MAINE SUNDAY TELEGRAM • February 9, 2025
For many who live in towns like Madawaska, the result isn’t two distinct worlds but one community. External forces are threatening to pull that world apart. Economists have warned that the impacts of President Donald Trump’s threatened tariffs would reverberate through the American and global economies in ways big and small. Maine’s border towns, whose fortunes are closely tied to sister communities in Canada, will feel the effects acutely. Tariffs won’t just make everyday goods more expensive on both sides of the border, but may also cost the town’s millworkers their jobs. Across the border, greater Edmundston is a bustling metropolis compared with Madawaska. Judy Paradis, who represented Madawaska in the Legislature for years, said, “Canada has been so good to us — they don’t deserve this.”