President Trump’s tariff war with New York’s neighbor Canada will hurt businesses and consumers in the state, Gov. Kathy Hochul claimed Sunday.

“Canada and New York State are really part of one region,” Hochul said on MSNBC’s “The Weekend” program.

New York borders the Montreal-Quebec and Toronto-Ontario regions. The Peace Bridge connecting both countries spans from Buffalo to Fort Erie, Ontario.

Trump slapped a 25% tariff on all imports from Canada and Mexico over the weekend, as well as a 10% tariff on Chinese goods. He acknowledged that the levy could cause “pain” for Americans, but said “it will all be worth it.”

“Canada, and this is not a surprise, is talking about retaliatory tariffs on our products. Our businesses are going to feel this immediately,” Hochul said.

“Why are we doing this?”

She said New York is an economic engine for the country, so a tariff war will have a “ripple effect” across the US.

“This is going to be an additional tax on New York residents and American residents. I don’t see a way around it,” the governor said.

New York business leaders agreed that there’s little doubt that a tariff war with Canada will hurt sectors of the Empire State’s economy.

“The Business Council is deeply concerned about the impacts these tariffs will have on New York’s economy, particularly our manufacturing sector,” said Heather Mulligan, president and CEO of the Business Council of New York State.

“Our state’s employers produce over $20 billion in goods that are purchased between Canada and Mexico and account for nearly a million jobs. As these tariffs will no doubt negatively impact our employers and consumers, we will work with other state chambers and our national partners to monitor them and respond to their impacts,” she said.

Democrats from the upstate border regions with Canada slammed the Trump tariffs as counterproductive, while Republicans were silent or backed the president.

“Trump’s trade war with Canada will leave Western New York  families to pay the price,” said Buffalo-area Democratic Congressman Tim Kennedy.

He claimed the tariff dispute will trigger a surge in prices for his constituents and disruption in supply chains.

“This is not just an abstract trade issue — it’s a direct blow to the bottom lines of our local businesses and the pocketbooks of households across the region,” Kennedy said.

He urged Trump to honor the trade agreement he negotiated his first term and rescind the 25% tariff.  

But Buffalo-area businessman Carl Paladino, a Republican activist, defended Trump.

“Trump is helping straighten Canada out,” said developer Paladino, the GOP candidate for governor in 2010, to The Post on Sunday.

He said that in the long term, the US will be better off, though there could be a short-term hit for the upstate region.   

Traffic might drop on the Peace Bridge, which he said may not be such a bad thing.   

Hochul said she hope that Trump’s tariffs are a temporary act to get attention from the countries to help address the fentanyl crisis. She noted she has put more resources on the northern border to crack down on fentanyl smuggling.