The federal government has announced its plan to hit the United States with dollar-for-dollar counter-tariffs affecting hundreds of American products. It comes after U.S. President Donald Trump’s 50 per cent tariffs on roughly $28 billion worth of Canadian goods came into effect over the weekend after trade talks between the U.S. and Canada broke down. Trump has made a number of posts to Truth Social Tuesday, expressing his love for French Canadians while openly considering renaming Lake Ontario to “Lake America.” Follow along for the latest: Which U.S. imports will be tariffed? On Tuesday, government officials told reporters that the list of tariffed items were designed to match the U.S. levies on Canadian products, with “individual product rates based on matching the U.S. rate for the same goods.” For example, tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from the U.S. will now go from 25 to 50 per cent, as will tariffs on furniture and clothing. Other notable items being tariffed at 50 per cent include: The list of products being hit with 25 per cent tariffs include: Spencer Van Dyk Ottawa News Bureau, writer & producer and Stephanie Ha Ottawa News Bureau, manager Read the full article here White House posts ‘Lake America’ LEGO image In a post to social media Tuesday, the official White House page posted an AI image of a LEGO-style map of the United States featuring Lake Ontario renamed “Lake America.” Amid renewed tensions and a worsening trade war between the United States and Canada, U.S. President Donald Trump floated the idea of changing the name of the lake Tuesday morning, saying in a social media post that the U.S. doesn’t “expect to be doing much business with Ontario any longer.” The AI LEGO map does not include Canada, but rather appears to depict it as another body of water. Also featured on the image is the Gulf of America, which was formerly called the Gulf of Mexico, until Trump signed an executive order in January 2025 to have U.S. departments change it. That decision was controversial at the time and received significant pushback. Spencer Van Dyk Ottawa News Bureau, writer & producer ‘United Team Canada’ A statement from Carney, sent from the Prime Minister’s Office on Tuesday, says he spoke with opposition leaders about the federal government’s response to the “unjustified U.S. tariffs, including the new measures to support Canadian workers, families, and businesses.” “The Prime Minister and the leaders discussed the ongoing response and underscored the importance of a united Team Canada approach as Canada works to protect jobs, build the economy, and stand up for Canadian interests,” the statement said. Michael Lee, CTVNews.ca lead morning producer Poilievre, Carney discuss trade dispute After announcing plans to meet with Prime Minister Mark Carney on Tuesday, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said the two spoke by phone about the escalating trade dispute. In a social media post, Poilievre outlined several requests he said he made to Carney, including releasing the text of the rejected trade agreement, recalling Parliament and adopting an emergency economic action plan aimed at protecting jobs and lowering costs for Canadians. “The plan should scrap gas taxes until Canada Day, have zero capital gains tax on reinvesting in Canada, end the industrial carbon tax, green -light the 500 projects waiting for federal permits, and have ZERO sales tax on Canadian-made cars” the post read. Kayla Thompson, CTVNews.ca journalist Canada-U.S. now ‘a zero-sum’ relationship Canada needs to stand up to U.S. President Donald Trump, historian Philip O’Brien says. “The only way to deal with Trump and not to be constantly badgered and constantly bullied is to stand up to him and say ‘No,’” O’Brien, chair of strategic studies at the University of St Andrews, told CTV News. O’Brien said Trump is now operating from a weaker position and warned his approach could hurt Republicans in the upcoming U.S. midterm elections. He said Canadians must also recognize that the U.S. Republican Party has changed and that Trump has reframed the relationship as “a zero-sum,” rather than the mutually beneficial partnership it has historically been. Archie Niari, CTVNews.ca journalist Canada must not show ‘pain points’ Canada’s decision to delay levelling retaliatory tariffs against U.S. goods will give businesses time to adjust their supply chains and avoid shifting the burden onto Canadian consumers, says international trade lawyer Robert Glasgow. “By giving that trackway, you’re actually giving businesses time to reasonably recalibrate their supply chain,” Glasgow, of KPMG Law, said in an interview with CTV News Channel. He said companies may have goods already in transit or orders that are too late to cancel, meaning immediate tariffs by Canada could hurt our buyers more than U.S. suppliers. Glasgow also cautioned against calls to make trade negotiations public, saying doing so could reveal Canada’s “pain points” and give U.S. negotiators a “road map” for where to apply pressure. Archie Niari, CTVNews.ca journalist Fate of Honda plant? A senior Honda executive said the Japanese automaker might not build an eighth assembly plant in North America unless a key trade deal is extended. Honda executive vice-president Noriya Kaihara told reporters at a roundtable in Washington the automaker is close to full production capacity in North America and needs a new factory. However, “if there is no USMCA agreement in the future, we may have to change our direction,” Kaihara said, adding the company will need to make a decision within a year or two and would like the plant to be running by around 2030. Honda indefinitely suspended its Canada EV project, an US$11-billion investment plan to produce EVs and batteries. It also cancelled three planned EVs for the U.S. market. Last year, Honda said it was shifting production of its U.S.-bound five-door Civic hybrid model from Japan to Indiana. Reuters Read the full article here. ‘The stakes are high’: Global trade expert Jeff Mahon, the former deputy director at Global Affairs Canada’s China Division, said while retaliatory tariffs have been unleashed, there’s still about $300-billion worth of goods on each side of the border which could still be taxed. “What that means is, things could spiral out of control. President Trump, as we’ve all seen, can be a loose cannon, so it is quite risky. But at the same time, you do need to stand up to him,” the director of international business and geopolitical advisory at StrategyCorp Inc. told CP24 on Tuesday. In the interim, Mahon said he’s hoping that “cooler heads prevail” as the two countries look to carve out a new deal, but that getting the U.S. back to the negotiating table will be “very difficult.” “But this relationship’s too important. This isn’t a ‘one and done.’ Things are going to continue unfolding. Hopefully, we can get to a better situation soon without too much damage,” he said. “The stakes are high, but let’s not get too carried away.” Phil Tsekouras, CTVNews.ca journalist ‘Idiotic tariffs and wars’ U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, a Democrat from Virginia, responded to Trump’s post about renaming Lake Ontario to “Lake America,” saying on social media that “with American troops being killed and injured overseas, and our families and businesses paying more for everything because of idiotic tariffs and wars, this is what Dear Leader is fixated on!” Kaine served as Hillary Clinton’s vice-presidential running mate during her run for U.S. president in 2016 against Donald Trump. Michael Lee, CTVNews.ca lead morning producer, with files from The Canadian Press Trump shares ‘Lake America’ map After announcing his idea to rename one of the Great Lakes, Trump posted an image to Truth Social of the words “Lake Ontario” crossed out and replaced with an American flag and “Lake America” in gold letters. Michael Lee, CTVNews.ca lead morning producer ‘Most difficult and unreasonable’ In his third Truth Social post Tuesday targeting Canadians, Trump accused Canada of “‘Ripping Off’ the U.S.A. for decades.” “They have been charging our Farmers 400% Tariffs, and more. They have driven many wonderful U.S. companies out of business. For 10 years they wouldn’t certify Gulfstream Jets, until I got involved. They wanted 100% of the market for Gulfstream’s Canadian competitor,” he said. “I deal with many countries, and Canada is easily the most difficult and unreasonable. They feel entitled, but they are not a State, and will be entitled no longer!” Twenty minutes later, Trump made another post on Truth Social, saying, “Over the last 10 years, the United States lost, on average, 60 Billion Dollars a year with Canada. No more!” Michael Lee, CTVNews.ca lead morning producer ‘It got a little personal’: Ford After a series of heated exchanges between Trump and Ontario Premier Doug Ford on Monday, Ford told CNN Tuesday that the temperature needs to come down. “It got a little personal yesterday,” he told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. In his interview on the U.S. network, Ford returned to some familiar talking points, emphasizing the importance of a strong partnership between the two countries. “It’s time to get back to the table and let’s negotiate a fair deal because it is hurting the U.S., it is hurting Canada,” he said. He called Trump’s threats to stop doing business with Ontario “a lot of rhetoric,” noting that the province is America’s third largest trading partner globally. Codi Wilson, CP24.com journalist Minister Champagne on Ford’s brash rhetoric Federal Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne was asked during a press conference on Tuesday whether anyone in the federal government asked Ford to tone down his rhetoric. However, he told reporters that he has learned “not to comment on every remark that is being made on either side of the border.” “My job, our job here this morning is to fight for Canada, is to fight for workers, is to fight for industries, is to bring the support to make sure we give them a bridge when we have more stability in our economy and certainty in specific sectors affected by the U.S. tariffs,” he said. “That is what Canadians are expecting from us.” Chris Fox, CP24.com and CTVNewsToronto.ca managing digital producer Read the full story here ‘Canadian counter-tariffs tend to hit harder’: expert Canadian businesses are gearing up for a tariff storm, with hurt coming from both sides of the border according to one expert. Ryan Mallough, speaking for the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB), told CTV News Channel on Tuesday that Canadian counter-tariffs could hurt businesses more than Trump’s. “That’s going to impact more of our members, we saw that back in 2025, the Canadian counter-tariffs tend to hit harder and those businesses are going to need support as well.” Trump’s tariffs will impact about 40 per cent of CFIB’s exporters, Mallough said, adding that a third of those affected expect revenue losses of 50 per cent or more. It will be hard for Canadian exporters to find new markets to sell to, given Europe and Asia’s geographical distance and Canada’s interprovincial trade barriers, Mallough added. “The geographical limitations and the cost of transport do weigh quite heavily,” he said. Joe Van Wonderen, CTVNews.ca journalist N.B. won’t stop supplying electricity: premier New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt says Canada’s trade war with the U.S. has not reached a point where her province would stop supplying electricity to Maine. Holt said it would be an extremely serious measure to turn off the power to communities who have been friends and neighbours to New Brunswick for generations. That’s as her Ontario counterpart Doug Ford warned he could cut off his province’s power exports to the U.S. entirely in an interview with The Associated Press. The Canadian Press. Read the full story here. MacNaughton warns against ‘rhetorical battle’ A former Canadian ambassador to the United States is warning engaging in “rhetorical battle” with President Trump is not something that’s worthwhile, and is urging politicians to instead focus on reaching out to Americans. In his own experience communicating with Americans, David MacNaughton notes many of them don’t understand the “depth and the breadth” of their relationship with Canada, whether it be economic or defence. “I think we should be getting out there, whether it be by social media or actually talking on American television and explaining the facts,” he said to host Marcia MacMillan on CTV News Channel. “We’ve got to do a better job of informing them and getting them to put pressure on the president of the United States, not thinking that somehow engaging in verbal warfare is going to make a difference. I mean, there’s that old saying about engaging in a contest with a skunk. I won’t get into the details, but you know what I mean.” For example, Ontario Premier Doug Ford saying he’ll be reaching out to governors and U.S. businesses is the “right answer,” MacNaughton adds. “We’ve just got to tone down the rhetoric and reach out to reasonable Americans who actually benefit substantially from trade with Canada and because of our defence and security relationship, too,” he says. “A lot of them believe exactly what DJT says. And sometimes he gets close to the facts, but not very often.” Samantha Pope, senior producer, CTV’s Power Play with Vassy Kapelos ‘I love French Canadians!’ U.S. President Donald Trump said in a Truth Social post Tuesday morning that he would “never interfere with Canadians speaking French! In fact, I have never even thought of doing such a stupid thing.” “This lie was made up by a weak and ineffective Prime Minister in an attempt to gain political support, which he has totally lost, from the people of Quebec. I love French Canadians!” he added. French was listed as one of the key issues that forced Canada to suspend trade talks. U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, meanwhile, has downplayed the language-centred trade issues as a “funny fake story,” but said the sticking points came down to Canada’s push to get big streamers like Netflix to pay a portion of their profits to Canadian or Quebecois content producers. Michael Lee, CTVNews.ca lead morning producer ‘Lake America’ In a Truth Social post Tuesday morning, Trump said: “The United States is giving serious consideration to changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America in that we don’t expect to doing much business with Ontario any longer.” It comes less than 24 hours after Trump said he plans to increase tariffs to 50 per cent on all Canadian cars, trucks, automotive parts, and steel on New Year’s Day. Confronted with the news during a radio interview on Monday morning, Ontario Premier Doug Ford responded, “He can kiss my ass as far as I’m concerned.” The U.S. president previously renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, a change that is now reflected on Google Maps. Codi Wilson, CP24.com journalist Read the full article here. Poilievre says he’ll speak with Carney At a Tuesday morning news conference in Windsor, Ont., Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said he will urge Prime Minister Mark Carney to put Canada first and release details of the proposed trade deal when the two speak later that day. “Let’s be clear: there are no national secrets in that text. It’s already been shown to the United States administration. The president has seen it. His negotiators have seen it. The United States has seen it. Canadians deserve to see it,” he said. Kayla Thompson, CTVNews.ca journalist Retaliatory tariff details Canada will announce retaliatory tariffs against the U.S. today, multiple sources told CTV News. Prime Minister Mark Carney previously said dollar-for-dollar retaliatory measures will be in place after Labour Day but has not yet released