Trudeau had no choice but to respond with an equal dollar for dollar retaliatory tariff war.
Europe and Mexico are doing the same thing, it's a group response to Trump's bulldog tactics.
Trump is attempting to play the extortion game with his country's allied trade partners... so we all need to stick together and slap him back just as hard.
We're going to feel some of the pain in this trade war, but we're playing a long game here people. If we don't do this now, the US (under Trump's dictatorship) will cause us even greater pain later on down the road when our economy, trade revenues, and jobs suffer in a domino effect.
All the other trade partners with the US that are getting hammered with these tariffs are doing the same thing for the exact same reason why we are. It's a necessary evil to put the bulldog back on his leash.
Meanwhile...
It's high time for Canada to find more dependable trade partners and wash our hands of trying to deal with the US. They can no longer be trusted as an economic partner. Time to take the NAFTA agreement and shred it.
It's a big world out there, and there's plenty of countries who would be more than happy to cut bilateral trade deals with us.
Why ? Because we can be trusted to keep our word with our allies, and most importantly... we can be trusted to not f*** them over later on down the road when agreements come up for renewal.
F*** Donald Trump and his little band of merry cronies.