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After a 50 per cent tariff, Canadian shipments to Europe nearly quadrupled, while American buyers now pay about 80 per cent above the world price for a metal the United States cannot produce enough of. Buy a can of beer in the United States, and you are holding some of the most expensive aluminum on…

LNG Canada is expanding to 28 million tonnes a year, Ottawa’s new budget is backing it, and a Blackstone-led group with four Canadian pension funds just committed US$3.1 billion. Every new tonne is aimed across the Pacific. In January 2025, as he prepared to hit Canada with tariffs, Donald Trump told the world what he…