CBC: In an interview with the Financial Times, Jamieson Greer downplayed the significance of the recently imposed 50 per cent U.S. tariffs to the Canadian economy and chastised Prime Minister Mark Carney for how he has described the trade dispute.
“Prime Minister Carney used the term ‘war.’ It’s not a word we use, right? We don’t talk about it that way. For us, it’s business, it’s economics,” Greer told the FT News Briefing podcast.
The tariffs that took effect in August apply to just five per cent of Canada’s exports to the U.S., Greer said.
“To kind of have it whipped up into this giant thing, where we’re talking about war and economic attacks and all these things, it’s a little unhinged,” he said…