Canada

President Trump announced sweeping tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum on Monday, re-upping a policy from his first term that pleased domestic metal makers, but hurt other American industries and ignited trade wars with allies on multiple fronts.

The president signed two official proclamations Monday evening that would impose a 25 percent tariff on steel and aluminum from all countries globally. A White House official said in a call with reporters that there would be no exclusions offered, and that the president was directing customs officials to dramatically increase their oversight over such imports.

The measures will be welcomed by domestic steelmakers, who argue they are struggling to compete against cheap foreign metals. As they did during Mr. Trump’s first term, U.S. metal makers have been lobbying the administration for protection, and Trump officials agree that a strong domestic metal sector is essential for U.S. national security.

OTTAWA — The deal that was supposed to delay a Canada-U.S. trade war appeared to be cracking on Monday, as officials watched to see whether President Donald Trump would be making good on his threat of imposing 25 per cent tariffs on steel and aluminum imports.

While aboard Air Force One on his way to Sunday’s Super Bowl, Trump announced he would be unveiling the trade levies Monday and they would include steel and aluminum imports coming from Canada and Mexico.

Charlie Angus was driving down Northern Ontario’s Highway 11 and his signal kept dropping. But he was still on a roll.

The New Democratic MP was on CNN the night before comparing U.S. President Donald Trump to “Al Capone in his syphilitic period.” He’d been on social media urging Canadians to boycott U.S. products. The response was emphatic.

I will not buy in to a Liberal-Left pseudo-patriotism that is about deflecting from the Trudeau regime’s destruction of Canada.

Although it’s not considered polite to say it, Canada has never really been an independent country. Not quite.

A reading of a new book on Canada’s military history tells us this without meaning to. David Borys’s “Punching Above Our Weight” offers a comprehensive account of Canada’s military entanglements from Confederation to Afghanistan, and beyond.

U.S. President Donald Trump has slapped 25 per cent tariffs on all steel and aluminum — including Canada — according to Reuters.

I can’t help but think this wouldn’t be happening if Trudeau was removed from any responsibility or dealings with the USA and Canada.

Canada’s ambassador to France says he’s against U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to take over Greenland, saying “in order to respect international law, you don’t threaten your neighbours by invasion.”

Stéphane Dion, who is also the special envoy to Europe and the European Union, says threatening a country’s sovereignty is not “normal”. Trump is also continuing to push for Canada to become America’s 51st state.

“You know that according to international law it’s not only to invade a neighbour that’s against international law in the charter of the UN, it is to threaten,” he said. “So we’re against that.”

President Trump on Sunday argued that if Canada were to join the United States, it would be the greatest thing the neighbors to the north could do.

“I love the people of Canada. We have a great relationship, but if they became our 51st state, it would be the greatest thing they could ever do,” Trump told reporters. “And think of how beautiful that country would be without that artificial line running right through it. Somebody drew it many years ago with a ruler, just a line.”

With so many comments now, I think we can all say Trump is serious that he wants Canada to be part of the US.
Why though?
He lays out his thinking here.
Us not acting like a serious country for the last decade has put us in this spot.
Time to grow up!
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— Brian Lilley (@brianlilley) February 10, 2025

The premiers of Ontario and Alberta are urging Ottawa to swiftly appoint a “fentanyl czar,” a key condition of the 30-day tariff reprieve granted by the United States.

“Americans and the Trump administration are saying, secure our border. My question again to Prime Minister Trudeau, where is the fentanyl czar?” Ontario Premier Doug Ford said during a Feb. 8 press conference in Niagara-on-the-Lake.

It has been a full week since U.S. President Donald Trump and the Canadian government reached a border security agreement that included a 30-day window to demonstrate our nation’s commitment to securing our shared border against fentanyl trafficking and illegal migration.

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— Danielle Smith (@ABDanielleSmith) February 9, 2025

President Donald Trump’s national security adviser Mike Waltz told NBC News’ “Meet the Press” on Sunday he doesn’t think the president has “any plans to invade Canada.”

His remarks follow multiple reports that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told a closed-door meeting of business leaders last week that the Trump administration “keep[s] talking about absorbing us and making us the 51st state.”

On Sunday, Waltz added that many Canadians “do not like the last 10 years of liberal, progressive governance in Trudeau.”

For Southwestern Ontario’s auto sector, the reckoning caused by U.S. President Donald Trump’s threatened trade war is as intense as anywhere in Canada.

Hundreds of domestic automotive parts and equipment manufacturers, who supply multinational automakers on both sides of the border, were braced at the start of the week for nearly the entire industry to shut down if Mr. Trump made good on his vow to impose a 25-per-cent tariff on Canadian and Mexican imports.

Not sure Ontario will have much left when Trump is done.