Eric Ham: Why Trump said he’d rather ‘deal with a Liberal than a Conservative’ prime minister of Canada

We are facing the most significant crisis of our lifetimes because of President Trump’s unjustified trade actions and his threats to our sovereignty,

the Canadian PM said on Sunday 23 March, announcing his decision

We have to convert our anger and our anxiety into action,

Poilievre has said

Canadians are always ready when someone else drops the gloves. Make no mistake, Canada will win.”

Carney wasted no time in rebuking his volatile American counterpart in his acceptance speech, accusing him of seeking to “destroy the Canadian way of life”, characterising the trade war as “the greatest crisis of our lifetime” and warning him