Probably only Trump himself knows what the goal is here.
Publicly, the president has said he wants to punish Canada for a supposedly lax approach to drugs and migrants, even though data shows a border crackdown is already producing results and the flow of fentanyl south is limited.
On Monday, he said:
“Very importantly, tomorrow, tariffs, 25 per cent on Canada and 25 per cent on Mexico, and that will start. So, they’re gonna have to have a tariff,” Trump said.
Asked if there’s anything Canada can do to try to hold off the tariffs, Trump said: “No room left for Mexico or Canada.”
