CTV News’ chief political correspondent Vassy Kapelos says Canada was notified this morning by the U.S. that China, Mexico and Canada will be subject to tariffs: 25 per cent across the board with the exception of energy, which will be 10 per cent.

It would take effect on Tuesday and would be in place until the fentanyl overdose issue is sorted.

Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs Dominic LeBlanc and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will announce a Canadian response at 6 p.m. ET tonight.

A senior government source tells CTV News that Ottawa is expecting something formal at 2 p.m. EST. Cabinet is set to meet at 3 p.m. EST.

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    until the fentanyl uverdose issue is sorted

    Ah yes, make our international relationship dependent on some nebulous, unachievable standard that you just pulled out of your ass. Make us think we’ve been the shitty trade partner and give us the cold shoulder until we prove how much we really want this.

    Trump is coming up with excuses after the fact and trying to blame us for his own toxic behaviour. Textbook abuser nonsense.

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    It would take effect on Tuesday and would be in place until the fentanyl overdose issue is sorted.

    Any retaliatory tariffs by Canada should be in place until the guns coming from the US issue is sorted.

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      Look at thumbnail he doesn’t glance at the shit he signs. Money on him not being in control. He got dementia and they are just promoting him up. I mean man doesn’t read to begin with.

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        The fentanyl thing is the manufactured crisis he needs to circumvent CUSMA without congressional approval. What’s really in his heart I couldn’t say, but we could end the cross border drug trade entirely and it wouldn’t change anything.

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          I suspect he wants a renegotiation of “the best trade deal ever”. If I’m not mistaken, the earliest he can pull out is when they meet in July ‘26 with a 6 month notice. This coincides with Midterms where tariffs could have electoral consequences.

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      No. Please tend do your own bitterly divided house first.

      We’re not here to do your dirty work, we just help you in your time of need, like letting you land your planes in our country and housing your travellers when terrorists blow up your building and cause your airspace to be shut down.

      You know. The kind of actions that earn you tariffs.

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        Some of us tried. I just hope that when it does crash, It doesn’t take the Great White North with it. I am on the west coast, maybe we can join Canada while the fascist idiots aren’t looking.

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      You guys will need to clean the orange shit stain from it before I’ll touch it with a 1000km pole. That’s toxic fascist shit.

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        I would like to apologize to my Canadian friends, some of us are trying to stop this. I hope you guys can get through this okay. The America I grew up in seems to have spun so wildly off the rails, that I now consider us a wrecking ball to the rest of the free world.

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          You kind of have been for quite a while, this is just the first time the damage has been big and close enough for the rubble to fall back on yourselves.

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    I’d sure love to see how this will improve the cost of living in the US…

    Who am I kidding? It’s not like Trump has a track record of lying and taking people what they want to hear to get them to support him, then immediately stab them in the back.

    What we should do imho, as a country, is launch a massive marketing campaign on all major networks in the US and tell people that the financial pain they’re now feeling is all the fault of DC and get them to pursue their representatives to get Trump to undo this madness. It’ll prove far more effective than retaliatory tariffs, because most folks in the US simply aren’t aware of what the government is doing.

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      list all the every day things the US imports from canada and mexico, or better yet… say if it doesn’t have an made in the US sticker it probably came from canada, mexico, or china

      follow up with the fact that trump has added tariffs which directly increase those prices by up to 25%

      so if you notice prices going up, you know who’s pocketing your money