# How to lose Trump’s trade war: threaten Canada over hockey sticks

https://mins.news/en/item/33488

- The Guardian, 2026-08-26 18:15 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/26/trump-canada-trade-war

> Donald Trump expected Canada to yield to US tariff demands, but failed talks led Ottawa to impose retaliatory tariffs on about $20bn of American goods. Trump called Canada “difficult and unreasonable”, threatened to rename Lake Ontario “Lake America” and insulted Canadian officials, while the dispute pushed up US consumer prices.

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