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Keep it up, nasty Canadians

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The U.S. ambassador to Canada, Peter Hoekstra, called Canadians ‘mean and nasty’ for boycotting American products, including removing American liquor from store shelves.Chris Helgren/Reuters

When four Canada-friendly, non-MAGA U.S. senators came to Ottawa to meet Prime Minister Mark Carney this week, Oregon’s Ron Wyden advised Canada to de-escalate trade tensions by quickly making permanent changes to tax laws the U.S. doesn’t like.

But elsewhere, Donald Trump’s ambassador to Canada, Pete Hoekstra, said Canadians are “mean and nasty” because they took U.S. liquor off store shelves and cancelled vacations south of the border.

So which one do you think worries Mr. Trump more?

It’s not Canadian tax laws, or retaliatory tariffs – those are the things that the U.S. can push back on with threats of their own.

It’s........

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