PM Mark Carney said that all trade conversations are off unless Trump stops fantasizing aloud about the 51st state. Meanwhile, #CanadianBoycotts continue to gain steam. pic.twitter.com/lPJbfBoscd
— Pouseé 🦫🇨🇦🦫Comitata (@epaldelta) March 19, 2025
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney wrote on X: “My meeting with the Council on Canada-U.S. Relations was focused on keeping Canada’s economy strong in the face of unjust tariffs. We’re ready to engage with the U.S. on a comprehensive negotiation—when Canada is shown respect as a sovereign nation.”
U.S. President Donald Trump told Fox News’ Laura Ingraham: “I deal with every country, indirectly or directly. One of the nastiest countries to deal with is Canada. … Trudeau—I call him Governor Trudeau—his people were nasty, and they weren’t telling the truth. They never told the truth.”
Adam Chapnick, a professor of defense studies at the Royal Military College of Canada, previously told Newsweek: “Canada and its allies must take the president’s threats seriously so as not to allow them to become normalized among his extraordinarily loyal base, but the likelihood of Washington putting serious resources into taking Canada over remains slim to none. I suspect that the president will continue to speak longingly of taking over Canada because it gets such a rise out of Canadians, and he enjoys the attention and the ability to exert power, even if only through unrealistic threats.”
https://www.newsweek.com/mark-carney-donald-trump-canada-tariffs-51st-state-2047654