Trump Threatens to Escalate Trade War With Canada

Pierre Poilievreconservative Leader

Canada will never be the 51st state. Period. We are a great and independent country."

Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre said in a post on X

I would be working urgently with those partners to establish a closer security relationship,

the former finance minister said during the final Liberal Party leadership debate last week, U.K. newspaper The Telegraph reported

Justin Trudeauprime Minister

There isn't a snowball's chance in hell that Canada would become part of the United States. Workers and communities in both our countries benefit from being each other's biggest trading and security partner."

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on X, formerly Twitter, in January

That is why he is supporting [Russian President] Vladimir Putin's criminal attempt to redraw Ukraine's borders,

she added

There’s a generalised sense of patriotism that has not been evident in Canada in many years in response to Trump and Trump’s hostility,

said Ira Wells, a professor at the University of Toronto’s Victoria College

Gregor Robertson (politician)canadian politician

Trump’s name and brand have no more place on Vancouver’s skyline than his ignorant ideas have in the modern world,

Robertson wrote

Justin Trudeauprime Minister

Not only does the Trump administration know how many critical minerals we have, but that may be even why they keep talking about absorbing us and making us the 51st state,

Trudeau told the gathering in Toronto

I can’t quite figure it out,

said Stephen Moore, the Heritage Foundation economist and former adviser to Trump

I love Canada, I love the people of Canada,

Trump said at a cabinet meeting at the White House

With Trump, politics is personal.”

Noting that

We need to use our resources and support allies like Canada,

Trump said