However, if Prime Minister Justin Trudeau resigns in a few days, his successor will face the worst relations between the United States and Canada since the Great Prase trade war. Without a doubt, they are approaching the lower tier, which has not been seen since the 19th century.
After a week of disruptive signal from the White House, Trump said he is committed to impose a potentially catastrophic 25% tariff on most exports from Canada except oil and gas, which are facing a 10% tax.
[Read: Trump Says Canada and Mexico Tariffs Will Go Into Effect Next Week]
If you remember when Trump first began proposing tariffs in Canada and Mexico, it seems like it was a long time ago now, but he had two justifications. He argued that the US was overrun by immigration and that fentanyl was poisoned across the border with the country's two major trading partners.
Trudeau's government responded with a CAD 1.3 billion package of measures to strengthen the border. He named him the “Emperor Fentanyl” and flew along the border with two Black Hawk helicopters at Mount, assigned numerous officers to the border patrol, and purchased various surveillance equipment, including drones.
Canada Director Matina Stevis Gridneff went to Koots, Alberta, to see the project active. What she finds is that instead of stopping immigrants coming out of Canada, a new patrol is picking up people fleeing the US.
[Read: Canada Curbed Illegal Migration to the U.S. Now People Are Heading to Canada.]
Trump's arguments about tariffs may be based on the view that the US will subsidize Canada. This idea is part of the general debate by the President, with trade being used in other parts of the world to “break away” the United States and undermine its industry.
In Canada, his subsidy claim appears to be related to his trade surplus with the US. This means that Americans receive goods and services from Canada for money, and therefore are the result of oil and gas exports to the US.
My colleagues Anna Swanson, Andrew Duren and Colby Smith, “Mistertrump argues that tariffs will cost the US and rarely rake with the vast amount of revenue that the government can use to balance tax cuts, spending payments, and even federal budgets.”
However, in an analysis of Trump's trade declaration, they said, “Taxes cannot achieve all the goals Trump has expressed at the same time. In fact, many of his objectives are contradictory and weakened with one another.”
[Read: When It Comes to Tariffs, Trump Can’t Have It All]
If there is no last-minute reprieve, and tariffs are in effect shortly after midnight on Tuesday, Trudeau has made it clear that Canada will retaliate with its own taxes.
But they are unlikely to backtrack Trump right away, and they don't reverse the plant closure or inflation that most experts and many industry leaders expect.
The petition calling on the government to revoke the large Musk Canadian citizenship that the work for Trump makes him is “a member of a foreign government trying to erase Canada's sovereignty.”
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onimitsu onishi wrote a delicate and obvious profile of Sandra Demontinny, the 45-year-old mother of three in Levis, Quebec.
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Toronto photographer and regular Times contributor Ian Wilms has a strong visual story about a safe injection site in Mos Park, the city. Since 2018, it has reversed 3,040 overdoses. Currently, developers are planning to build a condominium there. The Ontario government has said it will stop opening new safe injection sites. This means that this site will not be allowed to resume new licenses once they are evicted.
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A search for a Prairie Green landfill near Winnipeg “identifies potential human bodies.” Matina Stevis-Gridneff and Kim Wheeler report that “it could be the bodies of two Indigenous women killed by serial killers, as far as possible if they devastated the community and brought the issue of violence against Indigenous women in Canada to the forefront.”
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In the book, Leah Greenblatt reviews two “very personal respects” for Joni Mitchell.
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Drake cancelled four tour dates in Australia and New Zealand as his representative described it as a “scheduling conflict.”
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Josh Ocampo from Times Insider chatted with me about my work.
Ian Austin The Times' Canada report and is based in Ottawa. Originally from Windsor, Ontario, he has covered politics, culture and Canadian people, and has been reporting on the country for 20 years. He can reach with austen@nytimes.com. More about Ian Austin
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