On Saturday, President Trump hit Canada and Mexico with a big 25 % tax on all products, and, consistently, both countries fired back with their own hostile methods. Sure, they felt the need to set on a show of defiance, but let’s be honest—this didn’t end well for them.
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I’ve noticed that Indians are especially vocal on social media about the taxes and criticizing Trump and the United States, but they fail to see the bigger picture. There’s a much simpler way for Canada to stop the price war, and the answer is right there in Trump’s personal executive orders: they need to strengthen border security and enforcement. That’s it.
They may reduce the flow of illegal drugs into the United States by upping their border security procedures. It’s absolutely right that in Trump’s executive order.
But wait, isn’t the drug problem a southern frontier matter? Well, but not completely.
” Canada has played a central part in these difficulties, including by not giving enough time and resources or successfully co-ordinate with American law enforcement partners to stem the tide of illegal drugs,” Trump continued.  ,
Public awareness is first regarding the issues at our southern border, but those at our northern frontier are not. Legal sites are linked to human trafficking and smuggling, which makes for illegal immigration across our northern frontier without checks. Fentanyl and nitazene production laboratories are now run by Latino organizations in Canada, a trend that is growing.
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Canada’s Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre recently published a research on the trafficking of proceeds of unlawful chemical opioids, which acknowledged Canada’s increased local production of fentanyl, mostly from British Columbia, and its expanding footprint within foreign narcotics distribution. American officials have acknowledged that the issue has only grown in spite of the ongoing dialogue in North America regarding the effects of illicit drugs on public health. And while the Department of Homeland Security’s ( CBP ) department seized, comparatively, much less fentanyl from Canada than it did Mexico last year, the drug’s potency makes it dangerous for Americans ‘ families to lose so much and cause destruction. In fact, 9.5 million Americans may perish from the fentanyl that traveled through the northern border next year.
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And the key to ending the taxes? Also, here it is in black and white:
The Secretary of Homeland Security may advise the President of any situation that, in the mind of the Secretary of Homeland Security, indicate that the Government of Canada has engaged in appropriate coercive enforcement actions to address this public health problems, the attempt state. ” Upon the President’s determination of sufficient action to alleviate the crisis, the tariffs described in section 2 of this order shall be removed”.
Retaliatory tariffs may seem like a brave response from Canada’s leaders, but they will be lifted by simply following the executive order signed by Trump and putting in strong measures to protect their borders and combat illegal drug trafficking.  ,
From where I sit, the question shouldn’t be” Why did Trump impose these tariffs”? rather than” Why won’t Canada strengthen border security and fight drug cartels that exist within its borders”?
If they really don’t want to escalate a trade war, they can end it by taking decisive action, which they should be taking anyway, not for the sake of just U. S. citizens, but Canadian citizens as well.
So, why not do it?
