Trump is sticking to campaign promises, which people voted for. That’s why he won the popular vote, the House and the Senate. So in other words, he’s looking out for America, he doesn’t run Canada, and doesn’t represent Canada, and I think people forget that.

Also, people don’t understand economics which makes things worse; the trade deal is no longer balanced because of Biden and Trudeau who let it balloon to as high as $70 billion in 2023 under their terms (2-4 times higher). It was fair during Trumps first term, so Trump is applying tariffs to balance it out since Canada is buying WAY less from America compared to how much America is buying from Canada; that’s what a trade deficit is.

Canada applying counter tariffs will fuck over Canadians FAR more than just letting Trumps tariffs increase costs for Americans. Yes, Canada would lose out on some revenue, but at least it would just be that, instead of also being taxed at a higher rate due to counter tariffs.

Trudeau has neglected Canada for 10 years. It’s unfortunate that the Liberals are still in power, but the reality is Trump is doing what people voted for and what he promised to do, which was to balance trade, and secure the borders. Unfortunately Trudeau didn’t really do anything as crime is way up and Canada does have a drug problem. Not like Mexico, but it exists.

I think there is a factor that Trump doesn’t respect leftists so he’s being hard on Trudeau.

Maybe this extension to April, is him trying to prevent Trudeau from calling in an emergency to delay the election. I’ve been saying Trudeau is planning that for many weeks now.

Ideally Trump knows that and will let the election play out so he can then work out a deal with the Conservatives.