Breitbart reporting:
Canadian Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre announced a sprawling national plan to address President Donald Trump's 25-percent tariffs.
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Much longer story than quoted below but this guy does seem to make a lot of sense.
Canada Conservatives Campaign Against Trump: Tariffs ‘Unjust and Unjustified’
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Canadian Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre announced a sprawling national plan to address President Donald Trump’s 25-percent tariffs on Canadian goods this weekend, condemning them as “unjust and unjustified” against America’s “best friend.”
President Trump announced a plan shortly before his inauguration to impose 25-percent tariffs on Mexico and Canada, as well as a ten-percent tariff on Chinese goods, in response to the ongoing mass migration and organized crime crisis on America’s borders and China’s outsized role in fueling the North American fentanyl trade.
“This Tariff will remain in effect until such time as Drugs, in particular Fentanyl, and all Illegal Aliens stop this Invasion of our Country!” Trump promised in November, when he initially stated he would impose the tariffs on his first day in office.
Once in office, Trump said on Inauguration Day that he would give the countries in question until February 1 to take meaningful measures to stop crime on our borders and curtail the fentanyl trade or face the tariffs. The tariffs went into effect on Saturday.
Canada is in a uniquely weak position to address the tariffs. It currently does not have a functional parliament as radical leftist Prime Minister Justin Trudeau used a provision known as prorogation to paralyze the Parliament through March 24. Trudeau’s poor handling of the tariff threat resulted in political pressure forcing him to resign from the prime ministership and the leadership of the Liberal Party; the prorogation allows the Liberals to choose a new leader and comfortably regroup before expected general elections this year. Without a lawmaking body, Trudeau can only use executive action to address the crisis.
Poilievre, widely believed to be the frontrunner to replace Trudeau as prime minister, issued a speech condemning Trump from imposing the tariffs but subtly accepting the premise of the sanctions by calling for Canada to strengthen security on its border and fight the fentanyl trade, the issues that prompted the tariffs. In a speech on Sunday, Poilievre – likely aware of how Trudeau’s apparent weakness on the tariff issue tanked his political career – categorically condemned the tariffs and launched a plan to dramatically boost domestic trade in an attempt to make Canada less dependent on the American market.
“Common Sense Conservatives condemn President Trump’s massive, unjust and unjustified tariffs which will damage both American and Canadian economies,” Poilievre proclaimed, calling Canada America’s “closest neighbor, greatest ally, and best friend.”
“We share the longest undefended border and fought alongside Americans in two world wars, Korea and Afghanistan, where 158 of our brave men and women died helping the U.S. avenge the 9/11 attacks,” Poilievre declared. “There is no justification whatsoever for these tariffs this treatment.”
“You are our friends, you are our neighbors,” he continued. “We share the longest undefended border in the history of the world … You have a trade surplus with us when energy is excluded and, when it is included, the deal is even better for you because you buy our oil and our gas at massive price discounts.”
“Not because we’re nice Canadians, but because here at home we’ve made really dumb decisions to prevent us from exporting our energy to any other countries,” he explained. “Either way, Americans are better off with this friendship.”
Rather than blame Trump for Canada’s economic woes, Poilievre asserted that Canada was “in this position because we sell twice as much to the Americans as we sell to themselves,” decrying onerous regulations that prevent a significant volume of inter-provincial trade.
STORY CONTINUES at Breitbart News link above ^^^
, my lord Canadian government, grow the hell up and act like an adult.
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