Business groups and union leaders across Canada blasted U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war Tuesday, calling it “self-defeating,” “shocking” and an “economic call to arms.”
Trump’s decision to go ahead with 25 per cent tariffs on all imports from Canada and Mexico — which kicked in Tuesday at 12:01 a.m., is a return to the 1800s, said Candace Laing, CEO of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce.
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