details. On Monday evening, the Department of Finance said four ministers including Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne will announce the measures Tuesday morning at a local business. Among those present will be Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu. One source told CTV News in addition to retaliatory tariffs, the federal government will announce an expansion of Employment Insurance (EI) to help domestic workers impacted by U.S. tariffs. The source also said the premiers are expected to be briefed on a call. With files from CTV News’ Graham Richardson, Stephanie Ha and Abigail Bimman ‘Fall in line’ U.S. President Donald Trump took to Truth Social on Monday with a pointed message to Prime Minister Mark Carney and Ontario Premier Doug Ford: “fall in line” or the consequences from the trade war will be much worse. The post addresses Carney as “Governor,” an ongoing jab the president has used to target Canadian prime ministers, including Justin Trudeau. Trump’s message also states that the U.S. is Canada’s “key to survival” and that the days of “ripping off our Farmers, and other Businesses, are OVER!” Elianna Lev, CTVNews.ca multi-platform writer U.S. warring with likable ‘in-laws’: analyst Eric Ham, CTV News’ Washington-based political analyst, says Trump’s brash rhetoric is not being echoed by U.S. governors and lawmakers in states most likely to be impacted by the trade war. “We heard from the governor of Michigan who said that President Trump igniting this trade war with Canada is like going to war with the in-laws that you actually like,” he told CTV News Channel on Tuesday. Ham added that Maine’s Republican Sen. Susan Collins is imploring the U.S. to get back to the negotiating table. Ham said he doesn’t know how the trade war will end, but notes a lot of it will play out in the courts since 25 U.S. states have already brought a lawsuit against Trump regarding tariffs. Elianna Lev, CTVNews.ca multi-platform writer Full communities at risk, warns steel union Thousands more jobs could be at risk as U.S. President Donald Trump continues to escalate trade pressure on Canada, warns the United Steelworkers union. The Canadian steel industry has already seen roughly 2,000 layoffs since the U.S. imposed a 50 per cent tariff on Canadian steel imports last year, says Meg Gingrich, assistant to the national director at the union, which represents 850,000 members across North America, including 225,000 in Canada. ‘“Our members are often working for industries where the employer is the largest employer in the community. Those are community sustaining jobs,” Gingrich told BNN Bloomberg. “It’s not just our members’ livelihoods at risk. It’s the full communities.” The union is calling for stronger buy Canadian procurement policies, supports aimed at keeping workers employed and measures to protect the domestic industry. Anam Khan, journalist at BNN Bloomberg, Read the full article here Trade war may rattle states with key U.S. Senate races Trump’s trade war threatens Republican efforts to address voters’ economic concerns as control of the U.S. Senate hinges on states along the border. “Imposing new tariffs on Canada is a mistake,” Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, one of Democrats’ top targets this year, said while campaigning Monday. The issue also puts pressure on Republicans in the border states of Michigan, Ohio and Alaska, and in Iowa, whose main trading partner is Canada. “Trump is escalating a trade war with Canada for his own vanity,” Michigan’s Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed said on social media, adding that his Republican opponent, former Rep. Mike Rogers, is a “rubber stamp” for such policies. The Associated Press American business owners react Michael Howard II, owner of a furniture business outside Detroit, Mich. said the tariffs will hamper the “ability for us to put food on the table for our family” and affect “the ability for us to give back to our community.” Howard and his wife started their business a decade ago. They make and sell everything from dining room tables to bookcases. “To say that we don’t need Canada is just disingenuous,” he said. “It’s dishonest. And it’s just absolutely not truthful. We need our neighbour, but also they need us.” The Associated Press ‘Get worse before it gets better’ Canada doesn’t need to get back to the table with the U.S., according to Barry Appleton, an international trade lawyer and interim director of Balsillie Legal Advisory Centre. However, it’s Canadian workers who will pay for it. “They’re the casualties of this trade war for sure,” he told CTV Your Morning on Tuesday. “And it’s going to be worse. And so Canadians, you need to know that this is going to get worse before it gets better.” He added that if we don’t use the current reality to wake up, build resilience and add new capacity, we’re going to be right back at square one with the U.S. Elianna Lev, CTVNews.ca multi-platform writer Canada’s a reliable partner: LeBlanc Speaking to CNN on Monday, Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc said no one should be surprised that Canada is taking the steps it’s currently taking in the trade war with the U.S. “We would expect the Americans, in the face of such an action, to take steps to protect their economy,” he said. “So we’re going to do exactly that.” He added that Canada still believes an economic partnership with the U.S. benefits the competitive advantage of North America. “We think we can be a reliable partner and regret that we couldn’t get to that point of a deal on Friday,” he said. Elianna Lev, CTVNews.ca multi-platform writer Previous day’s updates follow: ‘It was a bad deal’: Carney Speaking to reporters following his announcement in Lévis, Que., on Monday, Carney said in French that the terms presented by the U.S were a “bad deal.” Asked later to respond to comments by U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy that Carney will be forced to return to the negotiating table because the tariffs will be “devastating” to Canada, the prime minister said officials will resume talks when their American counterparts have “the right attitude towards their industries.” “Let’s be clear: there is an existing arrangement between our country that works,” Carney said. “It can be improved. There are ways to improve it, and we will work to improve it in ways that are to the benefit of Canadians, but also to the benefit of Americans and the people of Mexico.” “But an attitude at the negotiation table that Canada is a subsidiary of the United States, that Canadian industry is going to be disadvantaged relative to American industry, that we’re going to set up terms so that over time Canadian industry is going to face constant headwinds, that’s not something we’re going to accept,” he added. Spencer Van Dyk, CTVNews.ca writer and producer Trump to increase auto tariffs to 50% U.S. President Donald Trump is firing back at Canada by announcing he will increase tariffs “on all Cars, Trucks, both large and small, Automotive Parts, and Steel” to 50 per cent on New Year’s Day. “Build in the U.S. and there are ZERO TARIFFS. Canada will be treated like a State no longer! On Trade, and in other ways, also, they are among the worst Nations in the World to deal with,” Trump said in a post on his Truth Social platform Monday. “They feel entitled, and yet, WE DON’T NEED CANADA, THEY NEED US! They do 95% of their business with the U.S., with us, the exact opposite! Thank you for your attention to this matter!” Michael Lee, CTVNews.ca lead morning producer Deal was not ‘in economic interest of Canada’: LeBlanc Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc is standing by Prime Minister Mark Carney’s decision to walk away from U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade offer, telling BNN Bloomberg there was ultimately no “deal or offer that was in the economic interests of Canada.” LeBlanc said a series of developments