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Canada's Trudeau urges US consumers to consider the harm of Trump's tariff threats
AP ^ | 1/12/2025 | Jim Morris

Posted on 01/12/2025 7:46:15 PM PST by simpson96

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Canada's outgoing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Sunday suggested that President-elect Donald Trump's remarks about Canada becoming America's “51st state” has distracted attention from the harm that steep tariffs would inflict on U.S. consumers.

Trump has threatened to impose 25% tariffs on all Canadian imports.

“The 51st state, that’s not going to happen," Trudeau said in an interview with MSNBC. “But people are talking about that, as opposed to talking about what impact 25% tariffs (has) on steel and aluminum coming into the United States."

Trudeau told MSNBC: "No American wants to pay 25% more for electricity or oil and gas coming in from Canada. That’s something I think people need to pay a little more attention to.”

Trump has also said that if Canada merged with the U.S., taxes would decrease and there would be no tariffs.

“I know that as a successful negotiator he likes to keep people off balance," Trudeau said of Trump's threats to use economic force to turn Canada into the 51st state. Trump has also erroneously cast the U.S. trade deficit with Canada — a natural resource-rich nation that provides the U.S. with commodities like oil — as a subsidy.

Canadian officials say that if Trump follows through with his threat of punishing tariffs, Canada would consider slapping retaliatory tariffs on American orange juice, toilets and some steel products. Already during Trump's first term in the White House, Canada responded to Trump's tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum with its own on American products like bourbon, Harley Davidson motorcycles and playing cards.

“He got elected to try and make life easier for all Americans, to support American workers,” Trudeau said of Trump. “These (tariffs) are things that are going to hurt them.”

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Humor; Local News
KEYWORDS: blackfacehitler; canada; castreau; castreaux; commerce; justincastro; tariffs; tds; trade; trudeau; turdeau
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1 posted on 01/12/2025 7:46:15 PM PST by simpson96
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Considered for a nano-second then rejected but we would like the whole western half of Canada and you can keep the libtards of the eastern half.


2 posted on 01/12/2025 7:50:49 PM PST by LastDayz (A Blunt and Brazen Texan. I Will Not Be Assimilated.)
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To: simpson96
Put on some blackface (again) Mr. Trudeau, and go on the minstrel circuit. Your opinions no longer matter.


3 posted on 01/12/2025 7:51:30 PM PST by Leaning Right (It’s morning in America. Again.)
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“Considered for a nano-second then rejected but we would like the whole western half of Canada and you can keep the libtards of the eastern half.”
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Can it be legally mandated that no one from the Eastern half is allowed to enter the Western half?

Asking for a friend.... lol


4 posted on 01/12/2025 7:52:36 PM PST by Notthereyet (Not There Yet)
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To: simpson96

checkmate

your move


5 posted on 01/12/2025 7:54:08 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: simpson96

You don’t start off in negotiations by giving the other side everything they want.


6 posted on 01/12/2025 7:54:19 PM PST by packagingguy
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To: simpson96

Now we got all this room,
we’ve even got the moon,
I hear canada will be
open soon..


7 posted on 01/12/2025 7:57:53 PM PST by posterchild
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To: simpson96

that negotiating strategy is really grabbing him by the pus..


8 posted on 01/12/2025 8:07:59 PM PST by big bad easter bunny
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To: simpson96

Thanks, JT...we’re hanging on every word.


9 posted on 01/12/2025 8:14:52 PM PST by chiller (Davey Crockett said: "Be sure you're right. Then go ahead'. I'll go ahead.)
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Go away, eh!

What a hoser!

10 posted on 01/12/2025 8:16:52 PM PST by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves, and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: simpson96

Trudeau purposefully keeps the dollar where it is as a form of dumping of Canadian manufactured goods.


11 posted on 01/12/2025 8:20:05 PM PST by Jonty30 (Liberals are a fulfillment of II Tim3:5. We are instructed to have nothing to do with those people. )
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“You don’t start off in negotiations by giving the other side everything they want.”

You do if you are Speaker Mike Johnson.


12 posted on 01/12/2025 8:21:51 PM PST by captmar-vell
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To: LastDayz

Oh
And throw in Greenland !


13 posted on 01/12/2025 8:28:49 PM PST by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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To: simpson96

Coming from someone who needlessly added a carbon tax to gas. That alone will probably be enough to send his party to oblivion whenever the next election is.


14 posted on 01/12/2025 8:29:23 PM PST by xp38
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As a U.S. consumer I’d like to see every Canadian trucker you gave the shaft made whole again, Justine. Which should include an unequivocal apology from you for being Canada’s biggest a$$h0!e.


15 posted on 01/12/2025 8:41:51 PM PST by TigersEye (8 days until Pres. Poop-in-pants is flushed like a hot steaming 0bama!)
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All the while ignoring the harm the VAT is doing to the Canadian economy.


16 posted on 01/12/2025 9:20:15 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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I still suspect that Trump is just talking for distraction purposes.

Keeps the leftist moonbats hyperventilating over other things while he gets everything he wants done without giving them time to prepare to counter it.


17 posted on 01/12/2025 9:24:32 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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Justin Trudeau 🤔 hmmmmmm Justin Trudeau 🤔 hmmmmmmm Oh yeah, wasn’t he the prime minister of Canada?


18 posted on 01/12/2025 9:38:09 PM PST by Right Brother
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To: metmom

Shhhhh..... keep em guessin.


19 posted on 01/12/2025 9:39:25 PM PST by LastDayz (A Blunt and Brazen Texan. I Will Not Be Assimilated.)
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20 posted on 01/12/2025 9:44:07 PM PST by Allegra (Pat very close attention of such trolling behavior.)
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