🇨🇦 Ottawa picked a trade fight it cannot win

Canada slapped on retaliatory tariffs Tuesday and by Tuesday night Trump answered with five proclamations banning Canadian alcohol, motorcycles, whey and molasses from the U.S. market, while hammering other goods with 50 per cent tariffs starting next week, as reported. That is what happens when a dependency economy run by Ottawa lawyers mistakes press releases for leverage. Dominic LeBlanc calls the response unjustified, which is rich coming from a government that proudly escalates first and then acts shocked when the bigger country escalates harder.

The real indictment is structural. After years of Trudeau-Carney managerial genius, Canada is so hollowed out that a provincial booze-store stunt becomes national trade strategy. Trump is openly using state power to defend American production and procurement, while our class of globalist sermonizers still pretends rules-based vibes will save us. Sovereignty is not DEI messaging and smug moral posturing. If your economy depends on Washington's mood, your leadership failed long before the tariff war began.

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