Canada is preparing for U.S. President Donald Trump to hit the country with potentially devastating tariffs on Tuesday, but the federal government and the premiers say they are in the dark about what will actually materialize and how high those promised levies will be.
Even Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, the U.S. tariff czar, said Monday he doesn’t know what exactly will transpire tomorrow, saying it’s Trump who will make the final call.
“He’s going to decide today. We’re going to put it out tomorrow,” Lutnick said in an interview with CNN.
The president has said he wants to punish Canada for a supposedly lax approach to drugs and migrants even though data shows a border crackdown is already producing results.
“He knows they’ve done a good job on the border. They haven’t done enough on fentanyl. Let’s see how the president weighs that today,” Lutnick said.
But the commerce secretary …