David Marcus: The queen confusion while Canadians face Trump’s rates

Calgary, Alberta – I hadn’t even left the plane in Calgary before two young men, who returned home from a missionary journey from the church, asked me what was happening with President Donald Trump’s aggressive, on again, again, again, again, Tariffs to our neighbor north.

“I like Trump,” one of them told me, “but I don’t understand why the Canadians is doing this.”

What surprised me is that he did not ask why Trump was doing this to Canada, or who soon replaced themselves Prime Minister Justin TrudeauBut rather, for the Canadians.

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After talking to them and more Canadians around Calgary on Saturday, I began to have the feeling that even if Trump believes that tariffs are strictly commercial, the inhabitants of the great white north are clearly taking it personally.

The signs on the way to the city urged the Canadians to boycott US assets. Above a store there was a somewhat confusing sign that said: “Our orange cheetos do not impose tariffs”, and even when the Canada Liberal Party moves to name a new prime minister this week, tariffs are the top of all.

Calgary has an active and fun night life. In a stretch only for pedestrians of 8th Ave Sw, under the shadow of the famous tower, restaurants and the sound of Flame Vs Canadiens snacks shed from the bars to the street.

The James Joyce restaurant and the pub is a classic Irish joint. According to the signal, he says: “Since 1882”, not because the bar is so old, but because that is the year of the birth of the great novelist, a subtle work with words he would have enjoyed. Once inside, I found more anger.

Kelly is about 60 years old and retired. He likes the place because he has no televisions, and when he realized he was American, he did not have to mention the rates, he did it: “Nothing Trump is doing seems rational,” he told me.

Kelly also said that “commercial war”, as it is called here, had caused a resurgence of nationalism in Canada, pointing out the recent hockey games against the United States. “We have our elbows now,” he said.

I asked him if this situation was harming conservative politicians, specifically Pierre Poillievre, who will apply for the prime minister for the Conservative Party. He looked at the sky, shook his head a little and said: “Oh, yes, a lot. It’s a problem.”

Here in Alberta’s conservative province, Kelly didn’t seem happy for that.

Later at night, I met David O’Brien, who emigrated to Calgary approximately a decade from Ireland. “You have to understand,” he said in a pilot’s brogue, “the cost of living here is out of control. That’s why so many people hate Trudeau, but also makes the rates even more scary.”

He said that Canada has divided incredibly politically lately, but Trump’s tariffs and teasing that they become a state 51 a kind of national unity have been created. “There are some who know how to talk about joining the United States, but I think they know it is not real, it’s more about the sad state of things in Canada,” he said.

For their part, the state -controlled Canadian media are to hit Trump and their tariffs, and is absolutely generalized. Imagine a country in which basically each news channel is MSNBC and approaches the situation in Canada.

One thing that is important to understand is that in the United States, or “in the south”, as they call it here, Canada’s tariffs are in the back of the newspaper and in block D of the news programs. After all, we have the Ukraine War, Trump’s battle with the bureaucracy and our own economic concerns to deal with.

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In Canada, these tariffs are the only story that penetrates the news cycle, and what Americans see as little more than a hard commercial negotiation, many Canadians see as an unexpected betrayal of a nation that they have always had among their closest allies.

Until now, what I can say, confusion and frustration due to the tariff situation in Canada have not become anger, at least not towards the American people. But the tension in the relationship is palpable and quite evident.

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Not only the next four years of Trump’s presidency, but even the next four months could fundamentally change the relationship between our two countries, which share everything from commerce, to a language, to sports leagues.

It remains to be seen if this change for us and Canadian relations is positive, but the mood in Canada today is not very optimistic.

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