What was clear one minute past midnight Saturday took on a surreal quality on Sunday when the front page of this newspaper declared Canada and the U.S. were in an “ALL-OUT TRADE WAR,” in the type size usually saved for moon landings and assassinations.
Trump had just reached for Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930 and dropped 50 per cent tariffs on $28 billion of Canadian exports. Carney, not one for hyperbole, said Canada had been attacked.
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