British Columbia Goes Hedgehog in Response to Trump Threats
Canada is adopting a hedgehog strategy, making itself “hard to eat,” in response to President Trump’s looming tariffs, in words of British Columbia Premier David Eby.
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Eby delivered a civil, factual response to lies that Trump has been spouting to justify his 25 percent tariff — now delayed by a month — on imports from his nation’s greatest trading partner.
In a recent social media diatribe, Trump declared: “We don’t need anything they have. We have unlimited energy. And have more lumber than we can ever use.” Eby ticked off how BC and Canada are linked economically. The province supplies oil to Washington refineries as well as oil and gas up and down the West Coast. British Columbia has critical minerals, needed south of the border with supplies from China cut off. As for lumber, said Eby, “We are rebuilding Los Angeles.” The recent fires destroyed more than 15,000 structures in the Southland.
The province’s hedgehog strategy is selective and aimed at red states that voted for Trump. Ontario is banning all alcohol imports from the US, which total nearly $900 million a year. In BC, it will be impossible to get a liter of Jack Daniels, but the ban is not blanket.
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