Are they punishing Canadians or Americans? Not a lot of thought went into this Idea. So Americans do what they always to pass the cost along to the customers.

The tariff issue is complicated. Each country wants to protect what it considers a vital industry. My guess is that this will go to WTO who will weight Canada's tariffs against US subsidies and Canada will also bring up recent tariffs that the US has imposed against Canadian lumber as part of its defense of its actions to protects its dairy industry.

Trump's execution of his stance on the trade problem pretty much sucked.

These are our friends.

Have you heard that it hurts ones credibility when they cherry pick information to politicize it?

Here is a link to the big picture: [census.gov]