But when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau leaves in a few days, his successor will face the worst relations between the US and Canada from the Great Recession. They are undoubtedly approaching a Nadir that has not seen since the 19th century.
After a week of confusion of the White House, Mr Trump said he had pledged to impose potentially devastating prices of 25 percent to more exports from Canada except oil and gas, which face 10 percent tax.
[Read: Trump Says Canada and Mexico Tariffs Will Go Into Effect Next Week]
If we remember when Mr Trump initially started proposing invoices to Canada and Mexico, which now appears long ago, had two excuses. He insisted that the US was overcome by immigrants and poisoned with fentanyl coming to the border with the country’s two major commercial partners.
Mr Trudeau’s government responded with a package of measures of $ 1.3 billion to boost border. Named a “Fentanyl Czar”, gave the Mounties two helicopters black hawk to fly along the border, gave a large number of officers on a border patrol and bought a variety of surveillance devices, including drones.
Matina Stevis-Gridneff, head of the Canadian office, went to Alberts’ Coutts to see the project in action. What he found is that instead of stopping immigrants coming out of Canada, new patrols take people who leave the US
[Read: Canada Curbed Illegal Migration to the U.S. Now People Are Heading to Canada.]
Mr Trump’s arguments on invoices are sometimes based on the view that the US is, as it puts it, subsidizing Canada. The idea is part of a general argument by the President that trade is used by the rest of the world to “remove” the US and undermine its industries.
In the case of Canada, its subsidy claim appears to be related to the US trade surplus that the surplus is largely the result of oil and gas exports to the US, because Americans receive goods and services from Canada for their money, the trade surplus does not fit it.
My colleagues Ana Swanson, Andrew Duehren and Colby Smith write that “Mr. Budget. “
But in their analysis of Mr Trump’s trade statements, they found that “invoices cannot at the same time achieve all the goals expressed by Mr Trump. In fact, many of his goals contradictory and undermine each other.”
[Read: When It Comes to Tariffs, Trump Can’t Have It All]
Unless a last -minute suspension comes and invoices are valid shortly after midnight on Tuesday, Mr Trudeau made it clear that Canada would react with his own taxes.
But they are not likely to make Mr Trump immediately backtrack, nor will they reverse the closure of plants or the inflation that most experts and many leaders in the industry provide.
One report is that it calls on the government to recall the Canadian citizenship of Elon Musk, the machine gun whose work for Mr Trump makes him, he says: “A member of a foreign government trying to delete Canadian sovereignty.”
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Norimitsu Onishi has written a sensitive and revealing profile of Sandra Demontigny, a 45 -year -old mother of three by Lévis, Quebec, who, after being diagnosed with the beginning of Alzheimer’s, prompted the province to become one of the few parts of the world to choose the years.
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Ian Willms, a Toronto photographer and a regular Times collaborator, has a strong visual story of the safe injection site in the city’s Moss Park. Since 2018, 3,040 over -doses have been reversed, now, a developer plans to build a Condo there. The Ontario government said it would stop opening new secure infusion sites, which means that this site will not allow a new permission to reopen as soon as it is expelled.
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A search for Prairie Green landfill area near Winnipeg has “identified possible human residues”. Matina Stevis-Gridneff and Kim Wheeler say “they could be the ruins of two indigenous women murdered by a serial killer, a possible discovery in a case that has destroyed local communities and brought the issue of violence against native women”.
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In the books, Leah Greenblatt revises two “extremely personal tributes” to Joni Mitchell.
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Drake has canceled four tour dates in Australia and New Zealand because of what his representatives are described as a “planning conflict”.
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Times Insider’s Josh Ocampo talked to me about my job.
Ian Austen References to Canada for the Times and is based in Ottawa. Initially from Windsor, Ontario, it covers the politics, culture and the people of Canada and has reported in the country for two decades. Can be approached at austen@nytimes.com. More about Ian Austen
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