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While the sky has yet to fall on NAFTA, it’s getting close.

As our prime minister was tootling around touting the progressive programs he unveiled in last week’s gender-parity budget, U.S. President Donald Trump was tossing lightning bolts.

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The man with the orange backcomb was creating some ugly climate change on the trade front while Justin Trudeau claimed Friday to have spoken directly to the president and seemed certain his Liberal “sunny ways” would evade the storm clouds.

As our PM told the media, Trump’s tariffs are “unacceptable” and his decision to impose penalties “makes no sense.”

The problem with Trudeau, however, is that he has no Plan B to deal with the “unacceptable” and the nonsensical.

Tuesday’s budget was proof of that.

Trump plans to put his signature this week to his threat to impose heavy tariffs on steel and aluminum, the combination of which represents approximately $15 billion in Canadian trade with the U.S.