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.”
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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.
“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
checkmate
your move
You don’t start off in negotiations by giving the other side everything they want.
Now we got all this room,
we’ve even got the moon,
I hear canada will be
open soon..
that negotiating strategy is really grabbing him by the pus..
Thanks, JT...we’re hanging on every word.
What a hoser!
Trudeau purposefully keeps the dollar where it is as a form of dumping of Canadian manufactured goods.
“You don’t start off in negotiations by giving the other side everything they want.”
You do if you are Speaker Mike Johnson.
Oh
And throw in Greenland !
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.
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.
All the while ignoring the harm the VAT is doing to the Canadian economy.
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.
Justin Trudeau 🤔 hmmmmmm Justin Trudeau 🤔 hmmmmmmm Oh yeah, wasn’t he the prime minister of Canada?
Shhhhh..... keep em guessin.
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