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  • Canada has responded to U.S. tariffs with sweeping duties on products including cheese and steel.
  • The Midwest and Great Lakes are among the most exposed regions, led by Ohio ($2.3 billion) and Illinois ($2.1 billion).
  • Several of the most affected states, including Michigan and Wisconsin, are politically important swing states.

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[–] 1 point 4 hours ago (1 child)

No - the goal is to have an enduring and stable trading relationship.

The USA and Canada have an existing trade agreement called CUSMA (aka ACEUM, T-MEC or USMCA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States%E2%80%93Mexico%E2%80%93Canada_Agreement ) which supersedes the earlier NAFTA trade treaty. It was negotiated and signed during the Trump 1.0 administration who at the time said:

https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-united-states-mexico-canada-agreement/

Once approved by Congress, this new deal will be the most modern, up-to-date, and balanced trade agreement in the history of our country, with the most advanced protections for workers ever developed.

Since then during the Trump 2.0 admin the USA has broken this existing treaty and there's been ongoing tariffs and other trade actions (restrictions on alcohol imports from the USA by most Provinces) for over a year. The latest round of USA tariffs on Aug 22 were matched with dollar-for-dollar counter-tariffs from Canada effective Sept 8.

For more details from the Canadian perspective here's PM Carney's speech he gave the day after he suspended the trade talks:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-full-remarks-us-trade-talks-suspended-9.7317033

Over the past year, the U.S. has imposed a series of tariffs that violate its commitments under our agreement with them and Mexico, so-called CUSMA. The United States has continually changed their rationale for these actions, from fentanyl to taxes on U.S. tech giants, to certification of U.S. aircraft, to the sharing of tolls of a bridge that Canada built and paid for, to our dairy policy, to provincial decisions to not sell American alcohol during a trade war, to a television advertisement that quoted Ronald Reagan, to smoke from wildfires while they threatened our communities.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 hours ago

    If they weren't our enemy then we wouldn't have been forced into CanadaUS/NAFTA/CUSMA.

    They've already destroyed our economy with prior deals, it's not going to recover if whatever leader that comes in after Carney creates yet another deal with them.

    Over the past year, the U.S. has imposed a series of tariffs that violate its commitments under our agreement with them and Mexico, so-called CUSMA.

    Canada also violated CUSMA by having trade deals with other countries without US approval.

    Further, of course the US is going to tarriff us. They proved that with NAFTA, that's why we've been trying to get out of it for decades.

    Canada knows that free trade with the US means they tarriff us but we can't tariff them, that's how it's always been.

    I agree, it took way too long for the person who campaigned on getting us away from the US to break off but we had to be militarily ready first.

    The only difference with Trump is that he acts like he isn't already president of Canada like his predecessors but he's not somehow more hostile than them.

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