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I will fight like I've never fought before ... We want to work with our American friends and allies, not against them. We said we'd never start a trade and tariff war with the U.S., but you better believe we're ready to win one."
Ford,
The only thing that's certain today is more uncertainty,
Ford wroteIt basically makes it more fair for our car manufacturers, during this short-term period before April 2nd—April 2nd is, uh, a little bit different, that will be much more significant. But during this interim period, between now and April 2nd, this makes it much more favorable for our American car manufacturers."
Trump, explaining the executive order to pause Canadian tariffs in the Oval Office on ThursdayI feel terrible [for moving forward with the tariffs],
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Yet again the president is sowing uncertainty and chaos attempting to undermining our economy by implementing tariffs and then pulling them off,
Eby said
We have a deficit with Mexico of $350 billion.”
He said in a Fox News interview in February
As soon as that Lutnick quote came out we dropped almost a penny,
said Michael Goshko, senior market analyst at Convera Canada ULC
This is a day where the United States stopped seeing trade as force for mutual benefit, and began seeing it as a tool of economic warfare,
said Edward Alden, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations
We are glad to see an American president take aggressive action on ending the free trade disaster that has dropped like a bomb on the working class,
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A fight with Canada will have no winners,
Mr. Trudeau saidThe political ramifications of it were probably as big or bigger than the economic ones,
he addedThere is going to be significant disruption to regional economies,
he saidTrump’s trade war will seriously hamper U.S.-Canada relations and severely upend North America’s highly integrated production and supply network, possibly with lasting impacts on both economies,
he saidWe’re sitting on a lot of a lot of projects that we can’t otherwise do as a result of just the threat of the tariff,
he saidBecause of this work — in partnership with the United States — fentanyl seizures from Canada have dropped 97% between December 2024 and January 2025 to a near-zero low of 0.03 pounds seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection,
Trudeau said
Tariffs are about making America rich again and making America great again. There will be a little disturbance, but we’re OK with that. It won’t be much.”
In a speech Tuesday night to the U.S. Congress, Trump acknowledged the tariff turmoil, sayingI told him that many people have died from Fentanyl that came through the Borders of Canada and Mexico, and nothing has convinced me that it has stopped,
the president wrote
We're not interested in meeting in the middle and having some reduced tariff. Canada wants the tariffs removed,
Canadian Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc told the Canadian Broadcasting CorporationPeople are going to lose their jobs,
he said