Senior Canadian official says tariffs will take effect on Tuesday

President Donald Trump launched a trade war against Canada on Saturday by imposing a 25 per cent tariff on virtually all goods from this country — an unprecedented strike against a longstanding ally that has the potential to throw the economy into a tailspin.

Trump’s long-threatened plan to inflict economic pain on Canada has materialized on the day he said it would, and it includes a 10 per cent tariff on Canadian energy products, according to a senior Canadian official who shared details of Trump’s plan with CBC News.

These potentially devastating tariffs will take effect on Tuesday and remain in place until Trump is satisfied Canada is doing enough to stop the flow of fentanyl into the U.S., the government official said.

  • @[email protected]English
    2•1 month ago

    As an American:

    Whyyyyy what could we possibly stand to gain from doing this, ever? This is so stupid.

    Unless the goal is simply to crash the economy so billionaires can buy businesses for cheap, I really have difficulty imagining why we would ever do this.

    • @[email protected]
      2•1 month ago

      Trump said he wanted to make Canada a US state, and he told Canadians they wouldn’t have to suffer tariffs if they were a state.

      So… Can you guess?

    • kbal
      1•1 month ago

      I don’t know if it will lower the price of eggs, but it might shut down the auto industry, leave some border cities in ruins, result in shortages of many important industrial inputs and surpluses of others on both sides of the border, tank the Canadian dollar, cause a sudden jump in consumer prices, wreck the American economy, and consequently crash the world economy, leading to a dramatic realignment of world power and the start of some kind of new era the shape of which we can only guess at.

      You know, unless they suddenly call it off next week which is also a possibility.

  • Jake FarmEnglish
    1•1 month ago

    He wants to isolate the US and drag it into decline.