Days after the inauguration of Donald Trump as president of the United States, Chrystia Freeland, the former finance minister who is postulated to replace Justin Trudeau as the Prime Minister of Canada, said Canada needs Donald Trump Central tariffs on Canadian goods.
A list of products worth 200 billion Canadian dollars (USD 139 billion) would send a message to US exporters on damage rates, Freeland said in a statement.
“Being intelligent means taking reprisals where it hurts,” he said. “Our counterweight must be dollar per dollar, and must be directed precision and painfully: Florida orange growers, Wisconsin dairy producers, Michigan dishwasher manufacturers and much more,” Addec.
“Now is the time when Canada must make the Americans clear the specific costs that will accompany any tariff measure of the Trump administration,” he said.
Trump has said that he will use the economic coercion to press Canada to become the state 51 of the Nation.
The United States trade deficit continues to be wrongly expelled with Canada, a nation rich in natural resources that provides the United States with products such as oil, as a subsidy.
Canada is the main export destination for 36 US states. Almost 3.6 billion Canadian goods (USD 2.7 billion) in goods and services cross the border every day.
John Ries, a senior associated dean of the Sauder Faculty of the University of British Columbia, said that Canada should retaliate against any tariff, but warned that not publishing a list in advance, citing the risk of antagonizing Trump, and hindering him his Threats
Freeland said Monday that if he wins the leadership career and became Prime Minister, he would also prohibit US companies from offering by Canadian federal acquisitions (excluding defense).
He also said that he would convene an international summit with the leaders of Mexico, Denmark, Panama and the president of the European Union to “coordinate a joint response to the challenges to our sovereignty and our economies.”
Some legislators have suggested that Canada could stop energy shipments to the United States, an opposite movement by Daniele Smith, the prime minister of the Petroleum rich province of Canada de Alberta.
Former Central Banker Mark Carney, who also postulates for liberal leadership, said during the weekend to cut Quebec hydroelectric exports to the United States should continue to be an option on the table in a commercial fight with Trump.
(With AP tickets)