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This Week's Round-Up: August 17, 2026 |
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The tariff war has cost US border towns thousands of jobs, and the damage will be hard to undo
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Trade analysts have primarily focused on the price effects of tariffs and their pass-through to US manufacturers, grocery shelves, and car lots. That focus is warranted. But it misses where the cost landed first and most directly: the towns along the US–Canada border, where Canadian visitors had long been the economic base.
Estimates are that the drop in Canadian visitors cost US border communities between 10,000 and 30,000 leisure and hospitality jobs, with associated earnings losses of $0.5 to $1 billion per year. Essentially, for every dollar collected in tariff revenue on Canadian goods—roughly $9.9 billion over the sample period—US border workers absorbed between five and ten cents in lost wages.
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Base Impact
I sympathize with the reaction of Greenlanders to Donald Trump’s clumsy attempts to take over Greenland—and with writer Brett Popplewell’s anti-colonial attitude in his cover story “I Went to Greenland and Saw a Warning for Canada” (June). But the 1951 agreement between Denmark and the United States allowing Americans to create or operate military bases as needed was about the defence of NATO member states. I worked at Thule Air Base (now Pituffik Space Base) in 1956 and ’57. The shortest flight path for nuclear missiles between Russia or China and the US goes right over northern Greenland. And while Canada may be having a lot of difficulties dealing with the US right now, the US, Canada, and the Kingdom of Denmark—as well as other NATO member states—understand that Russia especially is not a friendly neighbour these days and that an integrated North American defence is still essential.
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George King
Hudson, QC
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