How about zero?

That's what Louisiana Republican Senator John Kennedy suggests, that Canada remove tariffs for all US products imported into Canada.  Zero tariffs.  

The wise and wily Senator Kennedy.  Catch him on YouTube.

Revolutionary?  Crazy?  Of course.  The main sticking point for Trump are the ridiculous dairy and egg marketing boards -- mainly in vote-rich Quebec -- that prevent US product into the Canadian market by imposing 200 and 300 percent tariffs on foreign imports of those commodities.  Will the next PM get rid of those trade barriers?  Don't make me laugh.

But Kennedy argues that Trump would have to drop those levied against Canada in response.  A great fan of Canada, Kennedy thinks it might work.  You know, it just might.  "I called Prime Minister Carney and suggested it to him personally," he said.  Wouldn't it have been great to have been on a party line for that conversation!

Naturally, Carney will never do it, because he thinks he is the smartest-guy-in-any-room-on-any-call-anytime-anywhere, but I think it would be worth a try.  Hey, but what do I know?  However, I do know human nature, am a very good judge of personality and character and my gut tells me it would be worth a try.  It would certainly shock and disarm Trump and throw a wrench into his plans.  So far, the only Canadian leader who has had any effect on Trump is our premier, Danielle Smith.  Thank G-d for her!

A word about Carney's campaign.  I cannot fathom why he included Freeland, Sean Fraser, Stephen Guilbeault and Anita Anand in his cabinet.  Those moves tell me he is not nearly ruthless enough for street politics.  He still thinks he is in the velvet boardrooms of polite bankers.  Here's a bulletin, Mark:  You're in the street fight of your life and so far, you're dropping. 

Freeland's problem is she is a know-it-all; Guilbeault's is he's a green fanatic, a felon who destroyed our economy.  And as for Anand and Fraser?  They had declared they weren't running again because they saw the doomed writing on the wall.  But the minute they saw Carney's fortunes start to ascend, they jumped back in, eager to stick their noses back into the public trough.

Obviously, they have no principles.

A word about Elon Musk.  When NASA couldn't rescue those two astronauts who were stranded in space, who brought them back?  Elon Musk.  NASA, with all its money and might, couldn't do it, they were left floating in peril for almost a year.  That was appalling and inexcusable.  So, to everyone who thinks Musk is a lunatic, think about that for a minute before you dump all over him.