President Trump’s threat to impose 25 per cent tariffs on American imports from Canada is not appropriately answered with Justin Trudeau’s booster-ish nonsense about Team Canada. To judge from what the president published, his complaint is with drugs being illegally transmitted from this country to the United States, and 19,000 illegal entries of people from Canada in the last year. It is generally the task of the country that does not wish these imports and people to stop them at their own border. We’re not East Germany building walls to keep our people in, or Mexico, facilitating an outright invasion of the United States by millions of destitute migrants. Trump could not possibly be suggesting that the government of Canada approves or condones for an instant any trafficking of illicit drugs or violation of the rules of entry to any country. It is outrageous that we should be assimilated to Mexico in these matters.