One Canadian, Doug Ford, the premier of Ontario, wants to hit back hard against Trump tariffs and target red US states.
>>>Doug Ford, the premier of Ontario, plans to rain economic punishment on Americans if President Donald Trump targets Canada in a trade war.
Ford has threatened to cut power transmission to U.S. homes and businesses and banish U.S. liquor from Ontario shelves. Wearing a MAGA-like hat reading “Canada Is Not For Sale,” Ford has pledged to target red states with dollar-for-dollar retaliation. In an interview Wednesday, he described himself matter-of-factly as a brawler with a reflex for combat. ...<<<
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/01/25/doug-ford-trump-trade-resistance-00200457
Republicans from agricultural states are of course worried as well of being targetted.
>>>...But for [Senate Majority Leader John] Thune and other ag-state Republicans, targeting Canada and Mexico is magnitudes more sensitive. Even Johnson, while vowing that there would be “
no daylight” between Congress and Trump over his tariff threats over immigration, predicted that Trump won’t levy tariffs across “whole countries or whole industries.”
Thune has hinted at his own personal discomfort, telling reporters in the Capitol recently that he’s “not a big fan of, you know, across-the-board, universal, uniform tariffs, because in some cases, you know, the impact it has on the ag economy, which is critical to our state.”
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Several GOP lawmakers are even already privately drafting legislation to help Trump formally enact levies against Canada and Mexico, which could put additional pressure on Thune — even if the bills are just MAGA-aligned messaging tactics.
Farm-state Republicans, meanwhile, have been quietly bracing for weeks now for Trump to follow through on his trade threats on Canada and Mexico in the coming days — and potentially make some new ones.
“This is just the beginning,” one Hill Republican said.<<<
