Businesses on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border are struggling. And it's not just tariffs. It's the vast new compliance requirements they have to meet, and the bureaucracy which is just as confused as the businesses. That's costing time and money when businesses can ill afford to lose either.

The central plank of the federal government's position is that Canada has secured sweeping exemptions to the U.S. tariffs for the vast majority of products.

"Canada currently has the best deal of any of the United States' trading partners in the world — 85 per cent of our trade with the United States has no tariffs," said Prime Minister Mark Carney this week, adding that Canada has the lowest tariff rate of any country in the world.

Don't tell that to Patrick Fulop. He went through the process o

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