Escalating his war of words against U.S. tariffs on Canada, Premier Doug Ford says President Donald Trump “wants to hurt the American people — and that’s exactly what he’s doing.”

Ford told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Thursday that Trump’s levies on imported goods are raising prices for Americans and costing them jobs.

“You’ve seen the study from Yale, it’s going to cost Americans $2,400 (per household) and manufacturing employment in the U.S.,” said the premier, referring to new estimates by the non-partisan Budget Lab at Yale University .

The Ivy League lab found the average overall tariff rate stateside is now 18.6 per cent, the highest since 1933. In contrast, average tariffs in the U.S. were around two per cent when former president Joe Biden left office in January.

Yale concluded

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