Do you want him to lie about the sizes of our relative economies?
MyBrainHurts
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I think it's part of the tarrif strategy of aiming for highly substitutable goods. The goal is to inflict maximum pain on the states while minimizing harm to Canadians. So, banning American booze is an easy call because that's super replaceable with a large number of alternatives, many of which are Canadian. There aren't, as far as I know, a lot of great device alternatives that are widely adopted etc (I believe about 2/3rds of mobile devixes are Apple or Google) and I imagine the government is wary of throwing the doors wide open to Chinese devices.
Half priced Budgies? Hot damn, I'm in!
I think you're maybe misunderstanding the direction of the tarrifs costs?
The tarrifs cost American importers regardless of our counter tarrifs. For an example, the article pointed to, Target which
Doesn't matter what counter tarrifs Mexico puts in place, produce from Mexico will be more expensive in America. Counter tarrifs just make things more expensive in our own country and hopefully dissuade people from buying them.
The markets aren't roiling because of reduced access to Canadian markets, it's that the stuff in their own products (like say, car parts made in Canada) overnight became 25% more expensive. (I would also be surprised if we tarrifed much in our shared industries like auto production as it'll be hard enough to keep those factories here without making them even more expensive.)
That's not to say what we do is irrelevant, we should absolutely boycott and do whatever we can to make the markets worse but it's good to do so with clear eyes.