Loading ...CANADA IS THE PRIME TARGET OF TRUMPS NEW MORE DURABLE AND LEGALLY BINDING TARIFFS
Against all odds, the plan of re-imagining the Western Hemisphere keeps humming down the tracks. The tariff threat is bigger and more conspicuous than ever. We should keep our eyes on the ball— and not on corporate media’s hairy, transgender cheerleaders.
The Supreme Court shot down Trump’s easiest tariff tool late last year, including the 10% tariffs Canada then faced, and progressives celebrated too soon. As I pointed out at the time, SCOTUS ratified other ways of imposing tariffs, which might be slower, but ultimately would be stronger. Well— behold!
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SEE THE COMMENTS SECTION …SCOTUS SLAMED THE DOOR ON THE “EASY” TARIFFS BUT ACTUALLY ENDORSED THE MORE CHALLENGING TARIFF MECHANISM WHICH TEAM TRUMP HAS NOW NAVIGATED AND HAS COME “ON LINE”
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Remember Castro lookalike Justin Trudeau? Me neither. It seems like ages ago that the dapper lockdown queen was swanking around bragging about debanking Canadian truckers. Now the WEF Young Leader, international darling, and Black-Eye Club member (just saying) is busy canoodling with celebrities, his lost political career having settled to the bottom of the global septic tank. Meanwhile, Canada’s problems are only beginning. On Wednesday, the Guardian UK ran an op-ed headlined, “Trump has singled out us Canadians for special treatment in his tariff war – there is no choice but to get nasty.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/29/donald-trump-canada-tariff-war-white-house-mark-carney-us-president
The jokes write themselves. Get nasty? Canadians? Will they subject us to a harsh stare? Annex Vermont? Cut us off from back bacon?
Justin may have ridden off into the political sunset, replaced by bankster Prime Minister Mark Carney, but the tariffs stayed behind to clean up. Canada originally escaped the worst of the Trump Tariffs last year, shielded in large part by the USMCA trade deal. That deal expired, and this month, the US declined to extend it, which means it is now subject to annual renegotiation.
Then, last week, the White House announced tariffs as high as 50% on a selection of Canadian products including, for the first time, items previously protected by the trade agreement. “The tariffs will hit a wide range of products,” the Guardian said, “including wine, hockey sticks and cement.” (Who drinks Canadian wine?) Headline, July 21:
The Supreme Court shot down Trump’s easiest tariff tool late last year, including the 10% tariffs Canada then faced, and progressives celebrated too soon. As I pointed out at the time, SCOTUS ratified other ways of imposing tariffs, which might be slower, but ultimately would be stronger. Well— behold!
Last week, President Trump signed three new tariff declarations against Canada. He imposed the maximum allowable tariff —50%— under the 1930 Smoot-Hawley Act (which, frankly, is fun to say over and over). It’s another first. To do it, the Administration was required to conduct an investigation and publish findings, which took a few months, but is now complete.
The Canadian journalist who published the outraged op-ed conceded that Trump might have a point. “The US has some legitimate gripes with us,” he generously allowed, “including trade barriers and Canada’s chronic underinvestment in defence. It’s reasonable to be angry about those things.”
It hurts— a lot. “An unfriendly, potentially even hostile US is a staggeringly consequential change,” he said. “It’s hard to overestimate how huge a shock this has been.” You’d think it would make bigger news here in the US, but the news cycle is, as they say, a target-rich environment.
If you’re wondering about the odd selection of tariffed products, all I can say is that coincidentally, they hit the three most anti-US provinces hardest. They exclude energy products, fish, and critical minerals— which are most economically important to pro-US provinces. (They were also the strongest anti-mandate provinces during the pandemic.) “The economies of Alberta and Saskatchewan were relatively spared,” the author noted.
Also coincidentally, Alberta is holding an independence referendum later this year. Headline from the Canadian Gauntlet, yesterday:
What can we say about this sudden reinvigoration of Trump’s tariff dashboard? About the fact that the battle with Canada —which critics crowed the Canucks had won— is still indisputably raging, even if it has faded into media’s background noise?
Let’s be honest. We don’t know the plan. (Nor should we.) But we do know that the plan continues. Canada can replace their lockdown-loving WEF Young Leader with a Prime Minister whose main qualification seems to be a bad case of fulminant TDS. SCOTUS can tear the biggest button off the tariff dashboard and make Trump refund hundreds of billions in taxes. They can file lawsuit after lawsuit.
Think of it. One major legal setback would have caused previous Republican administrations to give it up as a lost cause. Not this administration. When the Court slams the door, the Trump Team climbs out the window.
Against all odds, the plan of re-imagining the Western Hemisphere keeps humming down the tracks. The tariff threat is bigger and more conspicuous than ever. We should keep our eyes on the ball— and not on corporate media’s hairy, transgender cheerleaders.