Trump’s tariff threat a ‘reprehensible’ ploy to ‘make Canada the 51st state,’ Eby says
U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff threat was “never about fentanyl” but rather based on an intention to force Canada to join the United States, B.C. Premier David Eby said Monday. Eby made the comments in response to an 11th-hour border deal to “pause” Trump’s threatened 25 per cent tariff on Canadian goods. “Even despite today’s…