on Friday led the prime minister to reject the proposal, citing concerns about tariff treatment for Canadian auto parts and vehicles. “Ultimately when some of these things were being retraded or the language didn’t give us a degree of reliability that Canadians expected. We concluded that the deal that we had hoped to get and that we had negotiated in good faith towards achieving simply wasn’t there,” he told BNN Bloomberg on Monday. LeBlanc also said the Americans sought to make last-minute changes to the agreement that would have restricted Canada’s ability to pursue free-trade deals with other countries. “They wanted tariff-free access to the Canadian economy, and they were proposing a series of measures in strategic sectors that ultimately wouldn’t have put us in a commercially viable circumstance, so we didn’t accept it.” Kayla Thompson, CTVNews.ca journalist Doug Ford and Donald Trump exchange war of words Ontario Premier Doug Ford is slamming Donald Trump as a “dictator” and the “king of bankruptcies” after the U.S. president criticized him on social media on Monday afternoon. In a post on Truth Social, Trump referred to Ford by the name as “the less charismatic, intelligent, and overall unimpressive brother of the late, great, Rob Ford” before noting that Canada “couldn’t survive” without the U.S. Ford responded to the remarks at a news conference moments later. “I am not going to take any advice off a guy that is the king of bankruptcies and he is actually tariffing his own people, taxing his own people,” Ford said. “I am going to be reaching out to every single governor, every single senator and when it comes to the (U.S.) midterms I have a message to the Americans: don’t vote in a person that is going to kill your jobs.” Chris Fox, CP24.com and CTVNewsToronto.ca managing digital producer Read the full article here. Ford calls on feds to help province Ontario Premier Doug Ford is calling on the federal government to help the province “withstand the economic pain” that will accompany a renewed trade war with the U.S. through a number of concrete steps. Ford told reporters at a news conference in Hamilton, Ont. on Monday that the federal government should “eliminate federal greenhouse gas emission standards for Canadian-made vehicles and exempt tariff-impacted sectors from federal emissions performance standards.” He said that doing so would save Canadian businesses “hundreds of millions of dollars in compliance costs.” “In response to these tariffs the federal government needs to work with us to take urgent action to strengthen the competitiveness of key Ontario industries,” he said. Chris Fox, CP24.com and CTVNewsToronto.ca managing digital producer ‘He can kiss my ass’: Ford lashes out at Trump over latest tariff threats Premier Doug Ford had harsh words for U.S. President Donald Trump who vowed on Monday to increase tariffs to 50 per cent on all Canadian cars, trucks, automotive parts, and steel on New Year’s Day. “He can kiss my ass as far as I’m concerned,” Ford told Newstalk 580 CFRA host Bill Carroll on Monday morning. “We are going to go at him full steam.” Ford said he is considering putting an export tariff on electricity to make the U.S. “feel the pain.” He urged all premiers across the province to “start jumping into the fight.” “I can’t be standing alone on this,” he said. “Every single province, or majority of them, deliver electricity down to the U.S. Alberta delivers 4.1 million barrels of oil down in the U.S.” Codi Wilson, CP24.com journalist Read the full article here Vance says negotiations are ongoing U.S. Vice President JD Vance said on Monday that negotiations with Canada are ongoing and that the U.S. would press for fairness in trade. “They came in with a bunch of unreasonable last-minute demands,” Vance told an audience in Brewer, Maine. “I think that we should have a deal, but I think that we need to send a message loud and clear to the Prime Minister of Canada: stop taking advantage of the people of Maine. Stop taking advantage of America. It’s over. We expect fairness in our trade policy.” Reuters, Read the full article here Hold out for ‘the best deal’: Holt Speaking to reporters on Monday, New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt also expressed support for Canadian negotiators and said it’s important to hold out for the best deal possible. “New Brunswickers have been clear: we don’t want our province to make concessions or compromise who we are or the value of what we produce in the face of a deal that isn’t fair or in our best interests,” Holt told reporters Monday. “We want the best deal for New Brunswickers,” she also said. “Not just any deal, and certainly not a bad deal.” The premier added it’s impossible to negotiate a “fair deal” when the other side continues to change the terms, and said while New Brunswickers have already shown themselves to be loyal to local and domestic industries, now is the time to “double down.” “Every dollar we spend supporting New Brunswick businesses helps keep someone in our province working, and helps strengthen our economy,” Holt said. Spencer Van Dyk, CTVNews.ca writer and producer ‘Discriminatory tax’: Greer on French language sticking point U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said not only does he “like the Quebecois” and the fact “that they speak French,” he stressed he and his children speak French, with one of them born in Paris. Greer told CNBC Monday morning that language-centred trade issues connected to the breakdown in negotiations were a “funny fake story.” Greer said the sticking points actually came down to Canada’s push to get big streamers like Netflix to pay a certain portion of their profits to Canadian or Quebecois content producers. He called this “a tax, a discriminatory tax on American companies.” The U.S. has consistently taken issue with Canadian legislative efforts requiring streamers to make it easier to find local content in Canada, and to pay a proportion of Canadian revenues back into Canadian content. Greer, however, called Quebecers wanting to prioritize the French language and protecting national identity a “really valuable thing” in keeping with the U.S. administration’s values. Abigail Bimman, CTV National News correspondent Danielle Smith, Doug Ford discuss trade war Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Ontario Premier Doug Ford discussed Canada’s ongoing trade war during a Monday phone call. In a statement sent to CTV News, Smith confirmed the pair chatted on Monday. “As I’ve said in the past, cutting off Alberta energy exports to the U.S. would be extremely harmful to Canadians and is not a viable option.” “Right now, our focus must be on immediate action: supporting affected workers and businesses, dismantling interprovincial trade barriers, strong diplomacy and continuing to grow our export markets.” Smith says she looks forward to “discussing these constructive strategies” with Prime Minister Mark Carney and Canada’s premiers. Melissa Gilligan, CTVNews Calgary journalist Read the full story here ‘We will never be the 51st state’: B.C.’s Eby B.C. Premier David Eby says Canada needs to “hit back” after U.S. President Donald Trump’s 50 per cent tariffs came into effect. “We like our American partners and friends, but there is a line. We are a separate country. We have our own vision for the country and for where we’d like to go, and we will never be the 51st state,” he told CNN on Monday. Eby argued Canada’s trade surplus with the U.S. is largely driven by energy exports and said the tariffs would drive up the cost of goods ranging from building materials to cut flowers and fishing equipment. “The rest of the world will say enough in terms of hitting your number one customer with a 50 per cent tariff and expecting that we wouldn’t do the same is bizarre. So we will,” he said. Kayla Thompson, CTVNews.ca journalist B.C. minister warns of job losses B.C.’s Jobs and Economic Development Minister Brenda