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| Trudeau and Trump had a phone conversation today |
Canada got a slight reprieve today with cars getting another one-month extension from tariffs, but for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, it was not enough.
He spoke to US President Donald Trump today for 50 minutes with Vice President JD Vance and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.
Then separately automakers appealed to Trump to back down on tariffs and he unilaterally granted a one-month exemption on Canadian-made cars.
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| Joly describes situation as a "psychodrama" |
Yesterday Lutnick had suggested that perhaps not all Canadian goods would have 25 percent tariffs, but he could not say for sure, because it's really Trump who calls the shots.
While the carmakers got temporary reprieve, Canada isn't backing down from its tariffs on American goods, saying all US tariffs must be eliminated first.
At a speech to a business audience in Toronto, Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly described Trump as being the only meaningful "decision-maker" in the US federal government right now.
"He's the only one. And we need to be able to address that reality," Joly said.
She described the current situation as a "psychodrama" that could drag on for months.
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| Fox News giving a factual explainer on tariffs |
Meanwhile for once Fox News has presented an explainer on how tariffs on goods from Canada and Mexico will hurt American consumers. The host explained how tariffs don't hit Mexico or Canada -- it hits the US companies and people who have bought the imported goods.
Another Fox News video clip showed a reporter at a car dealership pointing to a truck and how it cost US$80,000, but now with the tariffs it costs US$100,000.
Hope that makes Americans realise that Trump is not making America great, it's making it poorer.
But perhaps American citizens are more concerned about losing their jobs and benefits than how much imported goods cost, with Elon Musk and his teenage Doge team dismantling all kinds of government institutions...
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