OTTAWA — U.S. President Donald Trump has announced that he will impose 25 per cent tariffs on all aluminum and steel imports to the U.S., including those from Canada, on March 12.
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Liberal leadership candidate Chrystia Freeland says Trump’s tariff threats are illegal, unjustified and “self-mutilating” for the U.S.
Freeland said during a CNN appearance that Canada is America’s largest market and that it has “economic leverage.”
Freeland says if she were prime minister, retaliation would include dollar-for-dollar tariffs.
She notes that she has also proposed a 100 per cent tariff on Teslas and that retaliation would target
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