{"id":183569,"date":"2026-08-26T06:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T06:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/183569\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T06:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T06:46:12","slug":"canadian-premier-has-2-ideas-to-hit-back-at-trump-f-35s-and-coal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/183569\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Premier Has 2 Ideas to Hit Back at Trump: F-35s and Coal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canada should broaden its response to its trade war<\/a> with the US by going beyond tariffs and targeting fighter jets and coal, said a Canadian premier.<\/p>\n

“I am encouraging the prime minister to look at non-tariff measures to respond, as well, to what the Americans are trying to do to Canadians,” British Columbia Premier David Eby said at a press conference on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

One potential target: Canada’s planned purchase of American F-35 fighter jets.<\/p>\n

“When your friend kicks you in the back, one of the first rules is you don’t then go and buy $12 billion of fighter jets from that person,” said Eby at a press conference on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Canada had planned to acquire 88 F-35s from US defense giant Lockheed Martin, but Carney put the procurement under review shortly after taking office in March 2025.<\/p>\n

Eby’s other potential pressure point is American thermal coal.<\/p>\n

American thermal coal is shipped through British Columbia to the Westshore terminal near Vancouver, a key export route for US coal producers.<\/p>\n

Eby said Ottawa should consider additional export tariffs or taxes on those shipments.<\/p>\n

“We should be having a public discussion,” he said. “Should we be buying those fighter jets from the United States? In my opinion, the answer is absolutely not.”<\/p>\n

The proposals come as the US-Canada trade relationship deteriorates sharply.<\/p>\n

Canada is one of the US’s largest trading partners, with about $870 billion in goods and services<\/a> traded between the two countries in 2025.<\/p>\n

Trade negotiations broke down last week, and new 50% US tariffs on about $20 billion of Canadian imports took effect Saturday. On Monday, Trump also said that tariffs on Canadian vehicles, auto parts, and steel would rise to 50% on January 1.<\/p>\n

Canada plans dollar-for-dollar retaliation<\/a> beginning September 8. On Tuesday, Finance Minister Fran\u00e7ois-Philippe Champagne announced tariffs on 27.6 billion Canadian dollars, or about $20 billion, of US imports, including steel, fish, dairy, and electronics.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Carney has highlighted areas where Washington relies on Canada.<\/p>\n

On Monday, while announcing an $8.2 billion contract for six Canadian Coast Guard icebreakers, Carney pointed to the vessels<\/a> as an example of one of the “many, many, many things” the US needs from Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada should broaden its response to its trade war with the US by going beyond tariffs and targeting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[57923,17,57921,735,11211,23340,57922,25608,57924,4123,6410,6339,28,27082,57920],"class_list":["post-183569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-american-thermal-coal","tag-canada","tag-canadian-premier","tag-carney","tag-coal","tag-eby","tag-f-35s","tag-monday","tag-other-potential-pressure-point","tag-press-conference","tag-steel","tag-tariff","tag-trump","tag-tuesday","tag-us-fighter-jet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}