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Canadian officials are panicking about President Donald Trump’s tariffs, and they want motorists in Michigan and 11 other states to feel the same way.
Canadian foreign minister Melanie Joly told CNN highway billboards Canada paid to put up in Michigan and other states “send a message to the American people for them to understand what’s at stake, because this is going to hurt their livelihoods and have an impact on their wallets.”
In states that voted for Trump or border the country’s northern neighbor, the government is spending thousands to purchase what Lamar Advertising manager Richard Rickert described to the Detroit Free Press as “remnant space,” or unused inventory.
The message: “Tariffs are a tax at the gas pump.”
The billboards started going up when Trump threatened a 25% tariff on imports from Canada and Mexico in February. Those tariffs went into effect last month, and Canada was not included in additional tariffs imposed on a goods from more than 100 countries last week.
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