‘Maximize The Pain’: Top Canadian Official Vows Brutal Tariff Response Against Americans | EUROtoday

Ontario Premier Doug Ford on Thursday hit again at U.S. President Donald Trump’s newly introduced 25% auto tariffs with a promise to “inflict as much pain as possible to the American people without inflicting pain on the Canadian population.”

Trump is mistaken in his perception that the transfer will drive down auto costs within the U.S., Ford instructed reporters. “The costs are going to go skyrocketing” and he’s “just hurting the American people,” Ford added, vowing that the nation will retaliate with tariffs designed to hit Americans.

“I can tell you we just aren’t going to roll over,” he mentioned. “We’re going to retaliate and he’s going to feel the pain from the American people.”

The “$65 billion of tariffs that we have on the table that we can launch towards the U.S., we have to run through every tariff and minimize the pain for Canadians, maximize the pain for Americans,” mentioned Ford. “I feel terrible for the Americans, but it’s one person, it’s President Trump, that’s creating this chaos.”

On X, previously Twitter, in the meantime, Ford slammed Trump ― who has repeatedly talked up the thought of turning Canada into the 51st U.S. state ― for being “at it again.”

Trump “will do nothing more than increase costs for hard-working American families,” Ford warned. “U.S. markets are already on the decline as the president causes more chaos and uncertainty. He’s putting American jobs at risk.”

“I’ve spoken with Prime Minister [Mark] Carney. We agree Canada needs to stand firm, strong and united,” he added. “I fully support the federal government preparing retaliatory tariffs to show that we’ll never back down.”