an Abacus poll out Tuesday had more than three-quarters of Canadian respondents claiming they will be doing everything from avoiding cross-border shopping and American vacations to not buying anything marked Made in the U.S.A.
Trudeau has reason to raise a glass himself, now that this rush of pent-up anti-Trump Canadian catharsis has obscured how much he too is to blame for this trade-war disaster
Largely missed in the sudden and furious reaction to Trump’s salty tweets Sunday was a report by CBC’s Rob Russo on The National that night, which clarifies just how wonderfully it appears trade talks were going between Canada and the U.S. That is, until Trudeau held his post-G7 press conference to remind Trump that Canada would “not be pushed around” by any American president and called the president’s treatment of Canada “kind of insulting.”
Kevin Libin: Trudeau stumbled into a trade war. That isn?t all Trump?s fault | Financial Post