{"id":27655,"date":"2025-05-13T09:00:27","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T09:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=27655"},"modified":"2025-05-13T09:25:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T09:25:03","slug":"how-the-columbia-river-treaty-got-tangled-in-trumps-feud-with-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=27655","title":{"rendered":"How the Columbia River Treaty Got Tangled in Trump\u2019s Feud With Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Caught up in the tariff spat between the United States and Canada is a little-known treaty that shapes the lives of millions of Americans and Canadians.<\/p>\n

The 60-year-old treaty governs the water rushing down the Columbia River, which snakes from British Columbia through Montana, Idaho, Washington and Oregon, and provides the single largest source of hydropower in the United States. But parts of the treaty expired around the U.S. presidential election.<\/p>\n

Negotiators were still weeks away from completing the details of an updated version of the treaty when President Joseph R. Biden Jr.\u2019s term ended. Then a decade of talks crashed into President Trump\u2019s hostility toward Canada. He called Canada the \u201c51st state,\u201d slapped tariffs on Canadian exports and fixated on tapping its water as a \u201cvery big faucet.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In a contentious call<\/a> in February with Canada\u2019s prime minister at the time, Justin Trudeau, Mr. Trump included the treaty among the ways he said Canada had taken advantage of the United States. The implication was clear: The treaty could become a bargaining chip in a broader negotiation to remake the relationship between the two counties.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Columbia River Basin has dozens of dams that produce electricity, providing the single largest source of hydropower in the United States. Four additional dams were built as a result of a 60-year-old treaty to provide flood control downstream in America.<\/p>\n<\/header>\n

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