“Canada – USA Tariff Wars”

For some Canadian businesses facing a 50 per cent U.S. tariff kicking in at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday, the pain is already being felt.

The new tariff, on $28 billion of goods ranging from hockey sticks to dairy products, electronics and wooden doors, is the latest salvo in a trade war initiated by U.S. President Donald Trump.

The mere threat of the tariff has already been enough to scare off some U.S. customers from continuing to place orders with Canadian suppliers, said Dan Kelly, CEO of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business.

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Donald Trump says he’s extended the deadline for Canada and the United States to reach a deal before the U.S. imposes a new round of 50 per cent tariffs on Canadian goods.

“I have paused the 50% Tariffs against Canada, that were scheduled to kick in tomorrow morning for a three day period, based on the fact that Canada and the U.S.A., subject to the finalization of documents, have a DEAL! The great Keystone XL Pipeline, long ago killed by Sleepy Joe Biden, may be awoken from the grave!” the U.S. president wrote on Truth Social late Tuesday night.

Booze and DAIRY?

Trump's official declaration says Canada has "expressed a commitment to remove the discriminations or unreasonable and unequal impositions" on dairy, alcohol and vehicles, the basis of the potential new tariffs:https://t.co/nSN0vIcZU3

— Josh Wingrove (@josh_wingrove) August 19, 2026

Let’s start with what everyone knows: The end of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, if it comes to that, would be bad for the Canadian economy. You know it, I know it, Ottawa knows it.

Art of the Deal Donnie is counting on us being so fearful that we’ll offer up all sorts of concessions in an attempt to mollify him, because without access to the U.S. market, our economy would surely collapse.

Whistling past the graveyard or setting new public expectations?

Canada is bracing for a U.S. tariff deadline arriving at midnight on Tuesday, when a number of new levies by the Trump administration will come into effect unless negotiators strike an 11th-hour deal.

The United States’ trade representative, Jamieson Greer, who is heading the talks for the U.S. side, said last week that the negotiators were reviewing options and that he expected Canada to drop certain measures it had already taken in response to U.S. tariffs.

The latest arbitrary deadline to a gratuitous threat made by an untrustworthy president falls this week when Aug. 19 arrives and the U.S. does or does not introduce 50 per cent tariffs on a package of Canadian goods.

The degree to which this seizes Mark Carney might be indicated by the fact the prime minister chose to spend a week vacationing in Italy rather than nibbling his nails as the minutes ticked down. Sure, his aides say he stayed in close contact with Ottawa, but anyone who’s spent any time in Italy knows that distant crises always seem somewhat less desperate when considered over a cappuccino while pondering a statue or two in a pleasant piazza.

Trade talks between Canada and the United States entered the home stretch with just two days to go before a fresh round of tariffs from U.S. President Donald Trump hit on Wednesday.

As Canadian officials try to hash out a trade deal with their American counterparts, Canadians are divided on how to respond to U.S. trade aggression, new polling from Abacus Data said on Monday.

Ontario has no choice but to welcome massive data centres in order to protect Canada from U.S. President Donald Trump, warns Premier Doug Ford.

In a speech Monday to delegates to the Association of Municipalities of Ontario convention in Ottawa, Ford touted his government’s plan to attract the facilities while addressing environmental and electricity concerns.

“Ontario has a choice: we can build the economy of the future and ensure Canadians’ data remains in Canada or we can get left behind and risk Canadians’ data being sent to the U.S. and into the hands of President Trump,” the premier said.

Prime Minister Mark Carney said last-minute negotiations with the U.S. to avoid a fresh batch of tariffs due to take effect this week are “delicate” and “intense,” and he plans to speak to his American counterpart in the next 48 hours to broker a mutually agreeable deal.

Speaking to reporters in St. John’s on Monday, where he announced a landmark hydroelectric deal with Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador, Carney said he was reluctant to publicly discuss how talks are going to avoid U.S. President Donald Trump’s threatened Section 338 tariffs on billions of dollars’ worth of Canadian goods.

Some Canadian negotiators fear there may be no way to avert new U.S. tariffs from taking effect Wednesday, as Ottawa struggles to win relief from Washington on existing sectoral tariffs while also trying to persuade provinces to lift restrictions on American alcohol, sources tell CBC News.

Multiple sources — in both Canada and the U.S. — have been briefed directly on the negotiations and were granted confidentiality to speak frankly about the talks.

Negotiations continue to intensify, with Radio-Canada reporting that Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc is expected to meet again Sunday with his counterpart, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer. It would be their third meeting in a week.

Casualties incoming.

The lead Prime Minister Mark Carney and the Liberals hold over the Conservatives is in part attributable to whom Canadians most trust to address looming tariff threats from the United States, although pollsters and strategists have mixed views on how significantly that lead could diminish if Ottawa doesn’t land a favourable trade deal when the dust settles.

Right now, “the primary lens” used to judge the party leaders is connected to how U.S. President Donald Trump and the American relationship are managed, said Nik Nanos, chief data scientist at Nanos Research, adding that Canadians believe Carney (Nepean, Ont.) can do a better job on this front.