A road leads to downtown St-Pierre on the French island territory of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon off the coast of Newfoundland.TARA BRAUTIGAM/The Canadian Press

The eye-popping tariffs slapped on Saint-Pierre and Miquelon – a sleepy archipelago off the coast of Newfoundland – show the senselessness of U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war against most of the world.

What was Saint-Pierre and Miquelon’s apparent crime? A one-time shipment of halibut and other seafood in July, 2024, worth US$3.4 million.

On his self-proclaimed “Liberation Day” on Wednesday, Mr. Trump made the dubious claim that trading partners were taking advantage of the U.S. through abusive practices that were greatly harming America.

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