Posted on 03/04/2025 8:48:26 AM PST by algore
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivered a strong rebuke of President Donald Trump's decision to level punishing tariffs on their country.
He cited the Wall Street Journal to criticize Trump, and call his decision 'dumb.'
'Donald, they point out that even though you are a very smart guy, this is a very dumb thing to do,' he said angrily at a press conference on Tuesday.
Imports from Canada will now be taxed at 25 percent as Trump's tariffs went into effect on Tuesday.
'Today the United States launched a trade war against Canada, their closest partner and ally, and their closest friend,' Trudeau said. 'At the same time they're talking about working positively with Russia, appeasing Vladimir Putin a lying murderous dictator. Make that make sense.'
The United States imported $412 billion worth of goods from Canada in 2024 according to the US Census Bureau as they are the third largest trading partner with the United States.
'Canadians are reasonable and we are polite but we will not back down from a fight, not when our country and the well being of everyone in it is at stake,' Trudeau said.
Justin Trudeau spoke directly to the American people, blaming President Donald Trump for making the decision to level tariffs, warning it would hurt the country economically.
'We don't want this. We want to work with you as a friend and ally and we don't want to see you hurt either but your government has chosen to do this to you,' he said.
Trudeau announced that Canada would begin implementing 25 percent tariffs against the $155 billion of American goods, starting with tariffs on $30 billion of goods immediately.
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My take: Obama, in all three terms, worked hard to reduce the strength of the US to whittle us down to the size of the other countries. And Trump is simply undoing it.
We could and should have avoided most (if not all) of this had we had an adult in charge of things and that they would have sat down with Trump way earlier and worked with him (kind of like Danielle Smith in Alberta).
My response to liberals, when they say Trump is dumb, is that he’s beating the collective liberal intellgence like an old drum. If Trump is so dumb, when is he beating the collective liberalism handily?
If Canada were our closest friend, they wouldn’t allow China to control their government and they’d stop the Fentanyl crossing the border.
Justin, you big brain, your commie country ain’t our “friend”.
Yeah, Turdeau, he’s reaaallly dumb. About $16 billion dumb.
How dumb are you, Turdeau....? Spit.
Why is he still there? He resigned.
This idiot is days away from no longer being leader of Canada. The Liberal Party he leads will elect a new leader. Likely Mark Carney who will then become PM. Also likely an election will be announced by the end of the month. The idiot will be a memory at best by then.
I had thought that President Trump’s tariffs only brought us even with countries such as Canada and Mexico, China etc.
Those countries that have been ripping us off with THEIR high tariffs for years while we played the suckers. No?
I doubt most Canadians are not going to see it that way. They’re going to see a hostile US trying to bully them into giving one-sided terms favourable to the US to please the ‘America First’ crowd at the expense of Canadians.
There is nothing that unites patriots of any country together behind even a crappy leader like being attacked by outsiders.
Trump may well win this trade war and force Canada to come to terms, but the resentment is going to linger for a long time.
We can do just fine without their maple syrup and hockey.
And that bitch, Anne Murray, too!
”The price of hockey pucks will go through the roof.”
It’s already happening. The Liberal party has almost pulled ahead of the Conservatives.
Gayness🤣
WE DON’T CARE.
Which is why Canadian leadership handled the Canadian truckers’ strike the way it did. Slap the wife around, a little. Stockholm syndrome works.
I think he’s out at the end of March.
Baby Castro was pretty dumb to do that, eh?
Ungreatful turd.
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