2025-01-22 05:18:00
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau warned that his government is ready to respond and “everything is on the table” if US President Donald Trump proceeds with his threat to impose a 25 per cent tariff on Canadian imports starting from February 1.
While acknowledging that the new President’s approach does bring uncertainty, the Prime Minister said that “Canada provides many of the necessary inputs the American economy is going to need in order to grow and boom”.
“President Trump said that he wants to usher in a ‘golden age’ for the United States. (And) that will require more steel, aluminium, critical minerals, reliable and affordable energy and more of everything to run the US economy full steam ahead. Canada has all those resources,” Trudeau told reporters on Tuesday, adding that his nation was a “safe, secure and reliable partner in an uncertain world”.
The Canadian leader’s remarks came a day after Trump reiterated his threat to impose 25 per cent tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico on February 1, while accusing the two neighbouring nations of failing to stop illegal immigration and narcotics into the US.
“We’re thinking in terms of 25 per cent on Mexico and Canada, because they’re allowing vast numbers of people — Canada’s a very bad abuser also — vast numbers of people to come in, and fentanyl to come in,” he told reporters in the Oval Office on Monday.
In direct response to this statement, Trudeau said at the press conference on Tuesday that his government has already acted to address Trump’s concerns with a more than $1 billion comprehensive border plan.
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