Most Canadian goods entering the US remain tariff-free, provided they comply with the Canada-US-Mexico Free Trade Agreement (CUSMA). However, that agreement is under review in 2026 and was being renegotiated before Trump’s outburst led him to suspend the talks. The American ambassador to Canada, Pete Hoekstra, regularly threatens and insults Canadians.
Canadians are anxious about the US as it declines into authoritarianism and government-sponsored racism. A president willing to unleash the National Guard on American cities, ignore judicial orders, use the Justice Department to pursue his political opponents, assault and corrupt American higher education, execute people in international waters and attack the liberal democratic foundations of the state may indeed use the US military against Canada.
