Trudeau says that USA wants to collapse Canada’s economy with tariffs

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau criticized Donald Trump’s radical tariffs in Canada, describing him as a “very silly thing” and promised to carry out a “implacable fight” to protect his economy.

Trump has imposed 25% tariffs on the products that enter the US from Canada and Mexico, and has increased a tax on assets from China.

The Canadian prime minister announced retaliation tariffs on exports from the United States and warned that a commercial war would be expensive for both countries.

But Trump further promoted in a publication on Truth Social, saying: “Please, explain to Governor Trudeau, of Canada, that when he performs a retaliation rate on the United States, our reciprocal tariff will increase immediately by a similar amount!”

Trudeau accused the president of the United States Planning “a total collapse of the Canadian economy because that will facilitate annexation.”

“That will never happen. We will never be the state 51,” he told reporters on Tuesday.

“This is a time to return the blow and show that a fight with Canada will not have winners.”

He said that Canada’s main objective is still rates to “do not last a second more than necessary.”

Trump said he is protecting jobs and the manufacture of the United States, and trying to prevent illegal migration and drug trafficking. The president of the United States said that his goal is to tighten the powerful opioid fentanyl; He has blamed the other countries for the arrival of drugs to the United States.

Responding to the accusations, Trudeau said on Tuesday that there was no justification “for the new tariffs, because less than 1% of the intercepted fentanyl on the US border comes from Canada.

Trudeau’s words were resonated by Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum, who said “there was no reason, no justification” for Trump’s move. Speaking on Tuesday, she also promised to issue her own “rates and non -tariff measures,” but said more details would be given on Sunday.

Experts said that Trump tariffs are likely to increase consumers in the United States and abroad.

The three directed countries are the main commercial partners of the United States, and Tit -for-OT measures also caused fears of a broader commercial war.

Tariffs are an import tax in other countries, designed to protect against the cheapest competition from other places and boost companies and jobs at home.

Canada’s retaliation measures include a 25% reciprocal rate that will be imposed at C $ 155 billion (US $ 107 billion; £ 84 billion) of US goods:

• A rate on C $ 30 billion of goods will come into effect immediately
• Tariffs on US products of C $ 125 billion will enter into force in 21 days.

Canada’s immigration minister Marc Miller warned that up to one million jobs in Canada were at risk if tariffs were implemented, since the interlaced trade was between the two countries.

“We cannot replace a responsible economy of 80% of our trade overnight and will hurt,” he said on Monday.

In statements to the AFP news agency, a car manufacturing employee in the Canadian province of Ontario said people were “quite scared” of being fired. “I just bought my first house,” said Joel Soleski. “I could have to look for work elsewhere.”

The sector is one that could be seriously affected by the regime of new tariffs in North America. The pieces of cars can cross the border between the United States and Canada several times during the manufacturing process, so they could imposed on multiple occasions.

The Prime Minister of Ontario, Doug Ford, whose province is the home of the Automotive Manufacturing Industry of Canada, He said to journalists On Tuesday, he anticipates that the assembly plants “will turn off both sides of the border” as a result of the rates.

The tariffs were called “reckless” by the Chamber of Commerce of Canada, whose president Candace Laing warned that the measure would force both Canada and the United States to “recession, loss of jobs and economic disaster.”

Mrs. Laing warned that Americans would also increase and force US companies to find alternative suppliers that said “they are less reliable than Canadians.”

Canadian provincial leaders have promised their own answers.

Ford of Ontario discussed the possibility of cutting the Canadian electricity supplies and high -grade nickel exports to the United States, as well as to put an export tax of 25% in electricity sent to energy houses in Michigan, New York and Minnesota.

Canada exports sufficient electricity to feed about six million American homes.

Ontario and other provinces have also moved to eliminate the liquor made from the shelves. In Nueva Scotia, Prime Minister Tim Houston said his province will prohibit US companies to offer for provincial contracts, just like Will Ontario.

Ford also announced that a C $ 100M contract will be canceled ($ 68 million; £ 55.1) with the Elon Musk’s satellite company.

Meanwhile, China, who now faces 20% tariffs after Trump doubled a previous tax, has promised to fight any commercial war until the “bitter end.” He has announced his own countermeasures, including rates on a variety of agricultural and food products from the United States.