@true.north.report: 🇨🇦🇺🇸 "Americans get it. Tariffs have made their lives more expensive." That's U.S. labour economist Kathryn Anne Edwards, speaking to CBC News days before Tuesday's midterm elections. "Only three times since the 1970s have more than half of Americans said their government's doing bad job managing the economy. Right now it's at 74 per cent," she said. The University of Michigan's consumer sentiment index is now lower than during the 2008-09 financial crisis. U.S. inflation has ticked up to 3.7 per cent. And the New York Federal Reserve found that by February 2026, tariffs had added 2.9 percentage points to goods price inflation. Without them, the researchers wrote, "goods prices would have fallen slightly." Trump's trade war was supposed to hurt Canada. Americans are paying for it at the checkout. Will the midterms finally push Washington to drop the tariffs? 🇨🇦

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