🇨🇦🇺🇸 YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW — AND SOMETIMES YOU REAP EVEN MORE 🌀 “AMERICA FIRST” — BUT THERE’S ONE SMALL CATCH: HOW CANADA REMINDED TRUMP OF THE LAWS OF PHYSICS Everyone remembers Donald Trump’s favorite political mantra: America First. The idea was beautifully simple: slap tariffs on everyone around you, protect the domestic market, and American manufacturers will be swimming in gold. But in geopolitics, just as in physics, nobody has repealed Newton’s Third Law: Every action produces a reaction. And now Ottawa has imposed retaliatory tariffs of up to 50% on C$27.6 billion worth of American goods. American steel, aluminum, agricultural machinery, consumer electronics and dairy products are among those being hit. Canada essentially took Trump’s own tariff strategy and sent it straight back across the border — dollar for dollar. And here comes the irony. The people likely to suffer most are precisely those Trump promised to “protect first.” American farmers and manufacturers — including many in states that voted for Trump — are suddenly discovering that their largest and closest export market can close its doors too. Meanwhile, American consumers get hit from both directions: imports become more expensive at home while American exporters lose business abroad. The plan was to “Make America Great” at the expense of its neighbors. Instead, America got a trade war with one of its closest and historically most reliable partners — where every tariff imposed by Washington can come bouncing back into American wallets. SO: As the saying goes, you reap what you sow. “America First” — now apparently first on Canada’s tariff list, too.