U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening Canada with 100 per cent tariffs over its new trade deal with China.
Referring to Prime Minister Mark Carney as “governor,” his old insult for former prime minister Justin Trudeau, the president’s social media post Saturday morning says if Carney thinks Canada can become a “drop off port” for China to send products into the U.S., he’s “sorely mistaken.”
The president says if Canada makes a deal with China he will impose 100 per cent tariffs on all Canadian products entering the U.S.
Most Canadian goods are shipped to the U.S. without tariffs under a free trade agreement and it was not immediately clear if Trump’s new tariffs would apply to those products.
Earlier this month Carney committed to drop Canada’s 100 per cent tariff on Chinese-made electric vehicles in exchange for tariff reductions on Canadian agricultural products including lobsters, crabs and canola.
The president’s threat comes after Carney delivered a headline-grabbing speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that did not mention Trump by name but was seen as a strong rebuke of his foreign policies, including the weaponization of tariffs.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 24, 2026.
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