It didn’t take long for U.S. President Donald Trump to let slip that the 25-per-cent tariffs he imposed on Canada to demand action against fentanyl and migrants weren’t really about that.
On Saturday, he signed an executive order stating tariffs were needed to respond to a border emergency. On Sunday, he posted a blast on social media falsely claiming the U.S. is subsidizing Canada by hundreds of billions of dollars and it should become the 51st state.
