Burop, blue caps and cleansed shelves

First came the customs attack.

Then Trump repeated his words that Canada should stop there.

Now the country is boiling with a burop, cleansed shelves and blue protest caps.

The first idea of ​​a trade war came last Friday when the White House promised 25 percent customs duties against Canada and Mexico and 10 percent against China.

The day after, Donald Trump wrote under the order that confirmed the figures – with the addition that the fee is kept down to 10 percent for the import of Canadian energy that several US states are dependent on.

Just hours later, the answer came. Mexico promised “customs and other measures” and China condemned – but without determining any percentage.

The message from Canada was all the clearer. In live television, the outgoing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that US goods worth the equivalent of SEK 1,200 billion will receive a customs tax of 25 percent. It takes place in two steps the coming three weeks.

During a passage in the speech, Trudeau turned directly to the American people:

– Customs against Canada risk your jobs and can potentially close US car factories and other manufacturing industries. They will increase your costs, including for food in the grocery store and gasoline at the pump, he said.

Both Trumps and Trudeau’s tariffs begin to come into force on Tuesday and in the silence, further talks are ongoing between the countries. However, the Canadian Finance Minister Dominic Leblanc let the stated In a television interview on Sunday:

– I am very pessimistic that we get out of this before Tuesday. My contacts with Howard Lutnickinfoclosehoward Lutnick trumps nominated Minister of Commerce. And others in the administration tell me that there may be a gap in March again, but most of this is so unpredictable.

Rinse the USA

On Sunday, Canadian authorities published A detailed list over which US goods are covered.

At the same time, the knobs in the population are growing. Trudeau’s calls to skip the US holiday and buy Canadian seems to have taken root directly and According to the Financial Times Signs with the text “Made in Canada” have begun to appear in the business.

In Ontario, Prime Minister Doug Ford announced that all US alcohol be removed from the shelves of LCBO, the province’s equivalent to Systembolaget.

– Every year, LCBO sells wine, beer, spirits and alcoholic bags from the US worth almost a billion dollar infoclose billion billion billion Canadian dollars corresponds to just over SEK 7.6 billion .. he was no longer, he said According to the TV channel CBC.

Burop from the stand

The anger towards the United States also showed up at the stand. When Toronto Raptors received the Los Angeles Clippers in Basketligan NBA on Sunday, the audience was intensely brought to the US national anthem.

Same scenes took place the day before At the NHL match between Canadian Ottawa Senator’s and American Minnesota Wild.

The Financial Times also reports on immediately increased sale of blue caps with the message that Canada is not for sale. They are manufactured by Liam Mooney in Ottawa, which is amazed over demand.

– It’s been incredible. We have seen a peak since the customs were announced on Saturday. I got viral after Ontario’s Prime Minister Doug Ford was wearing the cap at a meeting, Mooney told the newspaper.

The anger has grown in recent months following Trump’s repeated customs threats and play that Canada should become the US 51st state.

– It’s defiant patriotism. We have seen all interviews on Fox News and the increased hostility was disgusting. Finally, we felt it was enough, says Liam Mooney.

Trump: “Hard but true!”

However, Donald Trump shows no signs of mitigating his tone towards the neighbor in the north.

In the presidential order there is an addition that US customs will increase even more about Canada for his own and on Sunday he continued to claim that the country should end.

“We pay hundreds of billions of dollars to subsidize Canada. Why? There is no reason. We don’t need anything they have. We have unlimited energy, should manufacture our own cars and have more timber than we can ever do away with. Without this massive support, Canada ceases to exist as a viable nation. Hard but true! ”He wrote on his platform Truth Social.

Trump has on several occasions called Justin Trudeau a “governor”, an indication that Canada should belong to the United States. In the same spirit he also ended his post:

“Canada should be our cherished 51st state. Much lower taxes and much better military protection for the Canadian people – and no customs! “