🇨🇦 U.S. hits Canada, 59 other countries with new tariffs just days after 50% levy on Canadian goods announced

Canada being lumped in with China over forced labour is the punchline, and Ottawa still wants Canadians to believe our sovereignty is secure inside these grand rules-based arrangements. According to reported, Trump’s team slapped a new 10 per cent tariff on non-CUSMA-compliant Canadian exports just days after a 50 per cent levy on roughly 5 per cent of Canadian goods. So much for the fantasy that friendly rhetoric, summit selfies, and managed decline buy respect in Washington.

Even the trade experts in the snippet admit the forced-labour rationale looks like a legal costume for raw power politics. That is the real lesson. Countries that hollow out their own leverage, outsource production, and let political managers treat trade as a branding exercise get pushed around. Canada now gets to absorb tariffs while being told this is about morality. Translation: our leaders presided over economic dependence, then acted shocked when dependence became pressure. Sovereignty is not a slogan and market access is not guaranteed by virtue-signalling.

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