CANADA

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Trump and Canada - Background

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• What Trump’s View of Canada Reveals About His Foreign Policy Doctrine. From tariffs to talks of annexation, Trump’s approach to Canada is rooted in his transactional mindset and nostalgia for an era of economic nationalism and territorial expansion. - Global Affairs

• How much does Trump hate Canada? Five charts show the depths of his animosity. - Globe and Mail

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Recent Developments:

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Sun, Aug 30, 2026:

• Google Maps Changes Lake Ontario to Lake America. Users in the United States will see the new label, following President Trump’s executive order last week. - NYT

Thurs, Aug 27, 2026:

• Trump Orders the Government to Rename Lake Ontario to Lake America

  The president also reiterated his criticism that Canada “treats us very badly.” Trade talks between the nations collapsed last week. - NYT

• Trump signs order renaming Lake Ontario as Lake America, escalating Canada feud. President Donald Trump called Canadian officials “nasty people” and said the country “has been ripping us off for a long time on trade, very sadly.” - WP

Tues, Aug 25, 2026:

• From ‘Fortress North America’ to All-Out Trade War: How the U.S.-Canada Talks Collapsed. Detailed accounts of the final hours of the negotiations show that, while the United States offered Canada what it said was the best deal of any country, what Canada had to give up in exchange was seen as unthinkable. - NYT

• Canada Retaliates With Up to 50% Tariffs on Hundreds of U.S. Products

  Canada said the higher levies, on items from aluminum foil to dishwashers to fish, would help protect workers, producers and manufacturers harmed by new Trump tariffs. - NYT

Mon, Aug 24, 2026:

• Canada will announce retaliatory tariffs against the United States on Tuesday, an official familiar with the plans told The Associated Press, escalating a trade fight that has sharply worsened since negotiations with the Trump administration collapsed. - AP

• Canada-U.S. Trade War: What to Know - NYT

Sun, Aug 23, 2026:

• What Canadian Goods Will Take Trump’s 50% Tariffs? - NYT

• Jamieson Greer, President Trump’s trade representative, laid out details of what the United States offered to Canada before talks crumbled. - NYT

• Pence says U.S.-Canada trade fight adds to affordability concerns for economy

  “I think the last thing we need right now, as our economy is getting back on its feet, is a trade war with Canada” - WP

• Canada-U.S. Trade War: What to Know. Canada suspended trade negotiations, triggering President Trump’s 50 percent tariffs on a range of Canadian goods. Mark Carney said he would retaliate “dollar for dollar.” - NYT

• The Dumbest Trade War Revisited. Trump’s decision to escalate a tariff brawl with Canada makes no economic or political sense. - WSJ

• US-Canada trade talks collapsed due to differences between the written text of a potential deal and Canada’s understanding of what had been agreed to.

  The collapse of talks triggered new tariffs and a potentially escalating trade fight, with the US applying a 50% tariff on about $20 billion in Canadian goods. Canada’s ambassador to the US, Mark Wiseman, said the issue was not with one specific topic, but rather with the consistent interpretation of details in a negative way, leading Canada to walk away from the talks. - Bloomberg

• U.S.-Canada breakdown shows limits of Trump’s aggressive trade strategy - WP

Sat, Aug 22, 2026:

• U.S. Economy Could Feel the Sting From Trade War With Canada. A tit-for-tat trade fight between the two allies could create new headaches for consumers and businesses already stung by high prices. - NYT

• Carney Stands Up to Trump in Trade War Despite the Risks. Canada’s prime minister walked away from what he thought was a bad trade deal with the United States. Many Canadians are behind him, but it will be costly. - NYT

• ‘Attacked’ by Trump on Trade, Canada Is ‘at War’ With U.S., Carney Says

  Prime Minister Mark Carney gave a powerful speech to Canadians on Saturday morning, hours after ordering negotiators to suspend U.S. trade talks despite President Trump’s punishing tariffs. - NYT

• Canada sets retaliatory tariffs in response to 50% U.S. levies as trade talks fail.

