I think some here are severely downplaying Canada's role in our economy.

I mean, there are a ton of topics, but just to quickly name a couple:

Alcohol: the LCBO alone is one of the world's largest purchasers of alcohol. They just stopped importing and even removed all US alcohol from their shelves. Manufacturers like Jack Daniels are panicking saying this is worse than the tarriffs.

Oil: believe it or not,, much of the oil the US refines and uses is imported, mainly from Canada. Most of the oil that we pump, we export it and sell it to various countries. We have no choice.

Do you know why that is? A majority of the oil the US pumps is now light sweet crude. This has been the case for the last 20 years or so.

In the decades before, we used to mainly pump heavy sour crude. The kicker is, most of the US refineries can only refine the heavy crude. Refineries overseas are built to process light sweet crude, so they buy it and we export it to them.

You're probably thinking, ok let's just build new refineries. Yeah, good luck with that.

This is why some people scratch their head wondering why we export oil and at the same time import oil.