{"id":249643,"date":"2025-03-01T16:49:15","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T16:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/01\/canada-u-s-relations-continue-to-reach-lows-over-tariffs-and-annexation-threats\/"},"modified":"2025-03-01T16:49:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T16:49:15","slug":"canada-u-s-relations-continue-to-reach-lows-over-tariffs-and-annexation-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/01\/canada-u-s-relations-continue-to-reach-lows-over-tariffs-and-annexation-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada-U.S. Relations Continue to Reach Lows Over Tariffs and Annexation Threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/03\/01\/multimedia\/01canadaletter-sam-lkgc\/01canadaletter-sam-lkgc-facebookJumbo.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Canada-U.S. Relations Continue to Reach Lows Over Tariffs and Annexation Threats\" title=\"Canada-U.S. Relations Continue to Reach Lows Over Tariffs and Annexation Threats\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau steps down in a few days, his successor will face the worst relations between the U.S. and Canada since the trade war of the Great Depression. Arguably they are nearing a nadir not seen since the 19th century.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">After a week of confusing signals from the White House, Mr. Trump said he was committed to imposing potentially devastating 25 percent tariffs on most exports from Canada except oil and gas, which face a 10 percent tax.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">[Read: <\/em><a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/27\/us\/politics\/trump-tariffs-canada-mexico-china.html\" title=\"\"><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">Trump Says Canada and Mexico Tariffs Will Go Into Effect Next Week<\/em><\/a><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">]<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">If we recall when Mr. Trump first started proposing tariffs on Canada and Mexico, which now seems a very long time ago, he had two justifications. He insisted that the U.S. was being overrun by migrants and poisoned with fentanyl coming across the borders with the country\u2019s two major trading partners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trudeau\u2019s government responded with a 1.3 billion Canadian dollar package of measures to fortify the border. He named a \u201cfentanyl czar,\u201d gave the Mounties two Black Hawk helicopters to fly along the border, assigned a large number of their officers to border patrol and bought a variety of surveillance devices, including drones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Matina Stevis-Gridneff, our Canada bureau chief, went to Coutts, Alberta, to see the project in action. What she found is that instead of stopping migrants coming out of Canada, the new patrols are picking up people fleeing from the U.S.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">[Read: <\/em><a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/01\/world\/canada\/canada-us-border-immigration.html\" title=\"\"><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">Canada Curbed Illegal Migration to the U.S. Now People Are Heading to Canada<\/em><\/a><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">.]<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump\u2019s arguments for tariffs are sometimes based around the view that the U.S. is, as he puts it, subsidizing Canada. The idea is part of a general argument by the president that trade is being used by the rest of the world to \u201crip off\u201d the U.S. and undermine its industries.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In Canada\u2019s case, his subsidy claim appears related to its trade surplus with the U.S. That surplus is largely a result of oil and gas exports to the U.S. Because Americans receive goods and services from Canada for their money, the trade surplus in no way fits the definition of a subsidy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">My colleagues Ana Swanson, Andrew Duehren and Colby Smith write that \u201cMr. Trump maintains that tariffs will impose few, if any, costs on the United States and rake in huge sums of revenue that the government can use to pay for tax cuts and spending and even to balance the federal budget.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But in their analysis of Mr. Trump\u2019s trade pronouncements, they found that \u201ctariffs cannot simultaneously achieve all of the goals that Mr. Trump has expressed. In fact, many of his aims contradict and undermine one another.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">[Read: <\/em><a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/28\/business\/economy\/trump-tariff-goals-contradictions.html\" title=\"\"><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">When It Comes to Tariffs, Trump Can\u2019t Have It All<\/em><\/a><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">]<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">If a last-minute reprieve doesn\u2019t come and tariffs are in effect just after midnight on Tuesday, Mr. Trudeau has made clear that Canada will retaliate with taxes of its own.