The new levies on cars and light trucks will take effect on April 3, the day after Trump plans to announce reciprocal tariffs aimed at the countries responsible for the bulk of the U.S. trade deficit.

Point Roberts, Washington, is the rare U.S. exclave so dependent on Canada’s goodwill that the strain of Trump’s tariff war is inescapable.

But as they gear up to head to the polls on April 28 in a snap federal election, the focus for Canadians in border towns and elsewhere is increasingly their complicated relationship with their neighbors. As long as there’s a trade war, Trump will be the ballot question.