“If you respond to a US tariff, our reciprocal tariffs will increase immediately in the same proportion“, Trump wrote in a message addressed to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, which he calls” governor “, the title he would have if Canada is attached to the United States.
Trudeau said Tuesday that Trump imposed tariffs on Canada for collapse its economy and “make it easier to annex” the country.
Trudeau explained at a press conference that the reasons Trump has given to impose 25 % tariffs from this Tuesday are “false” and that “The excuse of fentanyl is fictitious.”
“What he has said repeatedly is that he wants to see the total collapse of the Canadian economy because it will be easier to annex. First, that will never happen. We will never be the 51st state, ”said Trudeau.
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