Prime Minister Mark Carney and U.S. President Donald Trump meet in the White House in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, May 6, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
Canadians are showing a lot of enthusiasm for retaliation against the U.S. over President Donald Trump’s tariffs — even as many of them fear that the country has slid into a recession already.
A new Leger poll suggests a majority of Canadians — 67 per cent — are in favour of “dollar-for-dollar” retaliatory tariffs, and a third of them strongly endorse retaliation.
But Canada has largely sought to de-escalate and to limit the economic damage from Trump’s trade war with much of the world.
“Even though the sentiment is … let’s do something back, I think the reality has struck the decision makers in government to say, ‘Let’s go a little bit more measured and let’s dilute it,’” said Tony Stillo, head economist for …