Bailey defended the federal government’s decision to walk away from the trade talks last week, saying “stepping away from a bad deal is the right thing to do.” “It’s going to be rough,” Bailey told CTV News on Monday. “And it’s scary for people. We don’t know what comes next with this president. He’s very unpredictable.” Bailey said workers in B.C., Quebec and Ontario will feel the effects of the new tariffs most acutely, with job losses anticipated across multiple sectors. In response, the provincial and federal governments are preparing a package of financial support for businesses, she said, including grants and loans similar to the assistance provided during the COVID-19 pandemic. Todd Coyne, CTVNewsVancouver.ca journalist. Read the full story here Canada to blame: Greer Jamieson Greer says Canada ultimately wanted more than Washington was willing to offer. Greer said Monday during an interview on CNBC that Canada had maintained restrictions on U.S. wine, spirits, dairy and autos, prompting the U.S. to impose targeted tariffs covering about five per cent of Canadian imports. He said there was significant progress in negotiations, with the U.S. offering to halve steel and aluminum tariffs and substantially reduce auto tariffs. He also dismissed concerns about a broader trade war. The Associated Press Mexico’s Sheinbaum seeks U.S. trade deal Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said she expects to reach a trade agreement with the United States, echoing recent comments made by U.S. President Donald Trump. The push for a Mexico-U.S. agreement comes amid escalating trade friction between Washington and Ottawa. The United States on Saturday imposed 50 per cent tariffs on certain Canadian goods after bilateral negotiations collapsed, with both sides accusing the other of derailing the talks. Reuters The trade war ‘makes no sense’ The latest tariff escalation between Canada and the United States is drawing concern in Washington, including among Republicans facing competitive races, according to Larry Haas, a senior White House official under former U.S. president Bill Clinton. Haas told CTV News Channel the economic consequences could extend well beyond the immediate impact of the tariffs. “This can have a real impact on the average American,” he said, warning the dispute could spiral into further retaliatory measures. He said the threatened tariffs, which will not take effect until Jan. 1, appear to be a negotiating tactic, but warned the threat itself is already affecting business decisions. “The mere threat of tariffs will have an economic impact,” Hass said, noting both countries will be affected. “This trade war makes no sense,” the former White House official concluded, urging both sides to return to the negotiating table. Archie Niari, CTVNews.ca journalist Canada must ‘stand up strong’ in tariff fight The latest Canada-U.S. negotiations broke down after the U.S. sought greater influence over Canada’s trade relationships, culture and sovereignty, said Tabatha Bull, a member of the prime minister’s Advisory Council on Canada-U.S. Relations. “The U.S. wanted to have more control over us entering into other trade agreements,” said Bull, who is also president of the Canadian Council for Indigenous Business. She said Canada should continue building relationships with other markets around the world. However, she urged caution as premiers call for stronger retaliation against U.S. tariffs. Bull said Canadians should look into how they can “stand up strong together” and strike back without having “more harm” on the Canadian economy. Archie Niari, CTVNews.ca journalist Trade talks won’t resume ‘anytime soon’: Laing The president and CEO of the Canadian Chamber Commerce says she doesn’t foresee the resumption of trade talks “anytime soon,” and that we need to be “prepared for the long haul.” “We’ll see what happens over the next few months,” Candace Laing, who also sits on the advisory committee on Canada-U.S. economic relations, tells CTV News Channel. “There’s a scenario where perhaps once December, January comes, is that a time where we’ve cooled down and are ready to get back to the table, especially in the context of CUSMA needing our attention?” The federal government, meanwhile, has vowed to impose retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods starting after Labour Day. “It’s my understanding we’re using this time less so to see if there’s a reaction or response from the United States, but more so to make sure those measures are surgical, and surgical to the extent that they would, of course, limit any self harm,” Laing says. She adds her current focus is on helping businesses already hit by tariffs access supports as quicky and efficiently as possible. Samantha Pope, senior producer, CTV’s Power Play with Vassy Kapelos Tariffs ‘chiefly damaging’ to U.S. auto assembly The head of the Automotive Parts Manufacturers’ Association says U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats to raise tariffs on all cars, trucks and automotive parts from Canada to 50 per cent in January will be “chiefly damaging” to the U.S. auto assembly. Flavio Volpe, who serves on the advisory committee on Canada-U.S. economic relations, explains U.S. assembly plants rely heavily on specialized Canadian auto parts delivered on a “just-in-time” basis. “They might have 24 hours worth of parts,” he says. “If you don’t bring the seats in from London, Ont. to your truck plant in Warren, Mich., then you’re not making that truck, and that means every other supplier to that truck line across the U.S. has to put their tools down.” Volpe says if the United States tariffs Canadian auto parts, they’ll have to accept an estimated $30-million bill a day, which the U.S. auto assembly will have to pay. “You can’t go to Walmart to get bumpers and steering wheels for Hondas. You either have a factory that makes them, or you don’t,” he says. “And so that threat actually isn’t real unless what he’s actually threatening is to shut down the U.S. auto sector.” Volpe called for cooler heads to prevail amid the collapse of trade talks with the U.S. Speaking to host Carolyn Jarvis on CTV News Channel, Volpe appears to reference earlier comments from Ontario Premier Doug Ford in which he said Trump can “kiss my ass” and that all options for retaliation should be on the table. “We should not react in the moment and invite people to kiss our rear-ends,” Volpe says. Though Volpe says he’d “rather have a fired-up premier than not,” and notes that he really appreciates Ford’s passion for the industry, he’s urging caution. “We’re dealing with someone who’s very thin-skinned in the White House,” he says. “To get him to de-escalate, it’s probably better to not tangle with him in the mud.” Samantha Pope, senior producer, CTV’s Power Play with Vassy Kapelos We are in ‘chaos zone’ A former federal cabinet minister says the fallout from the failed trade talks between Canada and the U.S. will be difficult for both countries, describing the current condition as a “chaos zone.” James Moore, who was a minister under former prime minister Stephen Harper, argued the U.S. tariff strategy is ultimately damaging to both economies, while accusing U.S. President Donald Trump of “unfairly” targeting Canada. “It’s awful for the United States and Canada,” he said. Moore also warned that domestic political pressures in the U.S. could continue driving the administration’s approach to trade. The former official also noted that Canada’s response has asserted its position but warned the next phase could be increasingly confrontational. Archie Niari, CTVNews.ca journalist Talks breakdown ‘regrettable’ The U.S. imposed trade tariffs on Canada are a “really concerning escalation” from the Trump administration, said John Cuddihy, vice-president of climate and environment at the Canadian Steel Producers Association. He said the breakdown of the talks was “regrettable” but admitted “no deal is better than a bad