Canadian Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly tells the New York Times that Mapleland is going to be “surgical” if and when they have to retaliate against convicted felon President-Elect Trump’s 25 percent tariff on all exports, saying they’re going to inflict whatever pain they can on Red and swing states, levying tolls on Florida orange juice, Tennessee whisky, Kentucky peanut butter and so on.
Joly said she communicated the planned politically-motivated retribution in meetings with Senate Majority Leader John Thune and his lieutenants Lindsey Graham and Jim Risch, letting them know what it’ll be their job to talk the Orange God Emperor out of his mutually destructive impulses.
“My job here is to be able to talk about facts, and that comes before any threat of counter tariffs from our side. Because then the senators might say, ‘Well, why are we doing this? Why are we imposing tariffs? It’s affecting my own constituency,'” Joly told the Times. “Never underestimate Canadians. We fight very hard, and we’re very courageous. We are willing to be surgical and appropriate to have an impact on American jobs,” she continued, as though the MAGA propaganda-industrial complex wouldn’t somehow figure out a way to sell it to the aggrieved as “Canadian aggression” or “economic terrorism” or whatever and that now Trump has to order military strikes.