
Justin Trudeau panics as Trump threatens to impose ‘devastating’ tariffs on Canada, makes urgent call to…
Hindustan TimesCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reacted swiftly after US President-elect Donald Trump threatened to levy tariffs on Chinese, Mexican, and Canadian exports as world currencies plunged. Trudeau's Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland and Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc, in a statement highlighted that “Canada is essential to the US domestic energy supply and 60 percent of US crude oil imports originated in Canada last year.” They ensured that Canada will keep talking about these matters with the next US administration. Ontario Premier on Trudeau to hold urgent meeting Meanwhile, the head of the Canadian industry group Automotive Parts Manufacturers' Association, Flavio Volpe, stated that he considered Trump's posts were merely a means of initiating talks that would ultimately cement the US and Canada as friends in the war against China. “Half of the cars made in China are made by American companies and half of the parts that go into all the cars made in Canada come from US suppliers, and more than half of the raw materials are from US sources,” Volpe remarked, adding that the US and Canada are “beyond partners” and they are almost “as inseparable as family.” In a social media post, Ontario Premier Doug Ford declared that a 25 percent tariff would “be devastating to workers and jobs in both Canada and the US.” Stressing that the crisis at the border must be taken seriously by the federal authorities, he stressed that they urgently need a Team Canada “approach and response”.
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