The Canadian Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly told the BBC to take objections to US President Donald Trump that Canada became 51. The state of his country “very seriously”.
“This is no longer a joke,” Joly told Newsght. “There is a reason why Canadians, when they go out to a hockey game, are raising an American national anthem … We are insulting. We are angry. We are angry.”
Her comments come after Trump has imposed 25% of tariffs on the products that have entered the US from Canada on Tuesday. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called it a “very stupid thing” and announced the tariff retaliation.
However, the US secretary for the Howard Lutnick trade said Trump “likely” to announce an agreement on a reduction in tariff on Wednesday.
In response, Joly said to the BBC that “at the end of the day the only one who really makes a decision is President Trump.”
She said no Trump administrative secretary contacted her Canadian colleagues on Monday or Tuesday about tariffs.
On February 4, Trump announced 25% of tariffs in Canada and Mexico, but delayed its implementation until March 4. Canadian energy imports face 10% tariff.
Prime Minister Ontario Doug Ford implemented a 25% electricity export in three US countries and if the tariffs are escalated, said he would consider Removing Michigan, New York and Minnesota from Canadian power.
Trump also imposed 10% of goods on goods worth more than $ 800 (£ 645) from China in February, which doubled in March. China replied with her own tariffs.
Said the White House When he introduced the tariffs that “took a bold action to hold [the three countries] Responsible to their promises to stop illegal immigration and stop poisonous fental and other drugs to enter our country. “
Fentanil is associated with tens of thousands of deaths from an overdose in the US every year.
Trudeau said his country was responsible for less than 1% of the fentanie that enters the US.
Canada had introduced new boundary security measures In December, in response to Trump’s tariff threat before he assumed his duty.
“We did not want this trade war. We did everything that was needed according to the executive order to make sure our border was safe and safe,” Joly told the BBC, but said “this is a false pronunciation by Trump’s administration against us.”
Joly said Canada was “canary in the coal mine” and the Europeans are next and the UK afterwards. Trump has threatened 25% of tariffs and at the European Union.
She said that Canada and the UK should work together: “So I went to London to make sure that if there were tariffs imposed, we should work well on the counter-tariffs.”
Joly said the Canadian public depictions of dissatisfaction against the US “against the American people. We are the best friends of the American people.”
She called Tariffs on the largest American commercial partner “an existential threat.”
“We can’t betray our guard,” she said. “We have to make sure we return.”
