Nobody wins in a trade war. I wonder if Trump will look back on this later and ask, like he did about the civil war,  if it could have been avoided and if anyone, other than himself had ever posed the rhetorical question of "why did it happen?"

Trump doesn't know history or understand economics, and has no grasp at all about global trade. He has only the tiniest shred of knowledge, but he is proof positive that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

I really wish the Americans hadn't elected him, but they did and we're dealing with it. They say Hillary might have still played hard-ball on the softwood lumber issue, but at least she was a professional politician, and a knowledgeable and rational individual. 

I really wish our government luck, and I stand firmly behind them. They have a very tough job and we have to make sure that we demonstrate our support for them, regardless of our ideologies, partisanship, or whatever colour jersey you're wearing at the moment.