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But they are not likely to make Mr. Trump immediately backtrack, nor will they reverse the plant closings or inflation that most experts and many industry leaders anticipate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A petition is circulating that calls on the government to revoke the Canadian citizenship of Elon Musk, the multibillionaire whose work for Mr. Trump makes him, it says, \u201ca member of a foreign government that is attempting to erase Canadian sovereignty.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<ul class=\"css-1le37cb ez3869y0\">\n<li class=\"css-1i3ul0c eoqvrfo0\">\n<p class=\"css-1il0jfh evys1bk0\">Norimitsu Onishi has written a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/25\/world\/canada\/sandra-demontigny-assisted-suicide-quebec.html\" title=\"\">sensitive and revealing profile<\/a> of Sandra Demontigny, a 45-year-old mother of three from L\u00e9vis, Quebec, who, after being diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer\u2019s, pushed the province to become one of the few places in the world to allow people to choose a medically assisted death years in advance.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"css-1i3ul0c eoqvrfo0\">\n<p class=\"css-1il0jfh evys1bk0\">Ian Willms, a photographer in Toronto and a regular contributor to The Times, has a powerful visual story of the safe injection site at the city\u2019s Moss Park. Since 2018, it has <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/card\/2025\/02\/24\/headway\/toronto-safe-injection\" title=\"\">reversed 3,040 overdoses<\/a>, Now, a developer is planning to build a condo there. Ontario\u2019s government has said it will stop new safe injection sites from opening, which means this site won\u2019t be allowed a new license to reopen once it\u2019s evicted.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"css-1i3ul0c eoqvrfo0\">\n<p class=\"css-1il0jfh evys1bk0\">A search of the Prairie Green Landfill near Winnipeg has <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/26\/world\/canada\/canada-serial-killer-landfill-search.html\" title=\"\">\u201cidentified potential human remains.\u201d<\/a> Matina Stevis-Gridneff and Kim Wheeler report that they \u201ccould be the remains of two Indigenous women murdered by a serial killer, a possible breakthrough in a case that has devastated local communities and brought to the fore the issue of violence against Indigenous women in Canada.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"css-1i3ul0c eoqvrfo0\">\n<p class=\"css-1il0jfh evys1bk0\">In Books, Leah Greenblatt reviews two <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/28\/books\/review\/joni-mitchell-henry-alford-paul-lisicky-i-dream-of-joni-song-so-wild-and-blue.html\" title=\"\">\u201chighly personal tributes\u201d<\/a> to Joni Mitchell.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"css-1i3ul0c eoqvrfo0\">\n<p class=\"css-1il0jfh evys1bk0\">Drake has canceled four tour dates in Australia and New Zealand because of what his representatives <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/26\/arts\/music\/drake-postpone-australia-new-zealand.html\" title=\"\">described as a \u201cscheduling conflict.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"css-1i3ul0c eoqvrfo0\">\n<p class=\"css-1il0jfh evys1bk0\">Josh Ocampo of Times Insider <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/25\/insider\/canada-reporting.html\" title=\"\">chatted with me about my job<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr class=\"css-7ad88g e1mu4ftr0\"\/>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\"><a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/ian-austen\" title=\"\"><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">Ian Austen<\/em><\/a><\/strong><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\"> reports on Canada for The Times and is based in Ottawa. Originally from Windsor, Ontario, he covers politics, culture and the people of Canada and has reported on the country for two decades. He can be reached at <\/em><a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/01\/world\/canada\/mailto:austen@nytimes.com\" title=\"\"><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">austen@nytimes.com<\/em><\/a><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">.<\/em><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\"><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\"> <\/em><\/strong><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\"><a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/ian-austen\" title=\"\"><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">More about Ian Austen<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-9\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<hr class=\"css-7ad88g e1mu4ftr0\"\/>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">How are we doing?<\/strong><br \/>We\u2019re eager to have your thoughts about this newsletter and events in Canada in general. 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