Posted on 01/31/2025 1:52:40 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canada “won’t back down” from President Trump’s threat to impose a 25 percent tariff and that Ottawa will respond accordingly until they are removed.
“We’re showing the new American administration that they have a strong partner in Canada when it comes to upholding border security, all while simultaneously underscoring that we won’t back down, that if tariffs are implemented against Canada, we will respond,” Trudeau said Friday while addressing the advisory council on Canada-U.S. relations.
“We won’t relent until tariffs are removed and, of course, everything is on the table,” he added.
Trump has once again brought up his intention to slap a 25 percent tariff on Mexico and Canada, something he first threatened in late November of last year following the 2024 presidential election.
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Yeah Turdeau all ready done his best to wreck Canada. He will not do anything to save it now
I thought this loser quit.
Are you still there, Justine?
“Castro-Turdeau” is also acceptable for his last name. 😊
He’ll blink before long.
the fem has already backed down. he resigned.
Shouldn’t Castreaux be teaming up with Cuber?
Are Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and CA Gov. Gavin Newsom actually the same thing?
Won’t back down on what? Sending fentanyl?
I thought he resigned and was leaving office? When do they hold elections?
Trump is right and Trudeau is wrong (and stupidly woke).
OK. Can someone enlighten me as to why we would want to impose tariffs like that on Canada?
They’re probably the country we are on the best terms with, maybe outside Israel and we have so much commerce with that that can travel easily across the border. They do provide us with things we need.
The Canadians I have had the pleasure to know personally are wonderful people.
Back down from a trade imbalance and refusal to secure his border? No leverage.
Your reply makes sense and helps to answer my queestion.
In 10+ years of liberal rule, Trudeau and his dipsheet Lib colleagues have cancelled the planned Energy East Pipeline and Great Northern Gateway pipelines, which would’ve brought oil and gas to Canadian terminals, rather than to the USA, where 90% of their energy goes now.
If they pressed ahead, these would be nearly completed and operating by now.
When the prime ministers of Japan, Germany and Greece showed up at different times with proposals to fund and build oil and gas terminals, Trudeau said “there was no business case for them.”
This clown shot Canada in the feet, now they must dance with Trump.
OK. Can someone enlighten me as to why we would want to impose tariffs like that on Canada?
:-)
Why does Donald Trump want tariffs on Mexico and Canada?
Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump said his intention behind the tariffs is to curb the influx of undocumented migrants and fentanyl across U.S. borders while also addressing trade imbalances.
“We’ll be announcing the tariffs on Canada and Mexico for a number of reasons,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.
“Number one is the people who have poured into our country so horribly and so much. Number two are the drugs — fentanyl and everything else that have come into the country. And number three are the massive subsidies we are giving to Canada and Mexico in the form of deficits. And I will be putting the tariff of 25 percent on Canada, and, separately, 25 percent on Mexico. And we will really have to do that because we have very big deficits with those countries. Those tariffs may or may not rise with time.”
I can not. Canada is America's backyard for oil, gas, and all kinds of minerals. We import 4 million barrels of heavy crude a day, to refineries that are built to specifically process heavy crude. The other option is Venezuela.
We expect to confront China and Russia, but are pushing away our best resources partner right on our border, with whom we share peace, stability, a common language, etc.... We want greatly shortened supply chains and manufacturing brought back. Isn't at least Canada and North America better than SE Asia and Africa?
I can't see the sense of it. Maybe it will become evident later.
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