be temporary. Both sides get hurt in a trade war. Canada more so, obviously, just given our relative size as compared to the U.S. market.

“We’ve got the reserves, we’ve got the resilience, we’ve got the plan,” a defiant Mark Carney told journalists after the breakdown of trade talks with the White House over the weekend.

Few would make the case that Canada was “attacked” and therefore is “at war”, as its prime minister plainly put it, and the idea that the country is in a position to withstand a full-blown economic conflict with the US is pretty silly.

Nearly 75pc of Canadian exports head to the US market, and the US economy is roughly 10 times larger. Meanwhile, the new sweeping tariff slate covers another C$28bn (£15bn) worth of Canadian exports – equivalent to 5pc of products sent south of the border.

In response to the ongoing trade dispute, the Canadian government has placed new surtaxes on a wide range of goods imported from the United States.

The table below includes some of the key products on the government’s list. CTVNews.ca has broken down the items into simple, everyday categories—from dairy and household appliances to clothing and sporting goods—to show you which items will be affected and at what rate, either 25% or 50%.

Potash is Canada’s “pink gold” — one of the country’s most valuable natural resources and a cornerstone of global food production.

With tensions escalating between Canada and the United States, some Canadians want Ottawa to impose a surtax on potash exports to the American market. The proposal appears compelling. The United States depends heavily on Canadian potash, an essential fertilizer used to produce corn, wheat, soybeans and many other crops. If Washington targets Canadian industries, why shouldn’t Canada retaliate with a resource American farmers cannot easily do without?

It’s rare to hear so many figures in the U.S. administration talking about Canada.

On Monday, U.S. President Donald Trump posted a threat to impose 50-per-cent tariff on all Canadian cars and Vice-President JD Vance was at a rally in Maine smiling at his own smarmy joke about Canada being a state. The day before, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy was predicting a weak Canada would rush negotiators back to the table to avoid the devastating impact of U.S. tariffs.

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Welcome to Trade Wars, the reality show that pits the mighty United States of America against the mouse that roared, aka Canada. How’s everyone feeling today? “Kiss my ass!” yells Ontario Premier Doug Ford. “Flunky! I will rename Lake Ontario Lake America,” claps back U.S. President Donald Trump. Insert laugh track, cut to a commercial for a Ford F-150 pickup, and check out the ratings — 76 per cent of Canadians agree with Prime Minister Mark Carney’s decision to quit the talks. Everyone’s watching — what a hit.

The latest failure in the trade talks between Canada and the United States has revealed a basic mismatch between political rhetoric and economic reality. Although Canadian officials, such as Prime Minister Mark Carney and the country’s trade negotiators, are still expressing confidence and maintaining that Canada has real leverage in arriving at a future agreement, the basic economic situation paints a completely different picture—one which Canadian businesses understand far better than the political leadership responsible for representing them.