WRITTEN IN PENCIL: Trade talks between Canada and the US broke down over the weekend triggering stiff new tariffs on Canadian goods, causing Prime Minister Mark Carney to say Canada is “at war” with the United States and that his country will retaliate “dollar for dollar.”

  Carney said he suspended talks because the American negotiators  introduced last-minute terms that were “unfair, uneconomic and called into question the reliability of any deal.” He followed that with a speech saying, “We’ve recognized from the start that America has changed. We recognize that sometimes, its signature is written in pencil.”

  The collapse came Friday only hours after President Trump claimed a deal was close. Then yesterday he posted on his social media that, “Canada wants the benefits of being a State, without being one!!!”