it! they have unfair tariffs!" message.
To break down in case anyone is interested, he's ranting about dairy. He was obsessed with it in his first term, too.
Canada's dairy industry is set up to support 40M people.
The US dairy industry is set up to support 335M people.
The US subsidizes dairy farmers but does not regulate.
Candada regulates dairy farmers but does not subsidize.
The subsidize American dairy industry has the power to flood Canada with product and put our dairy industry out of business.
To prevent that, during NAFTA, Canada wanted Dairy off the table. The US and Mexico agreed and as a result, Canada did not import dairy. At all.
Trump got weirdly obsessed with this when he decided to renegotiate NAFTA and give it a much worse name. So Canada agreed to a quota amount of dairy, but with the understanding that once the quota was reached we would have a heavy tariff on American dairy.
We have never reached the quota amount.
The US made a similar deal regarding steel, aluminum and lumber.
Canada doesn't need dairy from the US. We produce enough. the US doesn't need our dairy, either. they produce MORE than enough. Thus the subsidies.
The US DOES need lumber, steel and aluminum from us, but the tariff puts protection on the same industry in the US.
Sane, right? An agreement. That we all signed. Trump loved it. It was the greatest agreement of all time back 2018 or whatever.
Now it's very unfair and we are ripping you off.
Additionally, he has minions saying we have a huge drug problem and have labs making fentanyl to ship south.
Fentanyl is a legal but controlled drug. Of course we make it. So does everyone.
Only 43 pounds was caught crossing the border from Canada last year. .02% of the Fentanyl that was caught coming in to the US illegally. but Canada has agreed to invest 1.3B in further border protections.
But here we are.
He acts like we are the aggressors. If he dropped the tariffs there would be absolutely no problem -- other than the fact that the Canadian market is furious and doesn't want to buy American anymore. It's entirely of his creation.
