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Trump threatens 50 percent tariffs on auto parts in January. I suggest Canada respond immediately.
Trump Repeats Nonsensical Lie
Truth Social: Canada has been ripping off the United States of America for years. Their ridiculously high tariffs on our Farmers and farm products has made life impossible for these great American Patriots, and has long created a 60 Billion Dollar Deficit between our two Countries. Not sustainable, and NOT ANYMORE! On January First, 2027, Tariffs on all Cars, Trucks, both large and small, Automotive Parts, and Steel, will be increased to 50%. Build in the U.S. and there are ZERO TARIFFS. Canada will be treated like a State no longer! On Trade, and in other ways, also, they are among the worst Nations in the World to deal with. They feel entitled, and yet, WE DON’T NEED CANADA, THEY NEED US! They do 95% of their business with the U.S., with us, the exact opposite! Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP
Aug 24, 2026, 7:38 AM
I have refuted that nonsensical lie before and will update the numbers shortly. But over 100% of that trade deficit with Canada is oil.
Canada can give Trump his wish by shutting off all oil and car parts to the US immediately.
Lutnick’s Goal Now Clear
‘WE DON’T NEED CANADA, THEY NEED US!’
CTV News Canada comments ‘WE DON’T NEED CANADA, THEY NEED US!’ Trump threatens 50% tariffs on all cars, trucks. Live updates here.
U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to increase tariffs on all cars and trucks to 50 per cent next year following a collapse in trade talks with Canada.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, meanwhile, is calling on Prime Minister Mark Carney to reconvene Parliament, while a recent report suggests around 87,000 Canadian jobs could be at risk from the ongoing trade war.
Premier Doug Ford had harsh words for U.S. President Donald Trump who vowed on Monday to increase tariffs to 50 per cent on all Canadian cars, trucks, automotive parts, and steel on New Year’s Day.
“He can kiss my ass as far as I’m concerned,” Ford told Newstalk 580 CFRA host Bill Carroll on Monday morning. “We are going to go at him full steam.”
Ford said he is considering putting an export tariff on electricity to make the U.S. “feel the pain.”
He urged all premiers across the province to “start jumping into the fight.”
“I can’t be standing alone on this,” he said.
“Every single province, or majority of them, deliver electricity down to the U.S. Alberta delivers 4.1 million barrels of oil down in the U.S.”
‘We will never be the 51st state’: B.C.’s Eby
B.C. Premier David Eby says Canada needs to “hit back” after U.S. President Donald Trump’s 50 per cent tariffs came into effect.
“We like our American partners and friends, but there is a line. We are a separate country. We have our own vision for the country and for where we’d like to go, and we will never be the 51st state,” he told CNN on Monday.
Eby argued Canada’s trade surplus with the U.S. is largely driven by energy exports and said the tariffs would drive up the cost of goods ranging from building materials to cut flowers and fishing equipment.
“The rest of the world will say enough in terms of hitting your number one customer with a 50 per cent tariff and expecting that we wouldn’t do the same is bizarre. So we will,” he said.
Tariffs are ‘going to hurt,’ Toronto mayor says
Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow says that new tariffs imposed on Canada are “going to hurt” but she says that the city’s economy has been “incredibly resilient” throughout the trade war and she doesn’t expect that to change.
“Trust me we aren’t going to go American if there is a choice,” she said.
‘Hit where it hurts’: Chretien
Former prime minister Jean Chretien says the federal government should impose an export tax on certain goods, as a way of hitting back at the United States for its new slate of tariffs on Canadian imports.
“If we want to stay upright, we have to hit where it hurts,” Chretien told Télé-Quebec in a clip posted online Sunday, before pointing to energy, oil, natural gas, and potash as examples of Canadian goods the U.S. needs.
“That’s where we should tax,” he added. “The advantage of an export tax is it’s not us who pays, it’s the Americans.”
Reconvene Parliament: Poilievre
Just days after Prime Minister Mark Carney recalled Canadian negotiators from Washington and walked away from a trade deal with the U.S., federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling for Carney to reconvene Parliament over the decision.
“We must put the national interest first,” wrote Poilievre in a letter to the prime minister.
Eastern Canadian premiers renew pleas to buy local
Premiers in Eastern Canada are once again calling on residents to buy local as Canada squares off against the United States in an escalating trade war.
“Every dollar spent on an Island or Canadian product supports the worker who made it, the farmer who grew it, the fisher who caught it, the producer who processed it and the business that put it on the shelf,” said Rob Lantz, premier of P.E.I., in a news release Sunday.
