Posted on 03/11/2025 10:37:45 AM PDT by Morgana
President Donald Trump declared a national emergency on electricity in the United States and doubled the tariffs on aluminum and steel from Canada after retaliatory tariffs from America's neighbor to the north.
The president, in a lengthy post on his Truth Social account on Tuesday, also threatened to 'permanently shut down' the Canadian auto sector.
The only thing to make his tariffs stop is for Canada to become the 51st state, he noted as he ramps up his trade war.
In response, the stock market dropped over 500 points as nervous investors worry about a potential recession.
The increase in tariffs, from 25% to 50%, will go into affect on Wednesday, Trump said.
'Based on Ontario, Canada, placing a 25% Tariff on 'Electricity' coming into the United States, I have instructed my Secretary of Commerce to add an ADDITIONAL 25% Tariff, to 50%, on all STEEL and ALUMINUM COMING INTO THE UNITED STATES FROM CANADA, ONE OF THE HIGHEST TARIFFING NATIONS ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD,' Trump declared.
'I will shortly be declaring a National Emergency on Electricity within the threatened area,' he added.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford put a 25% tariff on Canadian electricity to Michigan, New York and Minnesota on Monday in response to earlier tariffs from Trump.
Ford, a conservative politician who runs Canada's most populous province, says he's ready to 'shut the electricity off completely' if America continues to 'escalate.'
Trump's fury continued in a second post to his Truth Social account, where he warned Canada will pay a historically big 'financial price' for its electricity tariff. Many states in the Northeast buy supplemental energy from Canada.
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nervous nellies are the only ones tanking the market. no pain,no gain with liberal scare tactics leading them to seek the “status quo” for the now instead of looking to a brighter future.
Stay the course until Canada buckles and we end up fair trade deals and a secure border on Canada’s side.
LOL. Its Canada.
Ford just occupies a chair in the right side of the giant room that is EU-WEF socialist globohomo in Ottawa.
Another outlet of British intelligence IMHO.
The next James Bond should be a writer for the “Daily Mail”
I never knew that New York, Minnesota and Michigan get their electricity from Canada..this is the problem that we are reliant on EVERYONE else for their stuff, this has to end
Trump is right when he posted why should a country buy electricity from another country?
President Trump needs to stick this thru, because in the end we don’t want Canadian electricity anymore. cut all of them off
I get tarriffs.
I don’t get tarriffs if the point is to force Canada to become a part of the USA.
Better that Canada just be more competently run—and remain canadian.
If we take in a bunch of incompetent woke communists—we’re not really serving anybody—especially as that would just tip the scales in the USA toward the woke communists.
We need anti-Trump freepers to replace Trump’s cabinet. They know better. /s
I thought I would come in and file a post before all the wussified, weak-kneed pearl-clutchers enter the thread. Probably in the time it takes me to type this post.
We have a lot of them here on FR.
Good, a declaring a National Emergency is good.
This is your author of this “piece”
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“Emily Godwin has written about the Washington social scene as part of her varied career, which includes tenures at The Hill newspaper, RealClearPolitics, ABC News, and DailyMail.”
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No bias there
All American tariffs against Canada need to end immediately.
All Canadian tariffs against America need to end immediately.
Makes no sense!!The imports from Canada are less than 1% of GDP. You’d think the whole world ends because that 1% will now have a 25% duty on it. 25% of 1% is .25% of the economy is affected. PEOPLE WTH? How could such a small thing tank markets!!!!! The world has gone insane.
How do these idiots at DM get away with publishing this garbage? The tariffs stop when Canada agrees to reciprocal rates at zero - and kicks the CPC agents out of their government.
I would bet $100 that the US States buying electricity from Canada maintain that it lowers their states’ carbon footprint.
America’s hat is getting upirrt, and we are about to knock it off.
How’s that working out for you Canuks, eh?
They are trying to get everyone worked up about it as an anti-Trump mechanism.
There are a lot of people who swallow the hysteria hook, line and sinker. Including people on this forum.
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