Donald Trump’s threatened trade war became reality on March 4th, as the U.S. President imposed 25 per cent tariffs on most Canadian goods. Experts have pointed out that Trump’s unjustified trade war will deeply harm workers, farmers, and families in both countries. Amid the President’s repeated threats against Canadian sovereignty since he took office on January 20th, many are claiming that our economy has become far too reliant on the United States. This is exactly what Canadian feminists warned us about nearly forty years ago.Hundreds of paper records in the Women’s Archives at the University of Ottawa, where I work, document feminist opposition to the ratification of CUSFTA (Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement) in 1988 and NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) in 1994. The National Action Committee on the Status of Women and its then vice president, economist Marjorie Griffin Cohen, claimed that a Mulroney-Reagan free trade deal would have an outsized impact on women workers in the manufacturing sector. After the implementation of CUSFTA, tens of thousands of workers lost their unionized jobs in the garment industry, where women accounted for 90% of the labour force.