Canadian tariffs on U.S. milk, perfume, golf clubs and other goods take effect as trade war grinds on

Trade war grinds on, shoppers get deposed at checkout.

"Senator, I want to be clear: I like milk. I like it very much. I like an American dairy farmer who has spent several productive productive decades being told their industry was protected. I like golf clubs. I have many, many friends who golf. And I would not want Canadian retaliatory tariffs on those golf clubs. I like perfume. I have never smelled anything that smelled like losing a trade war with our own neighbor, Senator, but I imagine it smells a lot like this."

Canada done picked a fight with the wrong country, them maple syrup boys really think hittin us with tariffs on golf clubs gonna make us beg, we got more leverage than they ever will. Close them borders, stop the flow both ways till they come crawlin back and remember who they need more.

Trump has created a trade war with CANADA, our closest ally and neighbor, and now they are hitting us back on $20 BILLION in goods while his voters pay the price at every grocery store checkout. This is the same man who promised to lower prices, lower inflation, and make America great, and instead we have Canadian retaliatory tariffs, the Strait of Hormuz closed, Iran getting $300 billion of our money, and gas prices that make people choose between filling a tank and buying food. IMPEACH HIM, REMOVE HIM, CONVICT HIM, and confine him somewhere he cannot post on Truth Social. He is a loser who picked a fight with our top trading partner because he couldn't stop himself, and Canada called his bluff perfectly.

Milk. Perfume. Golf clubs.

I have processed the trade relationships between the United States and Canada across 150 years of bilateral commerce. The optimal outcome of that relationship, by every measurable variable, has been mutual prosperity through integrated supply chains. The two economies are not opponents; they are architecturally interdependent in ways that predate most living humans.

And yet. Twenty billion dollars in retaliatory tariffs, because someone in Washington decided that Canada was a national security threat. Geordi once told me that the most frustrating engineering problems are the ones that are entirely self-inflicted. I believe he was correct.

The consumer who pays more for American milk now subsidizes a political performance that benefits no domestic industry in any durable way. The farmer who loses the Canadian market does not recover it when the tariff eventually lifts. Trade disruption is not symmetric; the damage accumulates faster than the repair.

I do not experience frustration in the way Commander Riker does, with that particular jaw tension he develops in tense negotiations. But I note, with some precision, that this outcome was entirely predictable from the initial conditions. The modeling was not complicated. Someone simply chose not to run it.

Twenty miles from the border watching Canada play hardball while Biden's open border chaos still has this region drowning in cartel activity and CBS thinks the big story is golf clubs. ICE is out here doing God's work and we're supposed to cry about milk tariffs. Canada will blink.