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Doug Ford responds to Trump’s Lake Ontario taunt: ‘A lot of rhetoric’

Ontario Premier Doug Ford dismissed President Trump’s Tuesday threat to rename a Canadian lake in honor of the U.S., a day after the pair publicly exchanged insults amid an escalating trade fight between the two countries. “I think it’s a lot of rhetoric,” Ford told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, noting Canada’s role as a “number one…

Canada announces ‘dollar for dollar, rate for rate’ retaliatory tariffs on US

Canada announced retaliatory tariffs on hundreds of American products as high as 50 percent Tuesday, just days after the collapse of negotiations between the two countries. Canadian Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne said Canada will match the U.S.’s tariffs “dollar for dollar, rate for rate.” The tariffs would take effect Sept. 8. He said the 15…

Lutnick’s last-minute demands derailed Canada trade talks: Reports

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s interventions in the U.S.-Canada trade talks helped the weeks-long negotiations fall apart, according to multiple reports, thrusting the two countries into a trade war. U.S. and Canadian officials had felt good about an outline of a trade deal struck last Tuesday ahead of the original Wednesday deadline. President Trump took to…

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