deal.” He also said the current circumstances present Canada’s steel producers with uncertainty. “We have to work on where we have control (on), what we can do to look at the future and how do we make that better,” he said. “Historically, half of our production has gone to the United States,” he said, however noting that amount has dropped by 60 per cent under the current U.S. tariffs. Cuddihy concluded by saying that the industry has so far been “resilient” against laying off its workforce, but if conditions do not improve, that will become an option. Archie Niari, CTVNews.ca journalist Trade lawyer confident in Canada’s negotiating Trade lawyer Jaques Shore said Canada has to be very careful at this moment in the trade war, when emotions can get in the way. “We obviously have to recognize that we are basically masters of our own home,” he told CTV News Channel on Monday. “We have to be able to feel that in the negotiations we have with another party that we’re being respected on the key issues that are important to us.” He added that while the breakdown in talks is unfortunate, he’s confident Canada is doing the right thing. “What we don’t want to do is put in the emotion that makes it more difficult for us eventually,” Shore said. “And I think we have a chance to get back to the table.” Elianna Lev, CTVNews.ca multi-platform writer ‘First shots fired’ says political commentator Scott Reid, CTV News political commentator, says the quick escalation in the trade war means we’re now seeing the “first shots fired.” He said Trump’s threats on Monday that he’ll increase Canadian auto tariffs to 50 per cent in January comes as no surprise. “He wants to get his midterm elections out of the way, before there might be any pain spread on the American side,” Reid said. He added that the back and forth on who did and said what is exactly what can be expected in the first days of a trade war. “All of it is increasing the level of emotion,” Reid said. “All of it points toward escalation.” Elianna Lev, CTVNews.ca multi-platform writer Border communities brace for fallout Communities on either side of the Canada-U.S. border are bracing for further economic fallout after trade talks collapsed and both countries moved deeper into a tariff fight. Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer says residents in her border state were “uniquely impacted” by the trade dispute, arguing tariffs drive up costs for families and businesses and threaten its auto manufacturers. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says the president was “needlessly picking fights” with U.S. allies. The Canadian Press, Read the full article here ‘Instability hurts workers on both sides’: UNIFOR Unifor, the private-sector union representing thousands of workers in Canada’s manufacturing industries, said Trump’s latest “intimidation tactic” is an attempt to “force Canada into surrendering” the country’s auto industry and “the good jobs that it supports.” “The U.S. administration fails to recognize that our highly integrated auto industry means ongoing instability hurts workers on both sides of the border and makes it increasingly difficult to build cars in North America,” Unifor’s written statement, released Monday, read. “That’s the opposite of what autoworkers need right now. Canadian and American auto workers have suffered the same fate, with plant closures and job losses because of significant non-North American imports. We need to resolve this, together,” the statement continued. Codi Wilson, CP24.com journalist Trade lawyer confident in Canada’s negotiating Trade lawyer Jaques Shore said Canada has to be very careful at this moment in the trade war, when emotions can get in the way. “We obviously have to recognize that we are basically masters of our own home,” he told CTV News Channel on Monday. “We have to be able to feel that in the negotiations we have with another party that we’re being respected on the key issues that are important to us.” He added that while the breakdown in talks is unfortunate, he’s confident Canada is doing the right thing. “What we don’t want to do is put in the emotion that makes it more difficult for us eventually,” Shore said. “And I think we have a chance to get back to the table.” Elianna Lev, CTVNews.ca multi-platform writer Ford: Reagan would be ‘throwing up on’ Trump over trade Doug Ford said Monday in an interview with The Associated Press that the late President Ronald Reagan would be “throwing up on” Trump over his trade policies. He also threatened to cut off electricity and critical minerals to the United States if the Canada-U.S. trade fight worsens. “I’ll cut them off,” Ford said of critical minerals. “You won’t get a grain of sand out of Ontario.” Ford said “everything is on the table” after Prime Minister Mark Carney walked away from trade talks late Friday. Ford enraged Trump by using Reagan’s anti-tariff words in a television ad last year. The Associated Press Tariffs are ‘going to hurt,’ Toronto mayor says Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow says that new tariffs imposed on Canada are “going to hurt” but she says that the city’s economy has been “incredibly resilient” throughout the trade war and she doesn’t expect that to change. “Toronto is incredibly resilient even during this climate of uncertainty. In 2026 we are on track to create 16,000 jobs, new jobs. Whereas in America in a lot of the major cities the unemployment rate is etching up, our unemployment rate I believe is etching down,” she said during an unrelated news conference on Monday. Chow said that she will continue to encourage Torontonians to support local businesses amid the trade war. She said that the municipality will also continue to favour Canadian businesses when it comes to procurement. “Trust me we aren’t going to go American if there is a choice,” she said. Chris Fox, CP24.com and CTVNewsToronto.ca journalist O’Toole cautions against using energy Former Conservative leader Erin O’Toole is cautioning the federal government against using energy as part of Canada’s retaliatory measures against the United States. “I would not use energy because energy is a fundamental aspect to almost civilization,” O’Toole, who sits on the prime minister’s advisory committee on Canada-U.S. economic relations, tells CTV News Channel. “I don’t think we should switch off the lights of our neighbours, even if we’re squabbling with the neighbours.” O’Toole says Canada could look at other areas instead, including reviewing a potential purchase of American F-35 fighter jets, pursuing trade agreements with other countries and possibly revisiting the controversial digital services tax. Asked whether he agrees with Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre that Prime Minister Mark Carney should reconvene Parliament and share more details of the deal, O’Toole says “yes.” “I think that’s a responsible approach for the opposition to take,” he says. “I think now that the government is coming up with a test, a series of responses, I think they should bring that to Parliament and allow the other parties and the country to see the response that’s going to come.” Samantha Pope, senior producer, CTV’s Power Play with Vassy Kapelos Independent businesses face ‘a lot of tough decisions’ Ryan Mallough, vice president of legislative affairs at the Canadian Federation of Independent Business says a third of their members working in exporting, report that half of their revenue could be lost because of the tariffs. He said that for some, the situation is “existential and could mean closure.” “For others, it means we’re talking about staffing levels and investment, hours, product lines, (and) a lot of tough business decisions in the weeks ahead as a result,” Mallough told CTV News Channel on Monday. He added that a broad range of businesses, including importers, are being impacted by the tariffs as well. Elianna Lev, CTVNews.ca multi-platform writer ‘Hit where it hurts’: