02-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Edmonton Journal
'Disproportionately punish Canadians': Book industry worries about the possibility of tariffs in trade war
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Thousands of Canadian authors have dreamed of the success of blockbuster Canadian author Louise Penny, whose internationally beloved Inspector Gamache books are indisputably Canadian content, set in the made-up, quirky Quebec hamlet of Three Pines.
But where a Canadian story is imagined, written, agented, printed, published, and promoted for maximum international market impact — these elements can be inextricably interwoven, even more so than a Chevy's various border-crossing automotive bits and parts — and impossible to reduce to the strict simplicity of a tariff.