Including Canada in the U.S. plan to slap 25 per cent tariffs on aluminum and steel “would be entirely unjustified,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday in Paris. (The Logic)

Talking point: “Canadians will stand up strongly and firmly if we need to,” Trudeau said when asked about dollar-for-dollar retaliatory tariffs on U.S. aluminum and steel, while noting that he still hopes to avoid them. CBC reported Trudeau told Vice-President J.D. Vance that tariffs would harm his home state of Ohio, which exports US$21.4 billion in goods to Canada annually. Ottawa halted its retaliatory plan, which would have included tariffs on U.S. household appliances—which federal officials said would hit Ohio—and steel and aluminum products later, after President Donald Trump extended a 30-day reprieve. Meanwhile, the head of the European Union said U.S. tariffs on its steel and aluminum “will trigger firm and proportionate countermeasures.”