Canadian leaders are meeting today to discuss potential responses to Trump's announced 25% tariffs on our exports (cbc.ca/news/politics/…). My advice: retaliation simply isn't credible, because it would hurt Canada's economy far more than that of the US. However, there are ways

The Maine economy is integrated with Canada, our most important trading partner. Certain tariffs will impose a significant burden on many families, manufacturers, the forest products industry, small businesses, lobstermen, and agricultural producers. For example, 95 percent of

Why does Canada exist? This may seem like a strange question. No one asks, say, France or Paraguay to justify their statehood. But this question has long preoccupied Canadians. For tariff day, my column about the crisis of Canadian nationhood. thecritic.co.uk/issues/februar…

suddenly relevant stat: the united states imports about 4m barrels a day of oil from canada

Pour one out for everyone who bet on Bessent's moderating influence

This post from a Canadian Redditor hits hard:

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced that Canada will respond to the 25% Tariffs placed on Canadian Goods by U.S. President Trump, by issuing 25% Retaliatory Tariffs on $155 Billion in American Goods entering Canada.

Great start of American-Canada trade war

The fact that the 10% tariff on Canadian energy is being spun as a moderate step--and not a historic, unilateral act to increase the price of energy by a president who campaigned on lowering gas prices--suggests this is only the beginning.

The UN Charter was drafted in 1945 by people who had learned the lessons that the aggression, isolationism and tariff barriers of the 20’s and 30’s had led the world into a conflagration. Article One makes it clear: threats of annexation are illegal. So are unilateral tariffs in

Little anecdote about Canadian “internal trade barriers” from my time in Quebec’s ministry of Finance. 🧵

The US declared to impose 25% tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico (effective from Tuesday). Canada has retaliated with 25% tariffs on US imports. A trade war between these two major trading partners brings no benefits to their economies and their citizens. A thread: 1/11

every us president from truman to bush sr lobbied to get canada into the agreement the united states is presently lighting on fire. the politics of this are going to be toxic for a long time.

Completely agree with @alanbeattie, the issue is less the specifics of the tariffs themselves and more what they signal about decisionmaking going forward, especially when viewed in the context of other initiatives coming from the executive: ft.com/content/c26b41…

Tariffs threats are already affecting the Canadian economy. A thread 1/8 theglobeandmail.com/business/artic…

a look at the united states’ biggest trading partners for steel, ahead of trump’s 25% tariff announcement

macron shares some deepfake videos to publicize ai summit (and announces 109 billion euro ai investment, trying to compete at least a little with the united states)

Canadian cities most vulnerable to Trump tariffs.

Russia exports a lot of oil and industrial metals (like aluminum and nickel) ... But we already have a nice supply of oil (we even get it as a discount) from Canada, and lots of clean hydro based aluminum from Canada too. Much less risky than Russian supply ... 2/2

I stand by an earlier comment: looking to Russia for "economic development" while fighting with Canada over trade is absolutely nuts ...