Trump isdoneletting them get away with it.
Last week, the U.S.offered Canada the most preferential market access of any country on Earth, with deep cuts on steel, aluminum, autos, lumber, and more.
Instead of partnership, Canada chose unreasonable demands, walk-backs, and flat-out rejection.
FACT: Canada is joined only by the People’s Republic of China in choosing retaliation over negotiation.
Their continued discriminatory treatment of U.S. commerce has burdened American workers, farmers, and businesses.
FACT: Canada aloneimposeddiscriminatory 25% tariffs and company-specific quotas on U.S. motor vehicles — measures applied to no other country.As a result, U.S. vehicle exports to Canadacrashed22% over the last year.
FACT: CanadabannedAmerican wine, beer, and spirits in nearly every province and territory — while other countries have faced no such restrictions.As a result, U.S. alcohol exports to Canadacollapsed81% in a single year.
FACT: Canada locks out U.S. dairy withtariff-rate quotasfar morerestrictivethan thosegivento Europe, plusover-quota tariffsof nearly 300%— rates so extreme they function as anear-total banand rank among thehighestagricultural tariffs in the developed world.
FACT: Canada has extracted a persistent average annual goodstrade deficitof roughly $50 billion from the U.S. over the last decade — while refusing reciprocal access.
FACT: CanadatargetedAmerican aerospace manufacturer Gulfstream for years.
They effectively prohibited the sale of its G500, G600, G700, and G800 models while shielding its own competitor —until President Trumpintervened.
FACT: Canada’s protectionist barriers —discriminatory auto quotas, alcohol bans, anddairy lockouts— havehammered American companies.
This has cost U.S. producersbillions in lost sales, forced layoffs, anddriven market shareto foreign competitors who face none of the same restrictions.
FACT: Without the United States, Canada could not survive.
Canada sends roughlythree-quartersof all its goods exports to America — and the U.S. market is where Canada gets the overwhelming majority of its money and economic oxygen.
FACT: Canada’s failed trade policies are driving its own manufacturers south.
Arecent surveyfound 42% of Canadian manufacturers have already moved or are planning to move production to the U.S.
FACT: Canada is doubling down on tariffs targeting American workers.
Canada justannouncedan additional $27.6 billion in tariffs on American businesses — including a 50% tariff on American steel and aluminum, a 25% tariff on American fish, and a 25% tariff on American tools.
FACT: The U.S. economy is approximately13 times largerthan the Canadian economy andhometo overeight timesas many people.The United States has the clear leverage.
President Trumpsaid it best: “Canada is easily the most difficult and unreasonable.
They feel entitled, but they are not a State, and will be entitled no longer”Canadian leadership chose retaliation over partnership — and America is no longer willing to carry them.