For decades, Minnesotans and Canadians have been friends and trading partners, easily moving and trading across our shared border. But President Donald Trump’s tariff policies and calls for Canada to become the United States’ 51st state have raised questions about Minnesotans relationship with our neighbors to the north.
MPR News host Angela Davis and MPR News senior economics contributor Chris Farrell headed to Thunder Bay, Ontario to hear how people who live near the Minnesota-Canada border feel about tariffs and their impact on the relationship between our countries.
Their special “Our Canada Connections” airs Monday at 9 a.m.
Davis and Farrell joined Minnesota Now to share some of what they heard.
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