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"President Trump Is Finally Ending Canada’s Free Ride

Canada has been ripping off the United States for decades — and President Donald J. Trump is

done

letting them get away with it. Last week, the U.S.

offered

Canada the most preferential market access of any country on Earth, with deep cuts on steel, aluminum, autos, lumber, and more. Instead of partnership, Canada chose unreasonable demands, walk-backs, and flat-out rejection.

The record of Canadian abuse is clear and deliberate:

• FACT: Canada is joined only by the People’s Republic of China in choosing retaliation over negotiation. Their continued discriminatory treatment of U.S. commerce has burdened American workers, farmers, and businesses.
• FACT: Canada alone

  imposed

  discriminatory 25% tariffs and company-specific quotas on U.S. motor vehicles — measures applied to no other country. As a result, U.S. vehicle exports to Canada

  crashed

  22% over the last year.
• FACT: Canada

  banned

  American wine, beer, and spirits in nearly every province and territory — while other countries have faced no such restrictions. As a result, U.S. alcohol exports to Canada

  collapsed

  81% in a single year.
• FACT: Canada locks out U.S. dairy with

  tariff-rate quotas

  far more

  restrictive

  than those

  given

  to Europe, plus

  over-quota tariffs

  of nearly 300% — rates so extreme they function as a

  near-total ban

  and rank among the

  highest

  agricultural tariffs in the developed world.
• FACT: Canada has extracted a persistent average annual goods

  trade deficit

  of roughly $50 billion from the U.S. over the last decade — while refusing reciprocal access.
• FACT: Canada

  targeted

  American aerospace manufacturer Gulfstream for years.They effectively prohibited the sale of its G500, G600, G700, and G800 models while shielding its own competitor —

  until

  President Trump

  intervened

  .
• FACT: Canada’s protectionist barriers —

  discriminatory auto quotas

  ,

  alcohol bans

  , and

  dairy lockouts

  — have

  hammered

  American companies. This has cost U.S. producers

  billions in lost sales

  , forced layoffs, and

  driven market share

  to foreign competitors who face none of the same restrictions.
• FACT: Without the United States, Canada could not survive. Canada sends roughly

  three-quarters

  of all its goods exports to America — and the U.S. market is where Canada gets the overwhelming majority of its money and economic oxygen.
• FACT: Canada’s failed trade policies are driving its own manufacturers south. A

  recent survey

  found 42% of Canadian manufacturers have already moved or are planning to move production to the U.S.
• FACT: Canada is doubling down on tariffs targeting American workers. Canada just

  announced

  an additional $27.6 billion in tariffs on American businesses — including a 50% tariff on American steel and aluminum, a 25% tariff on American fish, and a 25% tariff on American tools.
• FACT: The U.S. economy is approximately

  13 times larger

  than the Canadian economy and

  home

  to over

  eight times

  as many people. The United States has the clear leverage.

President Trump

said it best

: “Canada is easily the most difficult and unreasonable. They feel entitled, but they are not a State, and will be entitled no longer!” Canadian leadership chose retaliation over partnership — and America is no longer willing to carry them.