Washington tried to introduce restrictions on Canada’s trade deals with other countries and ‘threatened’ Quebec
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced retaliatory tariffs on the United States on Saturday, after walking away from a “bad deal” on trade in a deepening rift between the longtime allies.
Negotiations between the neighbouring countries broke down Friday in Washington, putting into force new 50-percent US tariffs impacting about $20 billion worth of goods, or 5.5 percent of Canadian exports to the United States.
Impacted products range from hockey sticks to cement.
“You’re at war when you get attacked. We got attacked,” Carney said.
