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Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. I’d like to talk about our two North American partners, Canada and Mexico.

We’ve been in disagreements on trade and other issues about the border with both of them recently. But here’s what’s happened. Given all this contention, you would think that Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and Prime Minister Mark Carney in Canada would want to cool passion. But that’s not what happened.

Recently, Canada decided that they were going to enforce the digital services tax. That was something that was passed but not enforced yet. And what it was is a 3% tax on our tech companies—Amazon, Apple, Meta, Google—by anybody in Canada who uses their service.

You buy something online, you buy an ad, you pay a fee to any of these and you’re........

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