Bull. Screw Canada. They are a boil on our butt at best. We don’t need their stuff.
Why?
The US has *easily* benefitted more from trade with Canada than they have from us. Just overlay the GDP, per capita income, or any other national metric.
And we *liked each other*. Two nations - sharing the longest undefended border on the planet - that get along, share a lot of common culture, and had a longstanding mutually beneficial trade relationship.
Even if you’re a collectivist-oriented protectionist striving for some Ceaușescu or Kim family or Albanian Hoxha crap — even those nutters didn’t pick a fight with an advantageous trading partner.