It may feel 'safer' to blame Prime Minister Carney and Canada for Trump's ever-changing whims, but that doesn't make it true. Ultimately, Trump wants to impose tariffs and is finding whatever excuse he needs to impose those tariffs. He feels unconstrained by past trade agreements - even the ones he signed - and believes he can create new deals even without buy-in from U.S. trading partners by announcing the imposition of tariffs and calling it a 'deal.'
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