*PM says Trump is trying to make it easier to annex Canada — but it won’t work *

An unbowed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday that Canada will hit back hard at the U.S. after President Donald Trump launched a North American trade war by slapping devastating 25 per cent tariffs on virtually all Canadian goods.

Speaking to reporters at a news conference on Parliament Hill, Trudeau said Trump is trying to prompt “a total collapse of the Canadian economy” because he thinks that will “make it easier to annex us.”

But Trudeau said that will never happen because “when it comes to defending our great nation, there is no price we all aren’t willing to pay.”

Trudeau said Canada will not back down from a fight in the face of “completely bogus and completely unjustified” trade action that has the potential to ruin bilateral relations and prompt job losses, economic devastation and higher inflation on both sides of the border.

  • .Donuts@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    12 hours ago

    rather than just spamming memes and non sequitors based off keywords in the topic title

    Yeah I thought that was just reddit, but we do it over here too. Stupid thing is, the “karma” or whatever it’s called on Lemmy isn’t even displayed, so it doesn’t do shit anyway.

    I probably should have been nicer and not done the LMGTFY

    I mean, maybe? I think if all the downvoters understood that the content in question was right there in the article, they would have been on your side. Instead, they just pile on and call you a meanie. Meh.