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Seems pretty intellectually dishonest to cherry-pick specific products rather than look at tariff rates as a whole. What's your justification for that?

The World Bank's 2021 data shows that Canada has a 2.35% mean tariff rate weighted across all products, vs 1.47% for the United States.

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The United States is an agricultural giant. Seems reasonable to start there?

But I think you're the one being intellectually dishonest by hiding behind these aggregates. The only reason why Canada's tariffs rates are so low is because no trading partner is actually paying their 160-300% tariffs. Canada has been the subject of numerous WTO disputes by numerous nations for their tariff policies, the United States is far from unique in this regard.

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