A commercial war pending, but Trump’s motives and reform are still unconfirmed

When I returned to Windsor, Ontario, on the day President Trump had already been appointed to impose a potentially devastating tariff on Canada exports, fear was the mood of the city. A week later, after Mr. Trump A 25 percent tariff suspension In most exports and 10 percent on oil, mood turned more towards anger and the nation’s concentration moved towards alternatives to the United States.

Whether Mr. Trump will impose definitions in early March, it is still unknown. But I and Matina Stevis-Gridnef found that whatever happened, relations between Canada and the United States have witnessed a deep shift.

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If the customs duties enter into force, Windsor will be severely hit. Nearly 60 years have passed since Canada and the United States began integrating its auto industries through a commercial deal known as the auto agreement. Then the Free Trade Agreement in North America brought Mexico to this mix.

While the President has repeatedly claimed that the United States is facing an emergency due to large quantities of fentanel that comes across its borders with Canada, my colleague VJOSA ISAI has documented how there is a big exaggerated problem.

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Anna Swanson, who covers international trade in the Washington office, wrote that President Trump, “one of the economic numbers represents everything wrong in the global economy: the trade deficit of America.” (The trade deficit of the United States with Canada is the product of its oil imports.)

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“The master. Peter Baker, chief White House correspondent in the Times, wrote that Trump showed a willingness to use American power in a way that most of his modern predecessors did not do.” The favorite fabric him is not a military power but economic coercion. “

There was no ambiguity in Canada when it came to the proposed acquisition of Mr. Trump. Politicians reject it through the political spectrum, and has revived a feeling of patriotism among the Canadians.

This is a blatant contradiction with a previous point in history. When what would be part of Canada, the British North America is still, in 1846, the definitions were threatened to destabilize the economy, pushing economic anxiety and anxiety.

As part of the movement towards free trade, Britain has ended a system that gave a preference for grain, wood and wheat exports from Canada and other colonies while Maintaining shipments from the United States And other places with a high tariff.

It was bad news for Canadian farmers and soon began to panic among the members of the Montreal elite when that city was the financial and commercial center of the colony. Within three years, they formed a group that published data that urges the inclusion of the United States and lower by the United States.

The removal of the British definitions “produced the most catastrophic effects on Canada.” Statement 1849 He announced before the conclusion that joining the United States was “inevitable” and that it was “the duty to save” to promote.

More than 300 people signed it. While the majority were members of the English-speaking business in Montreal-including the names that are still reflected in companies today, such as Molson and Redpath-also formed an extraordinary alliance with French-speaking nationalists during the era of Luis Joseph Babino.

The movement failed to gain traction in Toronto and the rest of Canada. A Trade agreement with the United States in 1854 The definitions were ranked 21 percent with the arrival of the customs duties of many major Canadian exports to the United States to get rid of the annexation movement.

“The reciprocity deal puts a nail at the end of this argument – you can stay inside the empire and trade with the United States,” Jeffrey Mccanin, a history professor at Queen at Kingston, Ontario. “It was a moment of tremendous uncertainty and meeting political and economic factors and people looking for a solution.”

• Arsons, shooting and sabotage, VJOSA ISAI reports, are all part of continuing A battle on the lobster In Nova Scotia, which raises thorny questions about the rights of indigenous population, economic equity and resource preservation.

• The search in Ontario’s health records led Dependence on marijuana “is a threat to public health Just like alcohol “and that the patients who developed were likely to die 10 times due to suicide, such as those in the general population, as well as more than likely to die of shock, drug poisoning and lung cancer.

• The Canadian “Pirates” stole the self -designer Tens of millions of dollars in the encrypted currencyProsecutors say in Brooklyn. The 22 -year -old remains a student.

• In the New York Times, Merrill Silkov, writer and cultural critic based in Montreal, wrote that he is like many other women’s women who now have.More and better sex What I thought was possible. “

• In real estate, you look forward to the advantage of what you get to $ 300,000 Characteristics on Prince Edward Island.

Ian Austin Reports on Canada at the Times based in Ottawa. Originally from Windsor, Ontario, it covers politics, culture and the people of Canada and informed in the country two decades ago. It can be reached in [email protected]. More about Ian Austin

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