Trump takes trade war with Canada to ice

The TOI correspondent from Washington: US-Canada ties hit the ice on Tuesday after MAGA boss Donald Trump threatened to shut Canadian aircraft maker Bombardier out of the American market unless it moves production to the US and Ottawa began imposing retaliatory tariffs ranging from 15% to 50% on about $20 billion of U.S. goods after Washington imposed comparable tariffs on Canadian products.The sharp escalation in a trade war between two countries that once prided themselves on having the world's least dramatic border was accompanied by bizarre theatrics from Washington, where Trump supporters reveled in memes showing the US President beating up Canadian PM Mark Carney in a hockey rink.The violent meme, an animated version of the Trump post showing him towering over Carney with the caption “GET UP, GOVERNOR” -- a jab tied to his insistence that Canada would be better off as America’s 51st state -- outraged many commentators…