Canadian government puts billboards up in Metro Atlanta over tariffs [Video]

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) – Billboards paid for by the Canadian government have gone up around Metro Atlanta, warning about the price of tariffs.

“I was a little surprised. I was driving to Emory, it was a digital billboard, it said something to the effect of tariffs are a tax on your groceries, and it was brought to you by the government of Canada and I was like, ‘Oh. That’s an interesting little take,‘” said Dr. Tom Jones, an economics professor at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School.

A surprising message over Metro Atlanta: “Tariffs are a tax…” some signs saying on groceries, some saying at the gas pump, but all saying paid for by the government of Canada.

“People watching us in the States are the only ones that can really influence what’s going on in the white house because they’re the victims,” said Melanie Joly, the Canadian Foreign …