Canada–U.S. Trade Relations

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said U.S. tariff shifts have turned Canada's economic ties with the United States into a weakness. He made the remarks in a 10-minute national video address released Sunday from Vancouver, British Columbia. The prime minister warned that U.S. tariffs have been raised to levels "last seen during the Great Depression," and he tied that shift to job pressures on auto and steel workers. He said businesses were delaying investments because of "the pall of uncertainty," and he rejected waiting for U.S. policy to reverse with the line, "Hope isn't a plan and nostalgia is not a strategy." He outlined goals to attract new investment, double clean energy capacity, cut internal barriers to trade, boost defense spending, cut taxes and make housing more affordable.