Canada is not done taunting Trump over his tariffs
President Donald Trump may not like what Canadian leaders have to say about tariffs, but that doesn’t mean they’ll stop saying it.
After Ontario Premier Doug Ford introduced himself a short-term advertising campaign Using former President Ronald Reagan’s criticism of tariffs and trade wars, Trump cut off talks with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, despite the video coming from Ford, who is the Canadian equivalent of a U.S. governor.
In response to this announcement, Trump promised to impose additional tariffs of 10% on Canadian imports.
“I don’t want to meet [Carney]”, Trump said Monday aboard Air Force One. “No, I’m not going to meet with them for a while. I’m very happy with the deal we currently have with Canada. We’re going to let it pass.”
This is where it gets funny.
Ford I agreed to remove the ad– but not before appearing in the first two games of the World Series between the Toronto Blue Jays and Los Angeles Dodgers.
“You know why President Trump is so upset right now? It’s because it was effective,” Ford said. said Monday. “It worked. It woke up the whole country.”
And while Ford’s ads will no longer air, another Canadian prime minister has entered the chat.
David Eby, from British Columbia, committed to broadcasting its own advertisements denouncing Trump’s destructive tariffs.
“Americans need to hear how tariffs are raising prices. We’re running ads to defend forestry workers in British Columbia and Canada,” Eby written the this last Friday. “Our lumber faces higher U.S. tariffs than Russia. Absurd.”
The thing is, Eby isn’t the only one talking about the negative impact of Trump’s lumber tariffs.
Besides the fact that Trump’s plan appears to include plowing America’s national forests To compensate for the reduction in imports, it only hurts the residential construction sector.
Even the far-right Heritage Foundation cannot stand with Trump on this. On the Heritage Blog, Anthony B. Kim and Patrick Tyrrell said Trump’s tariffs ” were causing “suppressed activity in the U.S. homebuilding industry, fewer construction jobs, and fewer options for home buyers.”
“What is unclear, however, is why the government should require that American consumers and homebuilders bear the burden of supporting American producers who cannot compete,” they write.
Trump seems to be losing favor no matter where he turns, and this dissent coming from Canada probably won’t earn him much pity. After all, Trump is the same guy who posts AI-generated videos of himself throw poop on American citizens.
