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Trudeau tells US governors to ditch 'America First'
BBC ^ | July 14, 2017 | Staff

Posted on 07/14/2017 4:36:54 PM PDT by Trump20162020

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has told governors from across the US to ditch the "America First" motto.

His National Governors' Association speech in Rhode Island on Friday was a first for a Canadian prime minister.

In his speech, Mr Trudeau urged US governors to embrace their neighbour to the north and avoid protectionism.

It is all a part of his aggressive strategy to promote a "thinner border" ahead of vital trade talks with the US renegotiating the Nafta treaty.

President Donald Trump has made "America First" his mantra, shaping his policies on trade and immigration.

But Mr Trudeau, who is a fierce advocate of free trade, told the governors protectionist policies "kill growth".

"And that hurts the very workers these measures are nominally intended to protect. Once we travel down that road, it can quickly become a cycle of tit-for-tat, a race to the bottom, where all sides lose," Mr Trudeau said.

"If anything, we would like a thinner border, not a thicker one."

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TOPICS: Canada; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: americafirst; canada; governors; justintrudeau; trudeau
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To: Trump20162020
""If anything, we would like a thinner border, not a thicker one.""

Thin...like the space between Trudeau's ears.

61 posted on 07/14/2017 5:28:41 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Trump20162020

This guy...The Cuck Canuck


62 posted on 07/14/2017 5:28:51 PM PDT by tophat9000 (Tophat9000)
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To: Da Coyote

Is Trudeay a trannie?


In all honestly I don’t think “he” has any genitalia whatsoever


63 posted on 07/14/2017 5:30:54 PM PDT by tophat9000 (Tophat9000)
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To: jazusamo

We need another wall. This jerk is paying $10 mil to a terrorist!


64 posted on 07/14/2017 5:37:06 PM PDT by VermithraxPejorative
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To: Trump20162020

I cannot post what I would like to say.

Trudeau is a frat boy posing as a leader of a country.


65 posted on 07/14/2017 5:37:10 PM PDT by proud American in Canada ( God Bless America (Trump: I will bear the slings and arrows for you, the American people))
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To: jazusamo
As far as the Canadian/U.S. border in concerned it needs to be much tighter.

I could not agree more. Yes, the Southern border is bad...but the Northern border... someone who knows what they are doing could hike and camp right across it.

My husband grew up just 17 miles from the U.S./Canadian border....

66 posted on 07/14/2017 5:40:23 PM PDT by proud American in Canada ( God Bless America (Trump: I will bear the slings and arrows for you, the American people))
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Yeah, now there’s a shocker.

The dumbass governors invite a foreign leftist globalist snowflake to speak to them and he tells them to abandon their own and embrace his country and every other country instead.

They could have invited 0bama or Clinton to tell them the same thing, but they couldn’t afford the speaking fees they charge.


67 posted on 07/14/2017 5:43:59 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: Trump20162020

Mr, Trudeau,

I agree. In fact, in celebration of thinner borders, we will be happy to send you all of our Muslim immigrants, regardless of status and our illegal Mexican immigrants. I am certain they will be happy to suck your taxpayers dry.


68 posted on 07/14/2017 5:44:08 PM PDT by KittenClaws ( Normalcy Bias. Do you have it?)
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To: Trump20162020

What’s it gonna do? Shake it’s azz in our general direction.. Pffft! ...


69 posted on 07/14/2017 5:47:25 PM PDT by VRWC For Truth (FREEP U, Schmucky O'Putz!)
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To: Chode

Exactly! ...


70 posted on 07/14/2017 5:48:01 PM PDT by VRWC For Truth (FREEP U, Schmucky O'Putz!)
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To: proud American in Canada

Agreed and thank you. I didn’t mean to sound like I was dissing true Canadians but it seems like Canada is suffering the muzzie invasion like us and many Western countries.


71 posted on 07/14/2017 5:48:40 PM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Trump20162020

Justin Bieber should worry about Canada first, debt levels are insane and about to bring down the financial system there.


72 posted on 07/14/2017 5:49:41 PM PDT by Kenny500c
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To: KittenClaws

On a brighter note, I will purchase a Canadian tomatoe at the supermarket before I purchase a Mexican tomatoe.

But, I will ALWAYS purchase a tomatoe grown in the USA first.


73 posted on 07/14/2017 5:49:46 PM PDT by KittenClaws ( Normalcy Bias. Do you have it?)
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To: Trump20162020

Trudeau, you really need to pay attention to your own badly jihadified nation instead of giving bad advice to ours.


74 posted on 07/14/2017 5:54:20 PM PDT by TChris ("Hello", the politician lied.)
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To: Trump20162020

Mr Trudeau, stop your collusion!


75 posted on 07/14/2017 5:56:18 PM PDT by LeoTDB69
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To: Trump20162020

He looks just like Fidel and Raul Castro-—except effeminate. Check it out on the internet. His mother Margaret was a total tramp


76 posted on 07/14/2017 5:58:06 PM PDT by Mamzelle
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To: Trump20162020

And the FROG is starting to whine.


77 posted on 07/14/2017 6:00:17 PM PDT by crz
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To: Trump20162020

Trump should invite Trudeau to Lunch at Gitmo


78 posted on 07/14/2017 6:12:21 PM PDT by butlerweave (it's the children are)
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To: Trump20162020

Tell the Canuck I said yo gp back to Canadia and f himself.


79 posted on 07/14/2017 6:17:33 PM PDT by Garvin (“Republicans are the new punk” (Sabo))
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To: proust

He forgets his place in the greater scheme of things.
He is a guest in our country and should not pretend to lecture us about what is in our self interest to get what is in his best interest.


80 posted on 07/14/2017 6:18:11 PM PDT by JayGalt (Let Trump Be Trump)
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