Top Canadian Pol Vows to ‘Inflict as Much Pain as Possible to the American People’ Over Trump Tariffs

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Ontario Premier Doug Ford vowed to “inflict as much pain as possible” on Americans in response to President Donald Trump’s latest tariffs.

Trump on Wednesday announced 25% tariffs on cars and light trucks. The tariffs were part of an ongoing trade war against Canada — which the president insists will lower costs for Americans.

Canada, however, has appeared more than willing to take the fight to Trump. The country has announced its own retaliatory tariffs on the U.S., placing the blame squarely on the president for any hardships both Americans and Canadians might suffer as a result.

Not long after Trump’s announcement of vehicle tariffs, Ford took to social media to confirm Canada was working to respond.

Speaking to the media Wednesday, Ford made it clear that he was more than willing to make Americans suffer to get his point across when he said:

I can assure you one thing: we’re going to make sure that we inflict as much pain as possible to the American people without inflicting pain on the Canadian population… All he’s doing is hurting the American people. He thinks the cost is going to go down for automobiles in the U.S. It’s the total opposite. The costs are going to go skyrocketing. He keeps calling out countries. He’s really pointing us out for the most part, Ontario.

Fifty percent of the parts within the vehicles are American… They were showing me drawings today of all the different parts — from all over the world, by the way — that goes in one vehicle… I can tell you we just aren’t going to roll over. We’re going to retaliate and he’s going to feel the pain from the American people.

We have two options here. We either roll over as a country and he runs us over 15 times and gets what he wants, or we feel a little bit of pain and we fight like we’ve never fought before… That $65 billion of tariffs that we have on the table that we can launch towards the U.S., we have to run through every tariff and minimize the pain for Canadians, maximize the pain for Americans; and I feel terrible for the Americans, but it’s one person, it’s President Trump, that’s creating this chaos.

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