WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump singled out Bombardier in a threat to decertify and tariff Canadian-made aircraft.
In a post on social media Thursday evening, Trump alleged that “Canada has wrongfully, illegally, and steadfastly refused to certify the Gulfstream 500, 600, 700, and 800 Jets.”
“We are hereby decertifying their Bombardier Global Expresses, and all Aircraft made in Canada, until such time as Gulfstream, a Great American Company, is fully certified, as it should have been many years ago,” Trump said.
The president said if “this situation is not immediately corrected” he will put a 50 per cent tariff on Canadian aircraft sold in the United States.
Canada has re-emerged as a target of Trump’s anger since Prime Minister Mark Carney gave a widely praised speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
In his Jan. 20 speech at the WEF, Carney warned that the old world order is dead and urged middle powers to band together as larger ones try to pressure them through economic coercion.
Trump responded in his own WEF speech, saying Carney was not grateful and later withdrew an invitation to Canada to join his controversial “Board of Peace.”
The president’s anger escalated Saturday when Trump threatened 100 per cent tariffs on Canada over Ottawa’s limited deal with China around electric vehicles and agriculture. Trump, in a social media post, called Carney a “governor.”
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent later said those tariffs would only be applied if Canada signed a free-trade agreement with China, which Carney has said Ottawa has no intention of doing.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 29, 2026.
Kelly Geraldine Malone, The Canadian Press
