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Canada’s new commitments include appointing a ‘Fentanyl Czar’, listing cartels as terrorists, ensuring “24/7 eyes on the border” and launching a Canada- US Joint Strike Force to combat organized crime, fentanyl and money laundering.”
On Monday, Trudeau posted on X Canada is free. Canada is sovereign. Canada will choose its own destiny, thank you very much,
Employment Minister Steven MacKinnon What I'd like to see - Canada become our 51st state,
Trump has it in mind that the easiest way to do it is absorbing our country and it is a real thing,
Trudeau was quoted as saying There will be no messing with the 49th parallel, period,
she said, referring to the U.S.-Canadian border We don’t need them. As a state, it’s different. As a state, it’s much different. And there are no tariffs,
I suggest that 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 reportedly told attendees They’re very aware of our resources, of what we have and they very much want to be able to benefit from those,
Our American friends understand that they need Canada for their economic security, they need Canada for their energy security and they need Canada for their national security,
the industry minister, François-Philippe Champagne, told AFP President Trump, who is a very skillful negotiator, is getting people to be somewhat distracted by that, by that conversation, to take away from the conversation around 25% tariffs on oil and gas and electricity and steel and aluminum and lumber and concrete,
Trudeau said in the CNN interview Canadians are incredibly proud of being Canadian. One of the ways we define ourselves most easily is, well, we’re not American,
he told CNN’s “The Lead with Jake Tapper” in the interview in early January There isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell that Canada would become part of the United States.”
Last month, Trudeau fired back on X The president was telling jokes. The president was teasing us,
There’s a window open,
Trudeau said, to eradicate stubborn internal barriers that Canada’s political and business class has complained about for decades The Canadian citizens, if that happened, would get a very big tax cut — a tremendous tax cut — because they are very highly taxed,
he said in January in North Carolina We need to be very deliberate about how we continue to engage closely with the United States to make the case that Canada is responsible for a tiny part of the North American fentanyl problem, but that we are also bitterly touched by this tragedy,
We need to be ready to respond robustly,
What was most poignant for me are the folks that were reiterating what we have been seeing on the ground floor in real time, and that is the threat of the tariffs themselves are already having an impact on our economy, on Canadian workplaces and on Canadian workers, and that is something that we are all going to have to grapple with, because the threats are not going to end, and in fact, they may escalate before we get to a place where we get a resolution,
Payne said, ... according to the Star We are always going to both benefit and be challenged by trade with the United States,
he said, according to CBC News We pay hundreds of Billions of Dollars to SUBSIDIZE Canada. Why? There is no reason. We don't need anything they have. We have unlimited Energy, should make our own Cars, and have more Lumber than we can ever use. Without this massive subsidy, Canada ceases to exist as a viable Country. Harsh but true!"
Trump wrote Sunday in a post on Truth Social