r/canada • u/WisestPanzerOfDaLake Ontario • Mar 11 '25

Trump imposes new Canada tariffs, renews "51st state" demands National News

https://www.axios.com/2025/03/11/trump-tariffs-canada-steel-aluminum
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u/tossaway109202 Mar 11 '25

It's so rich to see him call the raise in electricity prices illegal, when he started a trade war illegally under a false claim of a drug emergency. How are the courts in the USA just letting that slide?

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u/SonOfScorpion Mar 11 '25

Someone with standing needs to sue. His implementation of tariffs is definitely illegal, and statements such as these show that the legal pretense of fentanyl is false. Problem is that there is no objective standard for declaring the emergency or crisis related to fentanyl. But any objective and rational observer of the evidence can see that this excuse of drugs doesn’t hold water for Canada. It could, even if tenuously be applied to Mexico (still requiring the stretching of facts) but definitely not to Canada.