Donald Trump has levelled his most severe threat against Canada in years, warning that on his very first day on office he might impose punishing economic sanctions across North America.
The U.S. president-elect threatened Monday evening to slap a 25 per cent import tariff on all products entering the country from Canada and Mexico on Jan. 20, 2025, his inauguration day.
He delivered the warning via his social media platform Truth Social, in a post that began with a complaint about migration and drugs spilling across both the northern and southern border into the U.S. Then he foreshadowed a damaging import fee that would drive up costs for Canadian and Mexican exporters, making their products less attractive while also potentially raising costs for American consumers.
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy took to the pages of the Wall Street Journal last Wednesday to outline what they styled “The DOGE Plan to Reform Government.” DOGE is, of course, an acronym for the prospective Department of Government Efficiency whose mission will be to reduce the size of the administrative state and strip its unelected bureaucrats of the enormous power they unlawfully wield over the American people. Musk and Ramaswamy explain that President-elect Trump has asked them to take on this task and 
