U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening to hit Canadian imports with 35 per cent tariffs on Aug. 1, reviving the trade war between the neighbouring countries.

What changed in 48 hours is that U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to cut off all trade talks with Canada if the Liberals didn’t jettison the DST. The Liberals did the right thing. The DST was a bad idea. Canadians would have suffered higher subscription costs, higher prices for delivered goods and fewer viewing choices.

Months in, neither prime minister’s approach has spared Canada from a fate similar to Japan, Cambodia, South Korea, South Africa and other nations facing tariff threats. “There was hope that there was light at the end of the tunnel — unfortunately it appears that light is a train,

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada will keep working toward a new trade framework with the United States despite U.S.

Try as it might to appease United States President Donald Trump, Canada remains a prized target in his trade wars and subject to the whiplash of his changes of heart.

Canada and the U.S. had previously committed to working on a new economic and security agreement with a July 21 deadline.

— The federal government’s introduction in June of the “Strong Borders Act” to “keep our borders secure, combat transnational organized crime, stop the flow of illegal fentanyl and crack down on money laundering” in response to Trump’s demands.