“Canada – USA Tariff Wars”

Prime Minister Mark Carney said he stands ready to resume trade negotiations with the U.S. and tried to reassure Canadians that he is taking steps to shore up the country’s economy after U.S.

President Donald Trump threatened to hike tariffs by another 10 per cent.

Mr. Trump said this weekend he’s hiking tariffs on Canadian imports after an Ontario government TV ad critical of his protectionist levies ran during the first game of the World Series.

Let us win the tug of war for auto jobs. pic.twitter.com/EjJccajmiT

— Pierre Poilievre (@PierrePoilievre) October 25, 2025

History shows that “Favourable Trade Deals” are by design consistently selective of those they favour.

While U.S. President Donald Trump has singled out the Ontario government’s TV commercial as a reason to cancel trade talks with Canada, a senior White House official says it’s because there’s been growing frustration with Ottawa.

U.S. National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett spoke to reporters on Oct. 24 following Trump’s decision to terminate trade talks with Canada the previous day, saying that Canadians have been “very difficult to negotiate with.”

Don’t forget to thank Trudeau and Freeland too for the state of Trump trade talks. They really got under negotiators’ skin

Q “Quickly, what has been so challenging about dealing with Canada in trade negotiations?”

“I guess the lack of flexibility. And, you know, also I would… https://t.co/nvCpRPmLtW pic.twitter.com/e1JCNAGiBt

— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) October 24, 2025

In the face of economic uncertainty, Canada and Canadian premiers need to focus on what they control. Since U.S. Donald Trump’s 51st State tweets back in February, Prime Minister Carney and the premiers have done their best to chest thump and keep their “elbows up” to show Canadians that we got this. Well, we don’t got this and we have so far done nothing. At best, things are no better, and they might be getting worse.

Donald Trump says the U.S. will levy an additional 10 per cent tariff on Canadian imports in retaliation for an anti-tariff TV ad by the Ontario government featuring the words and voice of former U.S. president Ronald Reagan.

The U.S. president made the announcement in a post on Truth Social. The tariff will be “over and above what they are paying now,” Trump stated Saturday.

Jeep manufacturer Stellantis announced on October 14 that it is moving production to Illinois from its Brampton, Ontario, plant, leaving 3,000 workers wondering where dinner is coming from. Blond bombshell Federal Industry Minister Mélanie Joly has threatened to sue the company, which no doubt has company execs driving off the road and hiding in the bush. Not to be outdone, GM is moving its Ingersoll plant to the U.S., leaving 1,200 workers unemployed. As Spencer Gatten reports, altogether something in the vicinity of 6,000 jobs have been lost in the last week, not counting the indirect and ancillary jobs that will also disappear.

h/t PA Cat

It’s been a strange fall in two of New York State’s westernmost counties, Niagara and Erie, on the Canadian border.

Far fewer Canadians are crossing into New York to enjoy the changing foliage and the region’s plentiful vineyards and orchards.

This is not entirely unexpected: Canadians have been scarce at cultural attractions, sporting events and shopping malls in the area since President Trump threatened Canada with tariffs two weeks into his second administration (following through on those threats March 4), and spoke of adding the country as the 51st state.

President Trump said on Saturday that he would increase tariffs on Canadian goods by 10 percent to punish America’s second-largest trading partner over an ad, paid for by the province of Ontario, that used original audio of Ronald Reagan denouncing tariffs.

Mr. Trump, who suspended monthslong talks with Canada over reducing the tariffs on Thursday night because of the ad, has insisted the ad is “fraudulent” after the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute said it had made “selective” use of the five-minute 1987 original Reagan address.

I’m too old to learn Mandarin.

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NYPost – Trump announces 10% tariff hike on Canada as fury over ‘hostile act’ Reagan ad reaches boiling point

CBC – Trump says he’s hiking ‘tariff on Canada’ by 10% ‘over and above’ what it pays now

CTV – Trump announces additional 10-per-cent tariff on Canada over Ontario ad

GLOBE – Trump announces 10% increase in tariffs on Canada for not pulling down Ontario ad sooner

NatPo Bloomberg – Trump says he’ll raise U.S. tariffs on Canada by 10% after Reagan ad

(Bloomberg) — Donald Trump lodged fresh complaints over Canada’s handling of an anti-tariff commercial and said he was “satisfied” with his current trade arrangement with the country, indicating that the Ontario government’s announcement it would stop running the advertisement had done little to placate the US president.

