‘Trump’s effect’: How American tariffs, ’51. States’ Threatening to Shake Canada | News Donald Trump

Montreal, Canada – Even before he officially re -entered the White House last month to start his second term as president of the United States, Donald Trump repeatedly directed the unlikely goal: Canada.

Trump claimed that the northern neighbor of his country failed to stop irregular migration and drug trade on the border with the US, and he threatened to impose steep tariffs on Canadian imports.

To exclude these measures, which experts say that would devastate the Canadian economyThe Republican leader then presented the idea: Canada can – and should – become 51.

“I think Canada would be much better for it to be 51.” The US president repeated in an interview with Fox News, which was aired over the weekend, continuing the pressure campaign that initially increased in December.

Although the proposal is widely convicted, Trump’s comments – and Its continuous threat In order to collect 25 percent or more on Canadian goods, including imports of steel and aluminum – they broke union, politicians and regular people across Canada.

Calls to boycott American products and stop trips to the United States are steaming, along with nationalist pressure to re -examine the long -standing reliance on the cross -border trade of Canada.

The leaders of the main Canadian political parties, as well as provincial and territorial premiere, used a sharp rhetoric of the usual against their country Top international allypromising to defend economic interests and sovereignty of Canada.

“To say that a unique moment would be humble,” said Shachi Kurl, President of the Angus Reid Institute, an independent Canadian research company.

The mood in Canada is currently anxiety and concern on the one hand, and defiance and anger on the other, Kurl explained.

For many, the feeling is that “Canada did not choose that fight, but if it will hit, she will try to give one right away,” she said.

‘Trump’s effect’

Trump’s repeated threats Canada come in a politically accused moment.

The country was in capturing the years of accessibility crisis, and the exaltation of food prices and the cost of apartments encouraged the increasingly angry rhetoric against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

At the beginning of the year Trudeau announced that he was planning to step down after his management liberal party chooses his successor. The new leader and the Prime Minister will be elected in early March, ending for almost a decade, the Government led by Trudeau in Ottawa.

The country is also preparing for federal elections, which must be held before the end of October.

However, against that background, Trump’s rhetoric and prop

“The most important factor in Canadian politics is not currently living in Canada – it’s Donald Trump,” Beland told Al Jazeera.

By publishing him “Trump’s effect”, the professor said that the “voting issue” could be in the next Canadian election in the end, which is the political party and leader the most appropriate to resolve the US president and relations in Canada.

That could effectively change the race, Beland said.

“The national crisis launched by Trump … really changes the agenda and may also change the perception of what people think that at the moment is needed by the country and who would like to have.”

Politicians engage in a wave of patriotism

Indeed, some poll suggests that Trump’s administration could be among the factors that change as Canadians plan to vote in the upcoming elections.

The opposition conservative party enjoyed Command, double -digit leadership Through unpopular liberals under the leadership of Trudeau until recently.

But with Prime Minister Shepherding Canada through Trump’s tariff threat, and the liberal leadership race has increased interest in the party, the dial seems to change.

The leadership of Tori over Liberals has decreased to nine percentage points, recent Leger Marketing survey Found.

The same poll found that conservative leader Pierre Poilievre and Mark CarneyThe former bank of the Canadian governor, who took over as the next liberal leader, was the neck and neck in the sense of which the Canadians believed they could best bear Trump.

Twenty-two percent of respondents said that Poilievre was their preferred choice to manage the Canada-US relationship, compared to 20 percent chosen by Carney.

Poilievre found himself in a difficult position, Beland explained, as a segment of the Conservative Party base loves Trump and his politics. Others hope that the conservative leader can be opposed to Trump’s glitter.

Right -wing prime minister of Canada Albert Province rich in oilDanielle Smith, is among those who have taken a more recreable approach to Trump. She rejected any discussions about the imposition of tariffs on Canadian energy exports to the United States.

“Danielle Smith is a major conservative figure in Canada, and she accepts a soft approach to Trump while [Poilievre] He tries to be braver without alienating his base. It’s not easy for him to move, “Beland said.

In the meantime, a poll after a survey showed that Canadians predominantly reject Trump’s pressure to become 51. Support for greater sovereignty than trade and infrastructure is growing in the entire country.

“In the beginning, the Canadians were a little confused by” Trump’s comments about the takeover of Canada, said the Kurl Al Jazeera Ue -Poruci.

But now, “Trump’s repetition of annexation plans, combined with all tariffs, has led Canadians to the darker place.”

Recent Analysis of Angus Reid He found that the share of Canadians, saying that they were “very proud” to their country by 10 percentage points – from 34 to 44 percent – between December and February.

The percentage of people who said they want Canada to join the USA has also fallen from 6 to 4 percent. “Almost every politician of every political stripe has tried to use that patriotic feeling, Kurl said.

‘Thinking about us all the time’

These include Douga Ford, right -wing prime minister Ontari, the most populous province in Canada, which holds the provincial election later this month.

Ford made him withdraw against Trump’s tariffs with the central pillar of his re -choice campaign.

He and other leaders of all Canadian provinces and territories traveled to Washington on Wednesday, DC, to defend their interests and promote Canada-US trade ties. “This is the first time the 13 premiere has appeared in Washington,” Ford told reporters.

“We are their biggest commercial partner,” he said about the US. Imports and exports of goods between the two countries amounted to more than $ 700 billion (more than 1 trillion of Canadian dollars) last year, according to Data of the Canadian Government.

“We are their number one buyer. I’m not too sure if they fully understand the influence [of tariffs] In both countries, both sides of the border, “Ford added.

This is the same message that Trudeau and his government have promoted since Trump for the first time threatened to stink a tariff in Canada shortly after winning the re -elections last November.

Earth earned a return last week When the US president agreed to stop the 25 % tariffs on all Canadian goods and 10 percent tariffs on the Canadian oil 30 days, until the beginning of March.

But the threat is still concealed, and the new US pressure to insert tariffs on all the imports of steel and aluminum on March 12. He encouraged new problems.

“It is important to understand that Canada will react as needed, in a calibrated but extremely strong way, no matter what the United States move forward with,” Trudeau told reporters while visiting Brussels, Belgium on Wednesday.

Whatever happened, Beland at McGill University said it is clear that in Canadian politics in the coming weeks and months ahead of us will be strongly influenced by Trump and his administration.

“Most Americans don’t think about Canada often,” he told Al Jazeera.

“But right now, Canadians are thinking [the US] They are constantly and boring – but they do not have many choices. “