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Canadian former Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said Ottawa should take revenge on any US tariffs by adding huge levies to Tesla’s vehicles to punish Elona Musk, one of Donald Trump’s “friend”.
Freelandwho nominations to replace Justin Trudeau as the Prime Minister, he called for a quick, criminal reaction Ottawa if the US president follows his threat to impose 25 percent of tariffs on Canada and Mexico, which starts this weekend.
“Canada must threaten to impose a 100 -pointed tariff on all Tesla vehicles and 100 percent of tariffs on American wine, beer and alcoholic beverages if the dishonest tariffs are imposed on the Canadians,” Freeland said on Friday.
The comments of one of the most important politicians in Canada indicate a sharp escalation in a trade dispute with Washington, which broke out outdoors after Trump said that from February 1st he would impose tariffs on the two largest shopping partners in the United States.
On Friday, the White House repeated its Tariff imposing plan from Saturday.
Trudeau also said on Friday that Canada was ready to take revenge on now -in: “We are ready with an answer – a purposeful, strong but reasonable, immediate answer,” he said, as he warned Canadians, “Our ours could face ours with difficult times in the coming days and weeks. “
Freeland, which was part of the Canadian team that negotiated a commercial agreement on the American-Mexico-Kanada, which Trump signed during its first Presidency said that the publication of a targeted list of potential retail tariffs would show $ 200 billion in 200 billion dollars where “we can hit Trump where it hurts”.
“Targetting products from the Republican states who voted for Trump and the products made by his or her friends of the billionaire, Canada can make an inevitable political pressure on the White House,” she said.
Canada has previously imposed 100 percent of tariffs on the import of a Chinese electric vehicle, in a move that followed similar levies in the Chinese EV published by Joe Biden’s administration.
Freeland comments also arrived while Mélanie Joly, Canadian Foreign Minister, gave her latest talks in Washington to try to prevent Tariff Trump.
Joly used a Interview Financial Times On Friday to warn the United States that every disorder of energy flow between Canada and his southern neighbors would launch a trade war to leave US oil refineries dependent on the alternative supply of the Venezuela thermal oil.
Joly also vowed that Canada would never become a “colony”, in references to Trump’s claims that the Canadians would like to join the USA -ui to his repeated Gominja Trudeauu, whom he called the “Governor” “51 states.”
Canada and Mexico are Built lists From Tariff “Tit for Tat” to betray against the US as soon as Trump imposes tariffs.
Mexican left-wing President Claudia Sheinbaum said earlier this week that she didn’t think that the 25 % tariff would happen on Saturday, but on Friday she said that the Government was planning for various scenarios.
“We have plan A, Plan B and Plan C, whatever the government of the United States decides,” she said on Friday morning.
Kelly Day, President of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, said the tariff war would be a great concern for small Canadian companies, because more than half of their members imported goods from the USA.
“Trump’s new best friend is Elon and targeting these kinds of people close to the president, he can add pressure, but overall, we invite caution with retribution,” he said.
Tiff Mackklem, Governor of Canada Bank, said on Wednesday that US tariffs were likely to put Canada in a recession and increase consumer prices in the US.
The Canadian dollar and Mexican Peso on Friday increased from the US dollar after reporting that Trump could encourage the implementation of all new tariffs on March.
Extra reporting Christine Murray in Mexico City
