Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wrapped up a call with his U.S. counterpart midday Wednesday, a senior government official told CBC News.
It’s the first time the two have spoken since U.S. President Donald Trump launched a trade war yesterday with devastating tariffs on all Canadian goods.
The details of what the two leaders discussed are not yet known.
Vice-President JD Vance and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick were also on the call, the government official said.
The official said discussions between the two sides will continue throughout the afternoon.
Drop the tariffs and we’ll allow US banks to operate in Canada, allow American cars to be sold here, ban all exports of fentanyl, and stop booing your national anthem.
It may seem like a small thing but it’s nicely symbolic of America losing its international reputation and standing. At this rate its its soft power will be demolished within the year, and its economic and military might will soon follow.
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Drop the tariffs and we’ll allow US banks to operate in Canada, allow American cars to be sold here, ban all exports of fentanyl, and stop booing your national anthem.
US banks are already allowed. They just don’t like our regulations (that protect us against a 2008 style financial crisis)
I think the joke is that we already do all of those things (except the stop booing part)
Also that we might otherwise stop doing some of those things.
We may also be lying about offering to stop booing. Canadians have gone hard into patriotism because of how moronic Trump is.
You made me appreciate Trudeau you fuckers, and I still loathe what he’s (not) done with election reform.
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I take it that’s the bargaining chip? Because please do go on
It may seem like a small thing but it’s nicely symbolic of America losing its international reputation and standing. At this rate its its soft power will be demolished within the year, and its economic and military might will soon follow.
We don’t export fentanyl.
43 lbs of fentanyl was seized at the CAN-US border (north to south) in 2024, which is less than 1% of America’s total fentanyl seizures. Source
So technically we do illegally export fentanyl.
I am sure the fentanyl used for medical purposes we do, unless we import it all from the US?
Legal fentanyl isn’t what this is all about, from what I can tell. Fentanyl in a hospital setting is not the issue.
gluten free organic freerange fentanyl pls