Then enact a tariff. This is simply a dishonest tariff that tries to bury and hide costs. It's a tariff that you know opposition parties will have no trouble mu

Then enact a tariff. This is simply a dishonest tariff that tries to bury and hide costs. It's a tariff that you know opposition parties will have no trouble mustering democratic support in killing if it was made plain. "Politics is hard" because it turns out when you sell a tariff as something other than a tariff, it's easier to pass! Who would have thought? I should have added another sentence to my original comment: it's not fair to citizens whose democratic choice is being subverted through deliberate misrepresentation to protect an unpopular agenda. The US has a grant for the arts, it's called the National Endowment for the Arts. Didn't need to misrepresent it to their citizens to keep it for more than 50 years. Sounds like if you really valued the arts in Canada you'd have no trouble getting your government to fund the arts too. But sure, perhaps Canada's bad position in vaccine supply justifies unfairly penalizing foreign media. When I grew up, I learnt in school that one wrong justifies another. But why even bother arguing about fairness. After all, "Canada is the market that it is - it's your decision as a business to voluntarily enter that market", so anything Canada does is justified.