*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.

  • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zipEnglish
    3·
    21 hours ago

    …

    We are in a thread about the speech. The article this links to has the entirety of the speech embedded in it.

    Shit like this is still useful: please understand. Not ALL of America is racist (well… a lot of us are). Most are just REALLY FUCKING STUPID and completely broken by algorithm driven content. And other countries? You aren’t far behind. Fix your shit before you are as screwed as we are.

    • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      20 hours ago

      So please tell me where in that article is the link to a video of the full speech?
      Because I skimmed it again, and I still can’t find it!!!

      It has 7 big photos, and is 5 pages on my monitor. It may be there, or you may be full of shit IDK, and honestly, I don’t even care, because you are obviously too dense to get the point.