“It seems that nothing Canada has tried so far has shielded it from the threats of Donald Trump,” Bloomberg reports.
“Barely a week after Trump and Prime Minister Mark Carney restarted trade talks, with Canada targeting an agreement by July 21, Trump published a new broadside on one of the US’s largest trading partners, threatening a 35% tariff.”
New York Times: Trump threatens higher tariffs on Canada in the middle of trade talks.
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Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.
Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.
Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
Goddard is the owner of Goddard Media LLC.