*PM says Trump is trying to make it easier to annex Canada — but it won’t work *
An unbowed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday that Canada will hit back hard at the U.S. after President Donald Trump launched a North American trade war by slapping devastating 25 per cent tariffs on virtually all Canadian goods.
Speaking to reporters at a news conference on Parliament Hill, Trudeau said Trump is trying to prompt “a total collapse of the Canadian economy” because he thinks that will “make it easier to annex us.”
But Trudeau said that will never happen because “when it comes to defending our great nation, there is no price we all aren’t willing to pay.”
Trudeau said Canada will not back down from a fight in the face of “completely bogus and completely unjustified” trade action that has the potential to ruin bilateral relations and prompt job losses, economic devastation and higher inflation on both sides of the border.
It’s not about the Canadian economy. He is working to upset Allies, which Putin wants. He also wants to cause a recession so the rich can buy up even more of the country.
It can be both.
It is a big disservice to world/humanity/Canadians to interpret US empire aggression as service to Russia. Evil is not done for Russian profit, even if they enjoy the divisiveness of alliances previously devoted to destroy it. Understand the US empire as self serving for its own evil ambitions. When you fantasize another enemy, you encourage responses of hatred towards your fantasy instead of your actual enemy.
It will happen in bits and pieces. I bet Alberta will go first. Then my home province of sask. Then someone else and so on.
It’s just not going to happen. Not without a referendum, and the conservatives are not into it. Only the extreme right nut jobs want to give up their sovereignty and become Puerto Rico North with no federal support and no voting rights.
I’m the one who gets called a traitor around here by suggesting to decouple more strongly from US, but as our PM just clearly explained. Any enemy of our enemy should stop being our enemy. Even worse than our continued commitment to get Ukraine destroyed further, as per original US plan, Trudeau forcefully asserted the US plan to justify invasion of Mexico through (state sponsored) terrorist designation of cartels.
All sycophancy must stop.
You are a traitor, for encouraging further death and war.
Pay attention to the crickets of international support for Canada. After Trudeau spending time in Europe, and kissing up to them on Russophobia. Alienating Mexico, FFS, is the biggest self own possible right now. But Canada needs new friends in the world, and more diplomatic/trade visits, including with old friends.
