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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 costs of just about everything for American citizens, that on top of that, we’re going to have a robust response to that,
We are ready to respond with tariffs as necessary,
I know that as a successful negotiator, he likes to keep people a little off balance. The 51st state, that’s not going to happen,
Trudeau told MSNBC’s "Inside with Jen Psaki" on Sunday It ended up causing a lot of loss in American businesses for whom Canada is their number one export partner. We are the number one export partner for about 35 different U.S. states, and anything that thickens the border between us ends up costing American citizens and American jobs. That’s not what President Trump got elected to do,
No American wants to pay 25% more for electricity or oil and gas coming in from Canada,
Trudeau said in the interview with Psaki, President Biden’s former White House press secretary From my very first conversations with him back in 2016, he told me how much he admires Canada, how much he appreciates and likes us, so there is a certain amount of flattery in this that he thinks that we are as great as we are,
Trudeau said of Trump on Sunday It actually sort of came up at one point, and then we started musing back-and-forth about this,
We've actually responded to his request for us to do more with billions of dollars-worth of investments to even further strengthen the security at our borders, to make sure we're reducing the flow of illicit drugs back and forth across our border to get a better handle on the migration issues that are real at the northern border, but nowhere near the level of concern that Americans have further south."
They would save massively on taxes and military protection. I think it is a great idea. 51st State!!!
he wrote in a Truth Social post in December There's lots of things we can do, and we've already responded to some of the concerns that he has, and we're going to continue doing that, because it's in both of our interests to do well together."
No, no, I think we definitely need to take that seriously.”
That’s not going to happen. It’s just a non-starter,
he told MSNBC’s Jen Psaki on Sunday He got elected to try and make life easier for all Americans, to support American workers,