Not so fast…
Outgoing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he and President-elect Trump briefly discussed his comments about making the neighboring country the “51st state” during his Mar-a-Lago visit and a potential “trade” came up.
Trump met with Trudeau in Florida after threatening a 25% blanket tariff on all products imported from north of the border, unless action was taken to curb the flow of illegal drugs and illegal immigrants into the United States.
“It actually sort of came up at one point and then we started musing back and forth about this,” Trudeau told Jen Psaki in a preview clip of a longer interview expected to air on Sunday.
“And when I started to suggest, well, maybe there could be a trade for Vermont or California for certain parts, he immediately decided that it was not that funny anymore, and we moved on to a different conversation.”
Trudeau said that if Trump implements tariffs on Canadian exports, it would warrant a “robust response.”
“This isn’t out of the blue that he’s doing this, but my focus has to be not on something that he’s talking about that will not ever happen, but more on something that might well happen—that if he does choose to go forward with tariffs that raise the cost of just about everything for American citizens, that on top of that, we’re going to have to have a robust response to that,” Trudeau said.
Earlier this week, Trudeau announced his impending resignation after his approval rating continued to decline ahead of the next election. (RELATED: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau To Resign)
Trump has also publicly discussed buying Greenland.
“For purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout the World, the United States of America feels that the ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity,” Trump said in the Truth Social post.
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Buying Greenland would be like pouring money down a rat hole.
Thats what was said about buying Alaska.
Trudeau fails to comprehend that while the US does buy products from Canada, a number of those same products could be sourced internally. And likewise, US products to Canada help keep a number of Canadian industries alive. The question is for Canada, if we insource certain commodities because the Canadian sourced are too expensive, what happens to the Canadian economy?