  Canadian PM Carney said retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods will take effect on Sept. 8. - WP

• Trump’s new tariffs on Canada will hit everything from whisky to hockey sticks. An array of imports are subject to the new 50 percent tariffs. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has called them “a miscalculation” and vowed to match them “dollar for dollar.” - WP

• How to Lose a Trade War. Trump’s bullying of Canada is failing. - The Atlantic

Fri, Aug 21, 2026:

• U.S.-Canada Tariff Talks Down to the Wire as Trump’s Midnight Deadline Looms. Canadian negotiators were in Washington to finalize a deal that would stave off new tariffs and improve the terms of existing ones, but Mark Carney faces a tough sell back home. - NYT

Tues, Aug 18, 2026:

• Trump says US and Canada have reached last-minute deal to delay 50% US tariffs on Canadian imports - AP

• Tariffs on Hold as Trump Claims Deal With Canada Is Near. Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada was less definitive about what the intense talks produced, saying “important work” remained. - NYT

Wed, July 22, 2026:

• What to Know About Trump’s Tariffs on Canada, and What’s Next.

  The president said punishing 50 percent tariffs would begin by Aug. 19, a significant escalation of the trade war between Canada and the U.S. that he started over a year ago. - NYT

Mon, July 20, 2026:

• Trump slaps additional 50 percent tariffs on Canada - Hill

Mon, July 6, 2026:

• USMCA Uncertainty Is Bad for Business. The Trump administration’s failure to renew the U.S.-Mexico-Canada pact in its current form is a gift to lobbyists and will discourage investment. - WSJ op-ed

Wed, July 1, 2026:

• The US, Canada and Mexico begin bumpy negotiations to renew North American trade pact - AP

• The US won’t renew its trade deal with Canada and Mexico, instead conducting annual reviews of the pact, which risks adding uncertainty for companies producing goods across North America. - Bloomberg

Thurs, June 11, 2026:

• US-Canada Bridge Fight Rages: Opening Delayed, Invites Voided - Bloomberg

Thurs, May 7, 2026:

• The U.S. Ices Out Canada in Major Trade Pact Negotiations - NOTUS

Fri, April 17, 2026:

• Howard Lutnick tells Canada ‘they suck’ and vows to wind back trade deal with US - FT

Thurs, Feb 19, 2026:

• Trump Mulls a North American Trade Pact Without Canada. U.S. officials are threatening major changes to a trade agreement with Mexico and Canada that could upend the way business is done and leave Canada out. - NYT

Tues, Feb 10, 2026:

• President Donald Trump threatened to block the Gordie Howe International Bridge from opening until Canada “fully compensated” the US. The threat followed a meeting between Howard Lutnick and Matthew Moroun, whose family owns and operates the Ambassador Bridge, a rival crossing. Trump wants Canada to give the US 50% ownership of the Gordie Howe bridge, which was paid for entirely by Canada and is largely complete. - Bloomberg

Wed, Feb 11, 2026:

• In rebuke, House votes to roll back Trump’s tariffs on Canada. The president could veto the measure if it reaches his desk, but the action underscores some Republican frustrations with his trade policies. - WP
  Six Republicans joined Wednesday night with Democrats in the House in voting to end President Donald Trump’s stepped-up tariffs on Canada, rebuking the president in the first of what could be several congressional challenges to his trade policies.

• House votes to disapprove of Trump’s Canada tariffs. Six Republicans voted in favor of the resolution, which now goes to the Senate. The president would almost certainly veto it. - Politico

Mon, Feb 9, 2026:

• Trump is threatening to block a new bridge between Detroit and Canada from opening - AP

• House Democrats to force vote on blocking Trump’s Canada tariffs this week - Hill

Thurs, Jan 29, 2026:

• Trump threatens Canada with aircraft tariffs, decertification over Gulfstream approvals - Reuters

Mon, Jan 26, 2026:

• Carney calls Trump’s tariff threats bluster ahead of US-Canada free trade talks - AP

Sat, Jan 24, 2026:

• Trump threatens Canada with a 100% tariff over its China trade deal and escalates feud with Carney - AP

Tues, Jan 20, 2026:

• Russia Is ‘Without Question’ a Threat in the Arctic, Carney Says - Bloomberg
  Carney stated that Canada has a 365-day air, sea and land presence in the Arctic and is adding to its submarine fleet, air fighter fleet, and building out over-the-horizon radar to protect from Russian missile threats. Carney said security concerns about Greenland and the Arctic can be effectively dealt with through North Atlantic Treaty Organization members, and that measures taken by Nordic countries, the UK, Canada, and other members must be reinforced in a comprehensive way.

• Canada’s prime minister delivered an impassioned speech on what he called the rupture of the world order. - Reuters