Ontario Premier Doug Ford is pressuring Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney to ramp up tariffs against the United States after President Trump doubled tariffs on steel and aluminum earlier this week.

“I highly recommended to the prime minister directly that we slap another 25 percent on top of our tariffs to equal President Trump's tariffs on our steel,” Ford said during a Wednesday appearance on CNN’s “Situation Room.”

“He has to, he has to start looking around the world at China and other locations that are taking Chinese steel and really stop the flow of steel. That's the problem,” Ford told host Wolf Blitzer. “Canada is not the problem. Again, we purchased $30 billion, with a 'B,' of steel off the U.S., and that's going to come to an end real quick.”

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