*PM says Trump is trying to make it easier to annex Canada — but it won’t work *
An unbowed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday that Canada will hit back hard at the U.S. after President Donald Trump launched a North American trade war by slapping devastating 25 per cent tariffs on virtually all Canadian goods.
Speaking to reporters at a news conference on Parliament Hill, Trudeau said Trump is trying to prompt “a total collapse of the Canadian economy” because he thinks that will “make it easier to annex us.”
But Trudeau said that will never happen because “when it comes to defending our great nation, there is no price we all aren’t willing to pay.”
Trudeau said Canada will not back down from a fight in the face of “completely bogus and completely unjustified” trade action that has the potential to ruin bilateral relations and prompt job losses, economic devastation and higher inflation on both sides of the border.
I’m the one who gets called a traitor around here by suggesting to decouple more strongly from US, but as our PM just clearly explained. Any enemy of our enemy should stop being our enemy. Even worse than our continued commitment to get Ukraine destroyed further, as per original US plan, Trudeau forcefully asserted the US plan to justify invasion of Mexico through (state sponsored) terrorist designation of cartels.
Pay attention to the crickets of international support for Canada. After Trudeau spending time in Europe, and kissing up to them on Russophobia. Alienating Mexico, FFS, is the biggest self own possible right now. But Canada needs new friends in the world, and more diplomatic/trade visits, including with old friends.
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I’m the one who gets called a traitor around here by suggesting to decouple more strongly from US, but as our PM just clearly explained. Any enemy of our enemy should stop being our enemy. Even worse than our continued commitment to get Ukraine destroyed further, as per original US plan, Trudeau forcefully asserted the US plan to justify invasion of Mexico through (state sponsored) terrorist designation of cartels.
All sycophancy must stop.
Pay attention to the crickets of international support for Canada. After Trudeau spending time in Europe, and kissing up to them on Russophobia. Alienating Mexico, FFS, is the biggest self own possible right now. But Canada needs new friends in the world, and more diplomatic/trade visits, including with old friends.
You are a traitor, for encouraging further death and war.