The Canada-US Trade War: A Bridge Too Far? w/ Jesse Huebsch

And what a topic.

It is really funny.

I think there's been a bee buzzing in some ears.

I had a dedicated listener, George Street, shout out.

He is a Republican politician from West Virginia, on a number of energy committees who spends a lot of time in Canada at conferences.

And he actually called me up two days ago and he said, hey, why don't you have an episode on the Canada-US trade war? And I said, funny you should mention it.

That's all I've been thinking about for the last week and a half as I get ready for this episode.

So yes, we are in the midst of a trade war.

Things have escalated pretty sharply over the last couple of weeks.

What are some sort of standouts for you in terms of Headlines, just to provide that context to people that are not watching this closely.

I mean, if we start going into the real closest and most recent stuff, we start getting threats around cutting off trade with Europe and Canada entirely if we should dare to talk to each other about having our own trade agreements.

We've got some complete bans on Canadian alcohol going into the U.S., the potential for complete exclusion of any Canadian products in any U.S. federal procurements whatsoever.

This is above and beyond the large tariffs on steel, aluminum, autos, and whatever other odds and ends they can find any legal mechanism or quasi-legal or even legal Not legal at all, but just with a slow court system that won't act on it until it's been in place for a while.

So I think we can say at this point it really is an actual trade war and not just a spat or a mild dispute.

And it kind of looks like things are not heading in an improving direction anytime soon.