For Canadians who … stood shoulder to shoulder with American soldiers in far-off lands and conflicts from the First World War onward … it’s kind of insulting.
[Canada will] move forward with retaliatory measures on July 1, applying equivalent tariffs to the ones that Americans have unjustly applied to us.
It is not something we relish doing, but it is something that we absolutely will because Canadians, we’re polite, we’re reasonable, but we also will not be pushed around.
—Justin Trudeau
The White House was incensed, and it attacked Trudeau:
Larry Kudlow, director of the U.S. National Economic Council, said on CNN that Trudeau engaged in “betrayal” and “stabbed us in the back.”
Another key member of the president’s team, Peter Navarro, the White House director of trade policy, told Fox News Sunday, “There’s a special place in hell for any foreign leader that engages in bad faith diplomacy with President Donald J. Trump and then tries to stab him in the back on the way out the door.”
—ABC News
Canada stayed calm and rational:
Canada does not believe that ad hominem attacks are a particularly appropriate or useful way to conduct our relations with other countries.
—Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland
Thank you Canada — you have warmed my heart on this one.
” Canada stayed calm and rational ”
it’s just so embarrassing.
It’s the new normal here, I’m afraid. But bless Canada.
I love it that when President Nixon similarly attacked Trudeau’s father years ago, his dad replied, “I’ve been called worse by better people.”
Thank you for that! I hadn’t heard it before. 😀
having no other country on my small continent – I don’t understand aspects of the bigger continents…although there doesn’t seem to be same border conflicts that break out into complete warfare on yours…that has occurred in Europe…
There are advantages to being a small island country!
I live close to the Canadain (British Columbia) we as American could take a lesson from our neighbors. There still a strong middle class.
Coffee is on
The U.S. is a real mess right now, and the trade war is going to make it even worse. Canada will be hurt too.
Typical bully attitude, “I’m supposed to do to you; you are not supposed to do to me.”
It’s all about Trump, no thought to how his decisions will affect other people.
Our cousins in Toronto are totally bemused by what’s happening in the States, and very glad they live in Canada.
From what I read Canada, too, will be hurt by the tariffs. Fingers crossed for us all.
I will not comment for obvious reasons. The long term implications for the world is mind boggling enough without having to take sides on this issue.
If I were to be an American, I would be more worried about the implications of
breaking up with Europe.
Unfortunately the EU may be breaking up because of immigration. Everything is a mess.