“Canada – USA Tariff Wars”

Here’s the thing about awful, soul-destroying relationships: sometimes, you come out on the other end a stronger, better person.

It’s hard to see the benefits when you’re constantly being lied to, cheated on and disparaged. It’s emotionally exhausting and you know you need to get out, but you signed a lease together and you need his income to make the payments. Plus, you think you love him.

So you ride out his unpredictable mood swings and grit your teeth as you watch him smother his steak in ketchup. You don’t know how you’ll survive – but somehow, you do.

Doug Ford is mad, and he has every right to be. While his province suffered from wildfires and evacuations, a lineup of American politicians chose to criticize and politicize Ontario’s response, rather than offer to help. To add insult to injury, U.S. President Donald Trump imposed a new set of unjustifiable tariffs on Monday that disproportionately harm Ontario’s economy.

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer grew up in a mobile home in Paradise, Calif. He insists that it wasn’t in a mobile home park, it was just a mobile home. That should tell you something about the man charged with implementing Donald Trump’s trade policies.

His mother was a Wells Fargo teller and his father moved from job to job, including a stint in plastic injection moulding, “before those jobs went to Asia.” A “National Geographic” subscription was the family’s window on the wider world.

TORONTO—Prime Minister Mark Carney swept to power promising an “elbows out” stance against President Trump’s tariff threats and rhetoric, vowing he would never accept a bad trade deal.

Sixteen months later, Carney says he has avoided making a bad deal but critics say it has come at a cost: A series of trade concessions to the U.S. that are beginning to add up.

Carney has scrapped a digital-services tax affecting U.S. tech companies, rolled back retaliatory levies and halted streaming regulations opposed by American companies.

Carney was “swept” to a minority government, the WSJ is not a Trump fan.

The Trump administration’s announcement of a new round of tariffs on Canadian goods may be less of a reprisal over trade barriers and more about gaining leverage in CUSMA negotiations, trade watchers suggest.

Whether the measures are legal are not is open to debate, but that may not matter because for now they put Canada in a difficult position of whether to strike back and risk even further heightening the trade war or to try playing along with President Donald Trump’s game.

Canada’s dairy industry policy is among the most politically sacrosanct in the country. It has also long been a thorn in the side of Donald Trump.

Now, Canada’s dairy supply management system is back in the spotlight after the US president singled it out as one of three main irritants used to justify a 50% tariff on $20bn worth of Canadian goods imported to the US, which is set to come into effect in August.

Trump argues the system, which sees production quotas, set pricing, and import quotas on dairy, eggs, and poultry, is “unreasonable” to American farmers who want to sell their product north of the border.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s position in his trade dispute with Canada is that this country must absorb any and all unprovoked acts of aggression and possibly even ask the Americans if they can deliver more hardship, maybe even thank the president for imposing tariffs on us. It is difficult to draw any other conclusion from the new round of tariffs Trump has pledged this week to enact on Canada.

Canada has long cultivated the image of America’s friendly, free-trading neighbor. The reality is less polite.

Behind the maple-leaf branding is a protectionist system that singles out American farmers, distillers, automakers, and workers. Canada demands access to the American market while reserving the right to close its own when competition becomes inconvenient.

This is not how completion of the Gordie Howe International Bridge should have ended, with Canada giving in to another U.S. shakedown.

A few days before the bridge’s originally scheduled opening on June 15, U.S. President Donald Trump renewed his threat, first stated in February, to block the opening of the Canadian-built and financed Windsor-Detroit bridge.

Of course Carney lied … Text of Gordie Howe Bridge deal with U.S. contradicts Carney’s initial description

More … Read the full text of the Gordie Howe Bridge deal: ‘Proposed agreement in principle’

He lies because he can.

Mark Carney on the run. Why is this failure so popular with too many Canadians? https://t.co/Fex6ePNbEw

— David Krayden (@DavidKrayden) July 22, 2026

Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930 – yes, that tariff act, aka the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, the law that famously turned a stock market crash into a worldwide depression – authorizes the President of the United States to impose tariffs on imports from foreign countries that impose “any unreasonable charge, exaction, regulation, or limitation which is not equally enforced upon the like articles of every foreign country,” or that otherwise discriminate “against the commerce of the United States.” The tariff can be anything up to 50 per cent.