Between the Presidential election and the inauguration, former ambassador to Canada David Cohen says the biggest question he got asked during that period was about tariffs.
“The biggest question was whether I really thought that Donald Trump would implement a 25% across the board tariff,” Cohen said in an interview with NBC10’s Battleground Politics with Lauren Mayk.
A 25% tariff on goods from Canada went into effect on Tuesday under the Trump administration. President Trump has said he wants Canada and Mexico to address fentanyl trafficking and immigration issues. Canada has said it would impose its own tariff on U.S. goods.
Cohen, who served as ambassador to Canada during the Biden administration, said he’s not opposed to tariffs and respects the president’s prerogative to set his own foreign policy, but questioned the approach in this case, saying the amount of fentanyl coming from Canada is small.
“I view it as …