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Canadian Prime Minister candidate Chrystia Freeland issued a veiled threat to Trump: "Our sovereignty is not negotiable. If you hit us, we are going to hit back." https://t.co/zW7Jmftkc1
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Tariffs are being imposed without justification, as only about 0.2% of fentanyl entering the U.S. comes from Canada. If border security were truly the concern, it could be easily addressed. Canada is also affected by the smuggling of U.S. guns that lead to violence in Canadian cities, and both countries could collaborate to manage asylum seekers. The recent threat to Canadian sovereignty, suggesting Canada could become the 51st state to avoid tariffs, has angered Canadians. They value their national pride and sovereignty, and any aggressive actions will be met with a strong response. Canada wants to maintain a friendly partnership with the U.S. while standing firm on its identity.
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Speaker 0: It's Ali Vitali. I have a question for you in regards to the way that these tariffs have been put on. The Trump administration is saying that it's because they wanna stem the flow of fentanyl through borders as well as illegal immigration. But in your conversations and in the conversations that these governments are having, do you have a sense of what the Canadians would even have to say to get these tariffs removed and appease the administration?
Speaker 1: Well, thank you for the question, Ali. And the fact is it is these tariffs are being imposed truly for utterly no reason. The pretext offered is the flimsiest pretext possible, less than 1%, in fact, around 0.2% of the Fentanyl that comes into the U. S. Comes through the Canadian border.
If border security were the issue, this could be solved in 5 minutes. We want to secure border too. We would like to stop the illegal U. S. Guns that are smuggled into Canada and cause deaths on Canadian streets, and we are very happy to work together to not have asylum seekers cross in either direction.
The president has also also directly threatened our national sovereignty. He has said over the weekend that if we were to become the 51st state, there would be no tariffs. Canadians really, really, really are angry about that. And I do wanna say, we wanna be your friend. We wanna be your partner.
We wanna be your neighbor. We're good at that. We've done it for decades decades. But we are proud of our country. We're really proud to be Canadian.
Our sovereignty is not negotiable. And if you hit us, we are gonna hit back, and the whole country is gonna be proud to do that.