Chretien Former prime minister Jean Chretien says the federal government should impose an export tax on certain goods, as a way of hitting back at the United States for its new slate of tariffs on Canadian imports. “If we want to stay upright, we have to hit where it hurts,” Chretien told Télé-Quebec in a clip posted online Sunday, before pointing to energy, oil, natural gas, and potash as examples of Canadian goods the U.S. needs. “That’s where we should tax,” he added. “The advantage of an export tax is it’s not us who pays, it’s the Americans.” Spencer Van Dyk, CTVNews.ca writer and producer Greer: Fallout a ‘tempest in a teapot’ U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer is downplaying the impact of the collapse of the trade talks with Canada. “I think this is a little bit of a tempest in a teapot,” Greer told reporters at the White House on Monday morning. “The tariffs went in place over the weekend, which we’ve warned about for a long time. They only cover about 5% of Canadian trade, only .06 percent of U.S. overall consumption.” Greer said he is preparing potential responses for Trump to Canada’s threat to retaliate dollar-for-dollar, but he declined to elaborate on the options. The Associated Press ‘Their word is not their bond:’ policy expert Canada was right to impose counter-tariffs after the U.S. threatened its national sovereignty during trade talks, says a public policy expert. The U.S. crossed the line by introducing issues that were “thrown in at the last minute,” including higher tariffs for trucks and content regulation for streaming devices, Drew Fagan, a professor at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto, told BNN Bloomberg. “That’s extraordinarily sensitive,” he said. With the U.S. breaking its word even after Canada made painful concessions to secure a deal, Fagan says Prime Minister Mark Carney may feel “he has no choice but to introduce counter-tariffs.” “Their word is not their bond,” he added. Fagan said he hopes the dispute freezes at the current level of tariffs and counter-tariffs instead of escalating into a tit-for-tat war because ultimately, both tariffs and counter-tariffs hurt Canada more than they hurt the U.S. “Let’s hope that politically, the Trump administration is hurt by this,” says Fagan. Anam Khan, BNNBloomberg.ca journalist CEO calls tariff-related drop in investments a ‘bad omen’ Tariffs have brought a drop in manufacturing investments, like plants, equipment and technology by about a third, compared to a year ago, Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters president and CEO Dennis Darby told CTV Your Morning. He calls it a “bad omen” for the future, for both Canada and the U.S. “What we’re seeing is not only slowdowns in production and probably even more slowdowns in production, but on top of that, companies aren’t investing for the future,” he said. “So, the two things together really lower the business confidence and that’s why it’s so important that we ultimately get back to the table with the U.S., because this affects the U.S. as well.” Elianna Lev, CTVNews.ca multi-platform writer Reconvene Parliament: Poilievre Just days after Prime Minister Mark Carney recalled Canadian negotiators from Washington and walked away from a trade deal with the U.S., federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling for Carney to reconvene Parliament over the decision. “We must put the national interest first,” wrote Poilievre in a letter to the prime minister. “The failure to secure a durable trade agreement, together with escalating tariffs, now threatens deeper economic pain on top of a decade of rising costs and zero economic growth in the Canadian economy,” the letter said. Jeremie Charron, CTV National News weekend correspondent Loonie down in late-morning trading The loonie fell against the U.S. dollar in late-morning trading as the U.S. imposed 50 per cent tariffs on roughly $28 billion worth of Canadian goods and President Donald Trump threatened even more. The Canadian dollar traded for US72.27 cents compared with US 72.67 cents on Friday. The S&P/TSX composite index was up 39.91 points at 36,660.14. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 79.48 points at 53,356.49. The S&P 500 index was down 31.84 points at 7,642.53, while the Nasdaq composite was down 191.35 points at 25,989.11. The October crude oil contract was down US$2.16 at US$84.90 per barrel, while the December gold contract was up US$51.40 at US$4,732.00 an ounce. The Canadian Press, Read the full article here U.S. anthem ‘booed’ at Vancouver soccer game Soccer fans are again voicing their disappointment over trade relations between the United States and Canada by booing the American national anthem. Jeers echoed through Vancouver’s BC Place ahead of a Major League Soccer game between the Whitecaps and FC Dallas on Saturday as singer Emma Currie launched into the opening notes of “The Star-Spangled Banner.” The song was similarly booed at Stade Saputo before CF Montreal hosted the L.A. Galaxy there earlier in the day. The audible protests came hours after Prime Minister Mark Carney suspended talks with the U.S. and recalled his negotiators back to Ottawa, prompting the Americans to impose 50 per cent tariffs on billions of dollars in Canadian exports. The Canadian Press, Read the full article here Most affected provinces? Roughly 87,000 Canadian jobs could be at risk because of the United States’ new 50 per cent tariffs on Canadian goods, according to an analysis conducted by University of Calgary economics Prof. Trevor Tombe, who spent hours calculating Statistics Canada’s input-output numbers. His analysis estimates that approximately 52,000 jobs are directly at risk, while indirect effects on Canadian suppliers and service providers could put another 35,000 at risk. The hardest-hit provinces for job losses are Ontario (36,100), Quebec (18,300) and B.C. (11,200), while the industries that are set to have the highest number of job losses are machinery, electronics, plastics and rubber. “If we assume that these tariffs remain in place for some time, what it effectively means is that Americans will be purchasing fewer of the tariff items from Canadian producers – and that will mean less output in Canada and therefore less employment in those exporting firms,” said Tombe. Kamil Karamali, CTV National News weekend correspondent ‘In this together’: former Conservative deputy leader A former Conservative cabinet minister says she hopes Prime Minister Mark Carney will brief opposition members on the proposed trade deal and next steps. “Having other folks leak and talk to reporters, it’s not helpful,” Lisa Raitt, who is also a member of the advisory committee on Canada-U.S. economic relations, told CTV News Channel on Sunday. She added that she hopes Carney will set up a briefing in response to the Conservative leader’s request. “It’s openness that’s needed,” she said. “They want to know what’s in the deal that isn’t a deal and they want to know what programs are going to go forward for Canadians who are unfairly impacted by the 50 per cent tariff.” Devika Desai, CTVNews.ca journalist Release U.S. trade offer details: Conservatives Federal conservatives are calling on the government to release the full details of the trade offer from the United States that Canada rejected this week. In a letter to Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc, Canada-U.S. relations critic Shuvaloy Majumdar said while his party supports the government’s decision to reject the deal, Parliament is in the dark on what was on the table. “If there was a draft text of any agreement that both governments have seen, please release it. The U.S. administration has seen it. Your government has seen it. Canadians deserve to see it,” Majumdar wrote. A spokesperson for the Bloc Québécois wouldn’t say whether they support the calls for the government to detail what the Americans were offering. But the party reiterated calls for