An associate professor at Carleton University’s Sprott’s School of Business is echoing the same shock and disbelief expressed by others over the reasoning behind Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canadian products.

Ian Lee told The Tim Powers Show on VOCM that Americans will start feeling the impact.

“What he’s doing is so destructive economically, and this has been studied to death by economists since Adam Smith. Nobel Prizes have been given out on this showing the advantages of free trade. The Bretton Woods post-war architecture of 1945 was set up and it created GATT, which became the WTO because we knew that freer trade, liberalized trade led to increases in the standard of living. So this is just purely negative, and destructive.”