Canada Matches US 50% Tariffs Dollar-for-Dollar as Trade Talks Collapse

After eighteen months of negotiation, Canada and the United States have arrived at a familiar crossroads in the long history of neighboring nations learning the limits of partnership. When Washington moved to impose fifty percent tariffs on roughly twenty-eight billion Canadian dollars in goods — invoking a Depression-era trade law — Ottawa chose symmetry over submission, matching the duties dollar for dollar and suspending talks entirely. The rupture is not merely a trade dispute but a signal that Canada is reckoning with a deeper truth: that the architecture of North American interdependence