“I’m satisfied with the deal we have. We have a deal right now that’s very good for us. Any deal that would have been made would have been better for them than the one they have right now,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One when asked what Ottawa could do to get talks back on track.

BREAKING: CBC admits the truth on Donald Trump terminating trade talks with Canada.

“We made so much progress… and now it’s all gone.”

Behind the scenes, things are FAR worse than anyone’s saying.

It’s going to be a LONG, DARK WINTER in Canada. pic.twitter.com/02BZISkYWD

— Marc Nixon (@MarcNixon24) October 24, 2025

Prime Minister Mark Carney is pitching Canada as a reliable partner for Southeast Asia, one that’s committed to rules-based trade at a time when U.S. President Donald Trump is rewriting global trade norms.

He’s heading to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit, known as ASEAN, seeking to drum up investment into Canada that will help achieve the nation-building plans that formed a central plank of the Liberals’ election platform.

Ottawa’s move to impose tariffs on some vehicles imported by General Motors and Stellantis will harm Canada’s manufacturing sector and drive off investments, the Detroit Three automakers say.

The government of Canada on Thursday said it will reduce the number of vehicles the carmakers can import tariff-free, in response to production shifts by the two automakers that could cost thousands of jobs in Ontario. Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne said on social media the tariffs are a “clear consequence” of the “deeply disappointing” shifts by Stellantis and GM.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford and California Gov. Gavin Newsom are holding a “friendly wager” on the World Series and taking some digs at U.S. President Donald Trump.
“If the Blue Jays win, I’ll send you some of Ontario’s famous maple syrup, in a proper tin can,” Ford said over upbeat music in a video cutting between the two leaders. “The tariff might cost me a few extra bucks at the border these days, but it’ll be worth it.”

With the Blue Jays heading to the World Series against the LA Dodgers, @CAgovernor Newsom and I have a friendly wager going. Win or lose, we’re thrilled to celebrate great baseball, good neighbours and a friendship between Ontario and California! pic.twitter.com/88iH7pTifu

— Doug Ford (@fordnation) October 24, 2025

Ford needs an intervention.

Captain Canada is back.

Premier Doug Ford of Ontario, a populist conservative who has earned the moniker for headline-grabbing moves that get under President Trump’s skin, pulled off another dramatic moment with an anti-tariff ad that used 1987 audio of Ronald Reagan decrying tariffs as destructive.

Mr. Trump, in a late-night social media post Thursday, claimed the ad, which was paid for by the province of Ontario and has been broadcast since last week in the United States, was “fraudulent” and announced he was “terminating” trade talks with Canada.

The NYTimes loves Ford

Kevin Hassett: "Trump is frustrated with the behaviour of the Canadians, the demeanour of the Canadians and the position of the Canadians." Great job, Canadians! What an extraordinary, self-sabotaging clown show we’ve managed to stage. pic.twitter.com/UgQEozBWKf

— Rupa Subramanya (@rupasubramanya) October 24, 2025

I remain convinced that the path to a positive resolution with our U.S. partners lies in strong, consistent diplomacy and a commitment to working in good faith toward shared priorities such as North American energy dominance.

To that end, I am pleased to see Ontario’s ad… pic.twitter.com/aGZPBDkD07

— Danielle Smith (@ABDanielleSmith) October 24, 2025

Canadian officials were just starting to get their hopes up.

Negotiators from Ottawa and Washington had spent weeks hashing out a potential deal to reduce punishing 50% tariffs President Trump had imposed on steel and aluminum, and the Canadians were growing optimistic in recent days, according to people familiar with the talks. The discussions were punctuated by an amicable Oval Office meeting earlier this month between Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. Both leaders expressed confidence that they could get the trade relationship back on track.

SDEROT, Israel — U.S. President Donald Trump’s Thursday night social media post in which he called off trade negotiations with Canada was not a bluff. It was also foreseeable.

His dramatic statement was putatively prompted by Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s puerile ad campaign against tariffs. But that was just an easy deflection from the real issue.

President Donald Trump’s vituperative reaction to Ontario’s anti-tariff advertisements — the ones borrowing a 1987 speech by then president Ronald Reagan expounding on the benefits of free trade — are unlikely to leave a mark on Premier Doug Ford, even though they could be blamed for Trump scuppering Canada-U.S. trade talks. (Ontario said Friday it would be pulling the ads soon after Ford spoke with Prime Minister Mark Carney.) Even Ford’s most spittle-flecked detractors, and there is no shortage of those, hate Trump vastly more.