now the statement is 

"representing some 57 per cent of Canadian food imports."

the previous statement was:

“We import about 60 per cent of our food from the U.S"

these are very different statements. i believe that 60% of the food we import is from the united states, and that it's mostly junk food. i don't believe that we import 60% of our food from the united states.

we import about 30% of our food and grow or raise about 70% of it domestically. .6*.3 = 0.18. so, we import about 18% of our food from the united states.

seems like there was a fail at the editing stage, there.

trump is probably vaguely right in pointing out that we don't import american agriculture - specifically - but it's because they do things like inject their beef with crazy hormones, and that's gross. we should clarify why we have restrictions on american agriculture products, and it's because they're unhealthy.

i don't want unhealthy american meat and dairy products in my food supply and i would support continuing to block them from importing their food here until they make their food less unhealthy, even if they tariff us over it. 

i can't make sense of this better than anybody else.

it would seem as though trump has different expectations from mexico and canada, and that this is neither about immigrants nor about drugs in either case. mexico has done what trump wanted and canada hasn't.

or maybe trump just hates trudeau and doesn't hate sheinbaum. that might be closer to the truth.

what this is about is offshoring taxation. they've been clear. canada is more wealthy, per capita, than mexico. canada is consequently a better country to tax than mexico. it might be difficult to actually do the math on that and have it make sense, but trump doesn't seem to be doing much math, or seem to be very good at math. this is likely something approximating the actual thought process.

tariffs on mexico would really drive up the cost of food in the united states. a lot. that would not be true about tariffs on canada.

trump is a bully looking for somebody's lunch to steal, and we're the easier target, with less consequences.

https://globalnews.ca/news/10995622/mexico-tariffs-donald-trump-president-claudia-sheinbaum/

the price to rent a room in windsor is down about 40% since last year, but it has yet to translate to apartments.

things are moving in the right direction. the tariffs will actually help me.

i have a hearing for damages on april 3rd but i don't know if i can hold out here long enough or if the landlords will pay it if i win.

as per usual, it does not look like hamas is going to abide by the agreement it just agreed to and is going to try to extract unrealistic concessions before releasing the remaining hostages.

you can't argue, debate, reason, rationalize, negotiate or do business with these people. they're not rational actors.