a meeting between the “recognized” party leaders in the House of Commons to get a briefing on the situation. Green Party Leader Elizabeth May also said the party leaders should be briefed, but stopped short of demanding the trade details be made public. “I think we should have at least a Zoom call or Teams meeting as we used to do under the former prime minister to make sure that we are all updated,” May said. The Canadian Press Call to release trade details, unlikely: political analyst Lori Turnbull, political analyst and professor at Dalhousie University, says while she is not surprised Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s is calling on Carney to release details on the deal, she does not think it’s going to happen. “I don’t think (Carney’s) going to say anything that he doesn’t want to say about this,” she told CTV News Channel on Monday. “I think if he’s been guarded about what the exact terms were, it is for a reason. If he wanted to tell us that, he would have told us Saturday morning when he made that speech,” Turnbull said. She admits there’s a “spectacle aspect to this, a drama, a political piece to it that ultimately may not move the accountability marker all that much.” Elianna Lev, CTVNews.ca multi-platform writer ‘Job loss is inevitable’: B.C. Chamber of Commerce reacts to Trump tariffs The head of the B.C. Chamber of Commerce said job losses are “inevitable” and the future of small and medium businesses is in peril after U.S. President Donald Trump imposed punishing new tariffs on Canadian goods. “I think this is par for the course. We’re back on the merry-go-round. We did the math and counted 15 changes over the last 21 months. So, I think we just continue to live in this world of uncertainty,” Jen Riley, the chamber of commerce’s president and CEO, told CTV News Sunday. In Riley’s estimation, small and medium sized businesses in British Columbia are set to bear a disproportionate burden. “The exports we have to the United States are now going to have a 50 per cent tariff. And a lot of those that are going to get hit are small and medium businesses—and that level of tariffs is generally not something they can absorb,” Riley said. “So, we are very worried here in British Columbia that small and medium businesses are not going to be able to make it out of this.” Lisa Steacy, CTVNewsVancouver.ca journalist Read the full story here. Eastern Canadian premiers renew pleas to buy local Premiers in Eastern Canada are once again calling on residents to buy local as Canada squares off against the United States in an escalating trade war. “Every dollar spent on an Island or Canadian product supports the worker who made it, the farmer who grew it, the fisher who caught it, the producer who processed it and the business that put it on the shelf,” said Rob Lantz, premier of P.E.I., in a news release Sunday. The U.S. tariffs have hit businesses and workers in New Brunswick, Premier Susan Holt said in a statement on Saturday. “Now, more than ever, we need to double down on buying local and supporting New Brunswick businesses and workers.” The tariffs will affect about $7.7 billion of exports from Quebec, said Christine Frechette, the province’s premier. “To buy Quebec products is not an economic action, it is a nationalistic action. It’s an action of solidarity.” The Canadian Press Minnesota school faces $7K spike in price for mascot costume Parents at a Minnesota school say they are rushing to get a Trojan-themed mascot across the Canada-U.S. border by the end of the week to avoid paying a higher price due to the tariffs. Sarah Kallal said she and other community members had been inspired to procure a “professional-grade costume” for the school’s baseball team, in their hometown of Trojan The community had raised $14,000 for the costume. On Monday, Kallal said she got a call from the costume company that they had to pay an extra $7,000. “Honestly, I kind of thought the dream died,” Kallal said. “I’m not going to absorb that cost and I’m certainly not going to go back to our community to say, ‘Oh, by the way, can I get seven more thousand dollars?’” She was floored to learn that President Trump’s proposal to place a 50 per cent tariff on Canadian imports was to blame. She never expected that kind of economic policy to hit home so directly in a smaller community like New Prague.“ It brings awareness to how it’s not going to just affect corporations and government,” Kallal said. WCCO Trade war ‘devastating’ for Canada: Trump admin The Trump administration on Sunday warned that Canada would be “foolish” to think it could win a trade war with the United States. U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy told “Fox News Sunday” talk show that Prime Minister Carney will return to negotiations “very very quickly, because it’s going to be devastating for his country.” “We’re great trading partners, right? But Canada gets the benefit of trading with the U.S. way more than the U.S. gets the benefit of trading with Canada,” he said on the show. “To think that they’re going to go to war with Donald Trump and actually win that war with the U.S., I think it’s foolish on their part.” AFP U.S. customers ‘paying the full brunt’ President and Chief Executive Officer of the Aluminium Association of Canada Jean Simard expressed his concern for the future of the aluminium industry following the collapse of the trade talks between Canada and the United States. To put things into perspective, he said Canada produces 3.3 million tonnes of aluminium per year of which 90 per cent is exported. He added, “90 per cent of the exported product goes to the U.S.” Simard said in the U.S., “customers are paying the full brunt of the tariffs,” paying $1500 to $2000 more per ton than what Europe pays for the same amount. However, he noted not reaching a deal with the U.S. was not “a bad thing” as the talks had increasingly shifted toward a “U.S.-based advantage to the detriment of Canada.” Archie Niari, CTVNews.ca journalist U.S. after ‘fortress North America’ International trade lawyer at Mccarthy Tétrault Ljiljana Stanić says the collapse of the tariff talks with the U.S. was “unexpected”. “I think most people expected another extension was forthcoming,” she told CTV News Channel on Sunday. On the issue of U.S. asking Canada to match Washington’s tariffs on other countries Stanić said, “it seemed like the United States was trying to build fortress North America.” The trade lawyer said she believes “that was a lot to ask from Canada without having free trade with the United States.” Stanić also noted that “trade disputes are easy to start but difficult to contain,” and added that the situation is now at a tipping point where trade tensions between the two sides can quickly escalate. Archie Niari, CTVNews.ca journalist Trump: Canada wants benefits of statehood In his Truth Social Post, Trump also claimed that Canada has charged U.S. farmers “massive amounts of tariffs” for many years. Canada only imposes high tariffs on U.S. dairy exports if they exceed quota amounts. “In reality, however, the countries exporting products to Canada will not pay the high tariff because they will simply not export more than was negotiated in the trade agreement under which they have access,” states the Dairy Farmers of Canada, a national lobby representing Canadian dairy producers. Trump’s comments come after Prime Minister Carney delivered his own address on the trade dispute in which he said Canada is at economic “war” with the U.S. In Carney’s address, he said last-minute changes by the U.S. to the deal lead to a breakdown negotiations. Devika Desai, CTVNews.ca journalist We want to hear from you Are you worried about how tariffs might affect your work? Have trade disruptions already impacted your job? Share your story by emailing us at dotcom@bellmedia.ca with your name, general location and phone number in case we want to follow up. 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