The U.S. tariffs have hit businesses and workers in New Brunswick, Premier Susan Holt said in a statement on Saturday. “Now, more than ever, we need to double down on buying local and supporting New Brunswick businesses and workers.”
The tariffs will affect about $7.7 billion of exports from Quebec, said Christine Frechette, the province’s premier. “To buy Quebec products is not an economic action, it is a nationalistic action. It’s an action of solidarity.”
U.S. after ‘fortress North America’
International trade lawyer at Mccarthy Tétrault Ljiljana Stanić says the collapse of the tariff talks with the U.S. was “unexpected”.
“I think most people expected another extension was forthcoming,” she told CTV News Channel on Sunday.
On the issue of U.S. asking Canada to match Washington’s tariffs on other countries Stanić said, “it seemed like the United States was trying to build fortress North America.”
The trade lawyer said she believes “that was a lot to ask from Canada without having free trade with the United States.”
Stanić also noted that “trade disputes are easy to start but difficult to contain,” and added that the situation is now at a tipping point where trade tensions between the two sides can quickly escalate.
Lutnick’s Goal Is Now Clear
Consider this snip from the Wall Street Journal.
If the tariffs are implemented, a 50% levy could drive automakers to close factories in Canada, particularly if the U.S. eliminates tariff rebate programs based on automakers’ use of U.S.-made parts. Auto parts regularly cross the U.S., Mexico and Canada borders multiple times before being put in a vehicle. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, whose agency administers the tariffs, has said he wants to bring many of those supply chains to the U.S.
Fortress America
This morning I asked Did Howard Lutnick Purposely Wreck the Trade Deal with Canada?
Let’s discuss the evidence.
If it was debatable before it isn’t now. Lutnick wants all auto supply chains in the US.
Mccarthy Tétrault Ljiljana Stanić summed it up as “it seemed like the United States was trying to build fortress North America.”
Four Incompatible Ideas
- Create Fortress America
- Reduce Inflation
- Increase Exports
- Increase Tariff Revenue
The economic illiterates in this administration tout all of those ideas but never simultaneously because it’s obviously idiotic.
For example, if you create Fortress America you increase costs, reduce exports, and don’t collect tariffs.
Yet, Lutnick proposes collecting enough tariffs to eliminate income taxes.
How Should Canada Respond?
I explained this before but hopefully now it’s clear.
No matter how stupid the idea (and it is damn stupid) Lutnick and Trump are never going to be happy with any deal. They intend to bring parts manufacturing back to the US.
Those Canadian jobs are at risk because Trump will never be satisfied.
The only response that makes any sense is to give Trump what he wants, immediately.
Canada should halt all parts and oil exports to the US immediately. It should put an export tax on electricity.
Trump is giving Canada until January. But in January, Trump will want more.
Canada’s best option is to smash Trump in the face with an economic brick right now.
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March 12, 2025: Lutnick Says Tariffs Can Eliminate the IRS and Balance the Budget
Lutnick: “We’re going to make the External Revenue Service replace the Internal Revenue Service.”
To balance the budget with tariffs, the administration would need to bring in $7 trillion. To replace individual and corporate income taxes, tariffs would need to bring in $3.1 trillion.
Team Trump proposes $918 billion in “reciprocal tariffs” to make the trade deficit go away.
But to balance the budget and eliminate personal income taxes, Trump would need to collect $7 trillion in tariffs on a net trade deficit of $918 billion.
I would love to hear a detailed explanation of exactly how that works.
August 22, 2026: Hypocrite Trump Eliminates Beef Tariffs But Only Through the Election
The price of beef is getting to Trump (and everyone else). But ranchers are very upset by the move.
Fact Check on Trump’s Claim “Canada Ripped Us Off”
In February, I did a Fact Check on Trump’s Claim “Canada Ripped Us Off”. What’s the Real Story?
For 2025, the total balance with Canada was -53 billion. But the oil balance was -84 billion. Excluding oil, the US has a goods trade surplus with Canada of 31 billion.
Q: Why exclude oil?
A: Because the US needs Canadian oil and gets it at bargain prices too!Energy Synopsis
- The US gets Canadian oil at a 15 percent discount, and it’s oil that our refineries are built to handle.
- The US exports West Texas Intermediate, a higher grade of oil, at a higher price.
- Excluding oil, the US has a trade surplus with Canada for 18 years.
Q: What About Services?
A:The US runs a constant services trade surplus with most of the world.
I will update the Canada trade numbers shortly.