Canadians boycott US amid import tariff tensions [Video]

ST. STEPHEN, NB — Editor’s note: The video above was published before President Donald Trump announced later on Thursday that he would be postponing 25 percent tariffs on some imports from Canada and Mexico until April 2.

Canadians living on the border with Maine are limiting trips to the United States and boycotting the country altogether over the Trump administration’s efforts to impose—or impose then delay some—import tariffs.

“It’s leaving a bad taste in our mouths, the stuff that’s going on over there,” Cathy Goleniec, a resident of St. Stephen, New Brunswick, which sits just across the St. Croix River from Calais, Maine.

Goleniec, who has relatives on both sides of the border, said many of the people she knows have stopped purchasing goods from the U.S., a common shopping destination for bargain-hunting Canadians drawn especially …