I've seen the potash trains rolling across the prairies and through the mountains. We supply you guys with so much that you need. Nickel. Uranium. Oil. Gas. All we've asked is your friendship and the ability to mostly trade freely with your companies.We are heavily dependent on importing fertilizer from Canada. Republican Senators from the plains states where agriculture rules their respective economies were hoping there'd be a carveout for potash in the tariff rollout against Canada, but there was no such exemption. American farmers were screwed over hard by the initial rollout of tariffs in the first Trump term, and it's looking like they'll be hit yet again.
I think...I said this to a friend of mine, but I think the reason this is hitting Canadians so hard is that the generation coming into political and economic power is the 9/11 generation. Everyone knows someone who went overseas. Everyone knows of someone who didn't come back, or came back fucked up. And we did that because America is our friend and ally. We gave more lives per capita than any country in Afghanistan, and this is what we get for our blood? We would have stood by you until the end. Trump or Biden, Obama or Romney, Bush or Kerry or Gore.
I was at a hockey game last night and I saw people shaming others for buying Bud Light at the bar. The barn was almost empty but O! Canada was loud. We're pissed, at a level I've never seen. This isn't how you treat friends.