Kevin Boon 🇨🇦

🇨🇦🇺🇸 The irony is remarkable. After months of punishing Canadian aluminum with 50% tariffs, the U.S. aluminum industry is now calling for a coordinated North American tariff strategy. Perhaps we’re finally recognizing what should have been obvious all along. North America is an integrated manufacturing economy, not three competing islands. Canada supplies the aluminum, the U.S. provides enormous manufacturing capacity, and Mexico is a critical part of our industrial supply chains. We should be working together to address unfairly subsidized global production, not taxing each other’s industries into submission. But harmonization cannot simply mean Canada and Mexico adopting American tariffs while Washington maintains its own barriers. Free trade within North America. Coordinated enforcement against unfair trade outside it. That’s how you build a competitive continental economy. CUSMA should be the vehicle for cooperation, not another casualty of a pointless tariff war. 🌎 Stop fighting ourselves. Start competing together. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… #CUSMA #USMCA #Trade #Aluminum #Tariffs

North America needs to stop doing economic harm to itself. 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇲🇽 Our relationship deserves more than the simplistic argument that Canada and Mexico must accept Washington’s demands or lose access to American consumers. 🇨🇦 Sovereignty matters. “51st state” rhetoric cannot be brushed aside while Canadians are lectured about respecting American interests. Partnership requires mutual respect. 🌎 Trading with China is a reality for every major economy. Reducing dependence takes time, investment and alternatives. Washington cannot reasonably describe its own dealings with Beijing as pragmatic while treating its neighbours’ trade as disloyal. 🤝 Reciprocity matters. Every country has workers, industries and interests to protect. Pressure your partners to find other customers, and they will. Objecting when they do only reinforces the need to diversify. 💡 Here’s my proposed path forward: Remove tariffs on trade between our three countries, with a negotiated framework for sensitive sectors. For steel and aluminum, replace blanket tariffs with agreed tariff-free cross-border volume allowances tied to production capacity and regional demand. Apply graduated tariffs only above those thresholds. Set transparent rules, verify North American origin and review the allowances regularly. That gives producers protection against sudden import surges while giving manufacturers predictable access to the materials they need. Businesses should know the rules before they price a contract, expand a plant or hire workers. Alongside that, negotiate a revised Article 32.10 with clearly defined safeguards for mutually agreed strategic or protected sectors. Address legitimate concerns about outside supply chains and circumvention through specific, reciprocal obligations. Diversification and a strong continental partnership can coexist. We should strengthen our collective competitiveness instead of making our workers and manufacturers absorb the cost of political contradictions. @MarkJCarney @PierrePoilievre @realDonaldTrump @jamiesongreer @Claudiashein @m_ebrard — there is room for a practical agreement that respects sovereignty, protects sensitive industries and gives businesses certainty. Respect sovereignty. Protect shared interests. Compete together. 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇲🇽