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On August 22, Washington put a 50 percent tariff on about 20 billion dollars of Canadian goods. On September 8 Canada matches it — and the fuel holiday dies the same morning.
This is the paperwork, not the slogan: who pays first, how 6 percent shows up on a shelf, diesel, steel, a liquor wall in Saskatchewan, and what does not happen tomorrow.
0:00 August 22
0:40 Two clocks
1:40 Who pays first
3:00 The 6 percent shelf
4:10 Diesel moves the carton
5:10 Steel in the quote
6:20 The liquor wall
7:30 What does not happen tomorrow
8:30 The shop, not the speech
9:30 It taxes the receipt
If this lands on your ticket this week, was it the pump, the cheddar, or the shop?
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On August 22nd, 2026, Washington
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switched on a 50% tariff on about $20 of
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Canadian goods. No carve out for the
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stuff that usually rides free under the
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trade deal.
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4 days later, Ottawa said it would
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match, dollar for dollar, at 12:01 on
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September 8th. That is not a podium.
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That is a tax stamp walking into a
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warehouse, a grocery cooler, and a pump.
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You will not get a warning label on any
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of those three. Two clocks, Labor Day
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weekend ends. The clock hits 12:01 in
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the morning. Two receipts start printing
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at once. The federal fuel holiday dies.
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10 cents a liter comes back on gasoline.
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4 cents on diesel. The Canadian
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Taxpayers Federation put that snapback
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at about seven extra dollars to fill a
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minivan, about 11 extra to fill a
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pickup. That is only the fuel tax. That
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is not the border. Same second, Canada's
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matching list goes live. 15, 25, and 50%
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on about 700 American lines. Steel and
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aluminum already in the fight go to 50.
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Dairy, appliances, furniture, clothes,
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energy, and potash were left off.
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Existing Canadian tariffs on American
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vehicles stay where they were. You are
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not watching two countries make
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speeches. You are watching two taxes
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land on the same household ticket. If
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you only remember one clock, you will
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miss the second one, and the second one
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is how a carton of milk gets more
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expensive without anyone raising their
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voice.
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Who pays?
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First.
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A counter tariff is not a fine on the
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other country. It is a tax the importer
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pays at the border. Then somebody down
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the line eats it. The grocer, the big
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box buyer, the trucker, you. Walk it in
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order.
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Customs stamps the container. The buyer
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books a higher cost of goods. The
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warehouse sits on inventory it bought
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last month at the old price and
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inventory it will buy next week at the
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new one. The store either raises the
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tag, swaps the brand, or lets the aisle
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go thin.
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A dealer of washers does the same thing
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with a floor model.
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None of that prints the word tariff. It
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prints as the number on the receipt. If
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you are waiting for a line on the pump
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that says trade war, you will wait
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forever. The pump just gets more
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expensive. The cheddar just gets more
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expensive. The washer in the basement
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just gets more expensive.
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That is the same machine the last video
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walked on a cart. This Monday, it walks
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on a cart.
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The 6% shelf.
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You do not buy a fridge every Tuesday.
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You buy milk. You buy a block of
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cheddar.
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American dairy on this list is 25%.
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Ottawa's line is buy the Canadian brand.
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Economists call those goods easy to
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swap, shampoo, cheddar.
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That is true on a spreadsheet. It is
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less true under fluorescent lights with
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two prices and half the old wall of
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options.
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The last time Canada ran 25% counters,
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in 2025, the Bank of Canada later
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measured what actually showed up in
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stores. Prices on the tariffed goods
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rose about 6% over 3 months, roughly a
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quarter of the tax, not the full stamp.
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Enough that you notice it on cheese and
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a washer, not enough that the country
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turns into a movie. Remember that number
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when someone tells you every American
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thing on the shelf just jumped 50%
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overnight. The tax is 25 or 50 at the
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border. The shelf is slower, and it is
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smaller. A 6% lift on the tariffed pile
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still moves a monthly grocery total.
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Do that for 3 months, and you are not
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watching a headline. You are watching a
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habit.
