COLLINS: Donald has it wrong — again
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I HAVE BEEN RACKING MY BRAIN the past couple of weeks, trying to make sense of Donald Trump’s tariff plans.
Donald is trying to intimidate Mexico and Canada by threatening heavy tariffs. Ostensibly, Trump wants its two neighbours to put more effort into fighting the border war as well as making a number of other commitments. Trump says Canada and Mexico are letting all the drugs and the cartel bosses through a border that is just too big for border guards to patrol.
At one point, the U.S. and Canadian governments were proud to say our border was the longest undefended border in the world. That’s not the case anymore.
But here’s the rub. If Donald wants the bad guys out of the U.S., why does it not fall on his government to resolve the problem instead of Mexico and Canada? We’re well aware of the drug crisis, but if we take the kind of approach Dr. Doom is taking, it’s just not going to work.
