{"id":58979,"date":"2025-04-04T16:08:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T20:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=58979"},"modified":"2025-04-04T16:08:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T20:08:10","slug":"leveling-the-playing-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=58979","title":{"rendered":"Leveling The Playing Field"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Wednesday, Townhall<\/a> posted an article about one result of President Trump’s tariffs.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Ontario Premier Doug Ford on Wednesday suggested that Canada would drop its tariffs on U.S. goods if President Donald Trump eased up on his tariffs on Canadian goods.<\/strong><\/p>\n

During an appearance with CNBC\u2019s Ross Sorkin, he stated that the impending tariff war is \u201cjust going to hurt American jobs\u201d and that Trump \u201csaid he was going to create jobs, create wealth, reduce inflation.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sorkin asked whether Ford believed it was fair that Canada has \u201ctariffs on a whole number of products.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ford replied, \u201cAnd we\u2019d be willing to take those off tomorrow if he took all the tariffs off\u201d and suggested that \u201cChina is the problem.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The host asked why Canada wouldn\u2019t have these negotiations before Trump imposed his tariffs.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The premier responded:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well, we’ve had this conversation for over the last month. We don’t want tariffs. We have another $65 billion dollars with a tariff to launch today. That’s the last thing we want to do because it’s just, again, it’s going to hurt both countries. It’s going to hurt American workers. That’s the last thing I want.<\/strong><\/p>\n

That statement is a very diplomatic way of saying nothing.<\/p>\n

America has been paying tariffs on its exports to other countries for years. It is not unreasonable to expect that at some point the playing field would be made more level. It is not up to us to bankroll the rest of the world by letting other countries impose tariffs on us without imposing tariffs on them. I suspect that President Trump’s tariffs are not yet set in stone and are still in the negotiating stage. We do need to put tariffs on other countries, but the final details may be different from what we are currently hearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Wednesday, Townhall posted an article about one result of President Trump’s tariffs. The article reports: Ontario Premier Doug Ford on Wednesday suggested that Canada would drop its tariffs on U.S. goods if President Donald Trump eased up on his … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1225,253,17878,10589,11742,11619],"class_list":["post-58979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-canada","tag-china","tag-ontario-premier-doug-ford","tag-president-trump","tag-tariffs","tag-townhall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58983,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58979\/revisions\/58983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}