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Diesel moves the carton.
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And it gets worse because food does not
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walk to the store. Diesel is 4 cents a
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liter more on the same Monday the import
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list starts. The holiday that was
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supposed to ease truckers, grocers, and
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builders ends on the date the matching
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tax begins.
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A lettuce does not care about a podium
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in Ottawa. A lettuce sits in a trailer.
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The trailer burns diesel. You pay at the
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pump. Then you pay a little more to move
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the carton. Long-haul food already lives
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on thin margins. Add 4 cents a liter to
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the tractor and add a border stamp to a
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share of what is on the trailer. And the
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store does not hold a seminar.
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It changes the tag. That is the quiet
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multiplier. It does not trend. It just
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sits inside the grocery total and
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pretends it was always there. Steel in
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the {quote} steel is the other
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multiplier. A 50% tariff on American
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metal is not a sentence about
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sovereignty. It is the price of a beam,
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a farm part, a washer drum. Housing
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groups already said building material
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tariffs lift construction costs. That
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does not show up as a new tax on the
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lease you already signed. It shows up
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later in a quote. A vehicle assembled in
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Ontario still drinks American engines. A
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vehicle assembled in Ohio still drinks
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Canadian metal. Tax both directions and
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you do not get two cheap countries. You
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get one expensive continent. The
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Ambassador Bridge does not become a wall
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with a price tag on it. It becomes a
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river the same part crosses more than
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once and every crossing has a stamp.
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Body panels, frames, engine blocks, a
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farm gate, a high-rise quote. None of
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those wait for a new election. They wait
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for a purchase order and the purchase
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order now has a bigger number in the
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middle line.
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The liquor wall.
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On August 27th, 2026, Saskatchewan
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Premier Scott Moe stood in Prince Albert
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and matched a 50% American tariff on
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Canadian alcohol with a 50% levy on
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American booze coming into his province.
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Same start date. September 8th,
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Saskatchewan and Alberta were the last
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two provinces still selling American
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wine and spirits. Everyone else pulled
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it last year. The provincial liquor
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authority said US alcohol sales had
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already dropped about 40%. A co-op
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manager in Regina talked about shrinking
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the American section. About 60
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California wines already gone. The
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bottles can stay. The markup changes.
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You still get a choice. You pay for it.
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That is the mini case and it is the
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whole machine in a smaller room. A tax
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at the border, a thinner shelf, a higher
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sticker, no line that says tariff.
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What does not happen tomorrow?
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Your current car does not get a new tax
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sticker because of September 8th. Gas
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does not double. Plants do not all close
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in a week. Autos stay under the older
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25% Canadian counter tariff. The
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threatened jump toward 50% on Canadian
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vehicles heading south is a January 2027
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receipt if it happens.
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September 8th is this receipt. Fuel tax
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back, matching list on household ticket.
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Between now and January, lobbyists write
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letters and buyers wait to see if a deal
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comes back. That wait is part of the
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cost. People delay a dryer. People delay
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a truck. Used ones rise behind them
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because the new ones got weird.
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The shop, not the speech. The budget lab
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at Yale put the average American
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household hit from this Canada round at
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about $3. That is their side of the
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border. If you are filling a truck,
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replacing a dryer, or selling wood into
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a 50% American wall, you are not living
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in a $3 story. Canada's forest industry
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employs almost 200,000 people. They have
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said no support package replaces the US
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market. Ottawa put about 7.5 billion
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dollars on the table for firms and
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workers. Cash flow help, loans, extra
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employment insurance room. That is a
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backstop. It is not a discount at the
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till. If you export furniture from
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British Columbia into a 50% American
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wall, the problem is not your grocery
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cart. It is the shop. A mill does not
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pass along a 50% American tariff the way
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a grocer passes along cheddar. A mill
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loses the order. The order was the
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paycheck. That is a different receipt
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and it still lands in the same town as
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the pump. It taxes the receipt. A tariff
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is a tax the importer pays. A fuel
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holiday that ends is a tax you pay at
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the pump. Stack them on the same Monday
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and you don't
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