To be clear, Canada trying to impose economic sanctions on the United States is a horrible idea that would almost certainly prompt devastating countermeasures. Try refreshing your browser, or Upset over the Keystone XL cancellation? Here’s how we could screw over the Americans Back to videoBut if we want to start an inadvisable rage-fuelled trade war anyway, here’s how to cause the most immediate damage. Canada could inflict critical brownouts on Minnesota, Michigan, Vermont and parts of upstate New York, among others. A particularly spiteful detail of this measure — particularly in the wake of the environmentalist underpinnings of the Keystone XL cancellation — would be that it would shut off mostly clean hydroelectric power while forcing the U.S. to compensate with increased burning of coal and gas.

Source: National Post January 26, 2021 10:52 UTC