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IrelandEl-Sayed urges an end to U.S. tariffs on Canada
CTV News puts Michigan's senator-elect at the center of its report on whether Democratic gains can bring relief across the border.
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Story of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 137,252 views a day, 69 times a normal first day on this channel (1,988).
Will a Democratic majority in Congress help end the Canada-U.S. trade war?
Michigan's auto industry and shoppers' bills are at the heart of Abdul El-Sayed's argument for ending the tariff war with Canada. In Joy Malbon's Washington report for CTV News, the Democratic senator-elect says the policy harms his state's car industry and raises consumer prices.
"That has to end," he says.
The report, titled "Will a Democratic majority in Congress help end the Canada-U.S. trade war?", drew roughly 147,000 views in just over a day, far beyond the channel's usual start for a Short. CTV also posted a separate clip of El-Sayed's tariff remarks, which attracted an unusually large audience of its own.
The new element here is a call from the American side of the border. Earlier CTV coverage featured Canadian politicians weighing what the Democratic gains might mean; Malbon's report brings in an incoming Michigan senator explicitly pushing to halt the tariffs. It establishes that intention, rather than announcing a deal or a timetable for relief.
CTV's Canadian budget broadcasts and Tom Mulcair's commentary on the post-election trade outlook also drew much stronger starts than usual. But El-Sayed's remarks give this report its clearest point: he says he is willing to work with Donald Trump on shared priorities, including healthcare, ending the war and stopping the tariffs.
An American politician and epidemiologist who is the U.S. senator-elect from Michigan.
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- Channel
- CTV News
- Subscribers
- 2,430,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 23,080,912
- Channel views, pace per day
- 4,539,373 (on a normal day: 3,598,233)
- Video published
- November 5, 2026
- Video views so far
- 147,349 (2 days online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 137,252
The numbers
The tariff report's estimated first-day views were far above CTV News's usual start for Shorts. Its separate upload of El-Sayed's remarks also drew an unusually strong response.
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El-Sayed says the tariffs harm Michigan's auto industry and raise consumer prices.