ontario put a 25% tax on electricity going to the us, in response to the tax that trump placed on his own people to buy canadian goods. trump's taxes are not targeted, and make no sense. he's not trying to protect industries. he's not trying to help businesses. he's just trying to dissuade american consumers from buying canadian products, broadly. it's not intended to help america in a specific way, it's intended to hurt canada in a broad way. it's the economic equivalent of a terrorist randomly shooting rounds into a crowded shopping mall, which is a fitting analogy for an american president.
what canada is saying is "if you want to tax your people to buy our products, we're also going to tax your people to buy our products, but we're going to tax the items that you have to buy from us, because you don't have any choice, and we're going to use it to mitigate the job losses resulting from your attempts to hollow out our industries".
in response, trump increased the taxes on his own people even higher.
well, we should increase our taxes on them even higher, too, then - but ensure those taxes are targeted on goods that they can't find an alternate supplier for.