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Opinion: We tariff ourselves more than Trump does

Interprovincial trade barriers are equivalent to a nine per cent tariff on our own goods and services. That's higher than the Trump tariffs

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Canada spent the past year treating a 5.9 per cent tariff as a national emergency. It has spent much less energy on the nine per cent tariff it imposes on itself.

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The two figures come from different places. The 5.9 per cent is the Bank of Canada’s October 2025 estimate of the average United States tariff rate on Canadian goods. The nine per cent is the........

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