Trudeau says the US wants to overthrow the Canadian economy with tariffs

BBC News, Toronto and London
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau scored Karife Donald Trump on Canada, calling him “very stupid things to do” and vowed to lead the “relentless struggle” to protect his economy.
Trudeau accused the US president of planning a “complete collapse of the Canadian economy because it will make it easier for us to contribute.” “That will never happen. We will never be 51.” He told reporters on Tuesday.
Trump has imposed 25% of tariffs on products entering the US from Canada and Mexico and has increased the imposed goods coming from China.
The Canadian Prime Minister announced the retaliation of tariffs to US exports and warned that the trade war would be expensive for both countries.
“This is the time to have a hard time reciprocating and showing that the fight with Canada will not have winners,” Trudeau said.
He said that the main goal of Canada remains to abolish the tariffs so that “they do not last a second longer than it is necessary.”
Trump says he protects American jobs and production and tries to prevent illegal migration and drug trade. The US president says his goal is to tighten the powerful opioid fental and has differently blamed the other countries to arrival in the US.
After TRUDEAUU’s press conferences, Trump in the post, Trump doubled his threat to further tariffs: “Please explain to Governor Trudeau from Canada, that when he puts on the retaliable tariff on the US, our reciprocal tariff will immediately increase by a similar amount!”
Responding to the charges, Trudeau said on Tuesday that there is no justification for new tariffs, because less than 1% of Fentaniah on the US border came from Canada.
Trudeau’s words echoed with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, who said “no motive, no reason, no justification” for Trump’s move. Speaking on Tuesday, she also vowed to betray her own “tariffs and not -Tarif measures” – but she said that further details would be given on Sunday.
Experts say Trump’s tariff Trump is likely to increase prices for consumers in the USA for abroad.
Three targeted countries are the best US trade partners, and the Tit-Za-Tat measures have also encouraged the fear of a wider trade war.
Tariffs are a tax on imports from other countries, intended for protection against cheaper competition on the other hand and strengthening businesses and jobs at home.
Canadian retaliation includes 25% of reciprocal tariffs that will be imposed on C 155 billion USD ($ 107 billion; 84 billion pounds) US goods:
- Tariff on C goods worth $ 30 billion will immediately take effect
- Tariffs on the remaining C 125 billion US products will enter into force for 21 days’
Canadian Immigration Minister Marc Miller warned that as many as one million jobs in Canada have been threatened if the tariffs are being implemented, given how much a trade is intertwined between the two countries.
“We cannot replace the economy responsible for 80% of our store overnight and will harm it,” he said on Monday.
In an interview with the AFP news agency, an employee of a car in the Canadian province of Ontario said that people were really “pretty scared” that they were fired. “I just bought my first house,” Joel Soleski said. “Maybe I should look for a job elsewhere.”
The sector is one that could badly influence a new tariff regime in North America. Parts of the car can repeatedly exceed the border of the United States during the production process, so it could be taxed on several occasions.
Prime Minister Ontario Doug Ford, whose province is the home of the Canadian car industry, told reporters on Tuesday that he predicted that assembly plants “would be closed on both sides of the border” as a result of the tariff.
The Tariffs called the Canadian Chamber of Commerce “reckless”, whose President Candace Laing warned that the move would force Canada and now “recession, job losses and economic disasters.”
Ms. Laing warned that she would also increase the prices of Americans and force US companies to find alternative suppliers she said they were “less reliable than Canadian.”
The Canadian provincial leaders vowed their own answers.
Ford from Ontario has dropped the possibility of removing Canadian electricity and exports of high quality nickel in the US, as well as putting exports of 25% on electricity sent to homes in Michigan, New York and Minnesota.
Canada exports enough electricity to power about six million American homes.
Ontario and other provinces also moved to remove alcoholic beverage from the shelves. In Nova Scotland, Prime Minister Tim Houston said his province would ban US companies to bid on provincial contracts, as well as Ontario.
Ford also announced that a contract with Satellite Internet company Elona Musk will be canceled.
Meanwhile, China – which now faces a 20% tariff after Trump doubled his earlier levies – vowed to fight any trade war of “bitter region”. He announced his own counter -measures – including tariffs on a number of American agricultural and food products.