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U.S. bans Canadian imports as trade war continues · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: Here's Morning Live host David Common on what you need
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  Speaker 1: to know about the Trump administration's latest escalation in the
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  Speaker 1: trade war.
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  Speaker 2: Neither country has gone this far in the trade war,
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  Speaker 2: that is until today. So Canadian alcohol, dairy, motorcycles, molasses
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  Speaker 2: and whey products can no longer enter the United States.
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  Speaker 3: They decided that tariffs weren't enough. They wanted to ratchet
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  Speaker 3: it up to a ban.
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  Speaker 1: Bans are really hard to get off.
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  Speaker 2: Alcohol makers will take the biggest hit by far. The
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  Speaker 2: Trump administration defending this by pointing to the 8 out
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  Speaker 2: of 10 Canadian provinces that pulled U.S. booze off their
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  Speaker 2: shelves 18 months ago. One of the businesses being hit today?
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  Speaker 2: Moosehead Beer.
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  Speaker 4: If this ban goes on for an extended period, we
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  Speaker 4: are basically going to have to start from scratch in terms.
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  Speaker 1: Of the U.S.
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  Speaker 2: And that's going to take time, money and effort to rebuild.
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  Speaker 2: Consider Canada's Crown Royal. It sells more product to Texas
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  Speaker 2: than to all of Canada. Now American store shelves, they're
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  Speaker 2: going to be replaced by something else. It will disproportionately
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  Speaker 2: impact businesses in Ontario. Buy a long shot, Quebec coming
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  Speaker 2: in second. Though on the scale of the entire Canadian economy,
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  Speaker 2: this is actually the smallest of all of the hits
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  Speaker 2: from the White House by dollar value.
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  Speaker 1: That's Morning Live host David Common. As of 12.01 a.m. Eastern,
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  Speaker 1: some Canadian products, including dairy, motorcycles and booze, can no
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  Speaker 1: longer cross the border. Yet Donald Trump says he believes
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  Speaker 1: a deal can be struck in the coming weeks. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: as we heard from Rafi, the Carney government is looking
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  Speaker 1: for major projects and investment to grow the Canadian economy.
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  Speaker 1: Let's bring in the CBC's J.P. Tasker in Washington. So, J.P., first,
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  Speaker 1: walk us through what the Trump administration's strategy is right now.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, the Trump administration is moving to inflict even more
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  Speaker 4: economic pain on Canada by imposing import bans. That's a
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  Speaker 4: new maneuver for the president. Of course, his preferred tool
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  Speaker 4: is tariffs, as we all know well. Now, he's outright
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  Speaker 4: banning a list of Canadian-made products. Motorcycles, molasses, cheese byproducts
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  Speaker 4: like whey are being blocked, among other items that will
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  Speaker 4: be entirely prohibited from crossing the 49th parallel as of today.
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  Speaker 4: But it's the U.S. restrictions on Canadian alcohol that will
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  Speaker 4: be the most damaging overall to the economy. Canada shipped
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  Speaker 4: about $ 1. 2 billion worth of liquor to the states last year,
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  Speaker 4: according to StatsCan data. The vast majority of that product
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  Speaker 4: comes from Ontario. The administration has set its sights on
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  Speaker 4: Premier Doug Ford's province for obvious reasons. I think there's
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  Speaker 4: some bad blood, some bilateral bad blood between the two leaders.
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  Speaker 4: Here's how the president explained why he's targeting Canada. Have
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  Speaker 4: a listen.
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  Speaker 3: And they feel entitled. They're not a state. There's nothing
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  Speaker 3: they have that we need. We have more energy than
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  Speaker 3: they have. We have all the lumber you could possibly use.
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  Speaker 3: We have everything we have we don't need. And they
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  Speaker 3: have to treat our country with respect. They've been very,
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  Speaker 3: very bad to our farmers in particular.
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  Speaker 4: Of course, the president's claim that he doesn't need anything
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  Speaker 4: from Canada is bogus. Canada exported more than 4 million
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  Speaker 4: barrels of oil last year. feeding Midwest refineries entirely dependent
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  Speaker 4: on Canadian oil. Then there's, of course, potash, Andrew. Canada
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  Speaker 4: exported 12 million tons of that to the U.S. last year.
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  Speaker 4: So really, what's going on here is Trump wants some
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  Speaker 4: retribution against Canada for banning alcohol. He's not happy that
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  Speaker 4: so many provinces have left it off the shelves. And
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  Speaker 4: so he's going to make Canadian breweries, wineries, distilleries pay
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  Speaker 4: a very steep price.
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  Speaker 1: Is there any talk of a resolution?
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  Speaker 4: No, not really, Andrew. I mean, Canada U.S. Trade Minister
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  Speaker 4: Dominic LeBlanc says, Dominic LeBlanc, you know, he says that
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  Speaker 4: they're not desperate for a deal with the Americans right now.
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  Speaker 4: He doesn't feel like they need to go cap in
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  Speaker 4: hand to Washington right now trying to get the Americans
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  Speaker 4: to sign on to something. The feds don't want to
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  Speaker 4: settle for what they're calling a bad deal, even if
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  Speaker 4: it means living with these tariffs and these import bans
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  Speaker 4: for a little while longer. U.S. Trade Representative Jameson Greer
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  Speaker 4: also says that the administration is comfortable with the state
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  Speaker 4: of the relationship as it is now with Canada. They're
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  Speaker 4: not itching to get a deal anytime soon, if we're
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  Speaker 4: to believe some of their public rhetoric. But the President
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  Speaker 4: suggested that maybe the Prime Minister, Mark Carney, and his
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  Speaker 4: team will be calling for a deal soon. Have a listen.
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  Speaker 3: Over the next three or four weeks, they're going to
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  Speaker 3: come to us and they're going to say, we're going to.
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  Speaker 5: Get rid of all the tariffs. We're going to win everything.
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  Speaker 5: We even have Lake Ontario is now Lake America. They're
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  Speaker 5: going to come in, and they're going to say, sir,
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  Speaker 5: we are sorry.
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  Speaker 3: They've treated the United States very, very badly. I think
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  Speaker 3: a deal will be made, but it's got to be
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  Speaker 3: a fair deal.
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  Speaker 4: The problem is, of course, Andrew, what does the president
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  Speaker 4: mean by a fair deal? I mean, the terms of
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  Speaker 4: the last deal were supposed to be fair. That didn't
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  Speaker 4: work out so well for Canada, right? There were serious
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  Speaker 4: concerns about sovereignty. The language in that deal just didn't
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  Speaker 4: work for Canada. So it could be a while before
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  Speaker 4: the prime minister sees something that he can live with. Andrew?
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  Speaker 1: I don't think anyone's going to be apologizing to the U.S.
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  Speaker 1: president about all this anytime soon. J.P., thank you. CBC's J.P. Tasker,
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  Speaker 1: live in Washington.