Lame Duck Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced that Canada will respond to the rates of Donald Trump – who will come into effect on Tuesday midnight – with some of their own.
Trump promised to move forward on Thursday with plans to impose punitive rates on Mexico and Canada, because drugs still flow in from those countries.
Trudeau, who will leave this year at a certain moment after he has announced that he will not seek re -election, confirmed that his country will fight fire with fire.
Canada will impose 25 percent rates on more than $ 100 billion in American goods as long as the American rates remain in place.
It corresponds to the surcharge of 25 percent for goods from the border countries that come into effect on 4 March, Trump repeated in a position on his social social website on Monday.
They will also place 10 percent rates on the energy of the country. The rates will take effect in three weeks.
“Let me be unambiguously clear – there is no justification for these actions,” Trudeau said in a statement.
His actions follow the promise of Ontario Prime Minister Doug Ford to also throw rates on Canadian goods.
Lame Duck Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced that Canada will respond to the rates of Donald Trump – who will come into effect on Tuesday midnight – with some of their own
Trump promised to move forward on Thursday with plans to impose punishing rates on Mexico and Canada, because drugs still flow into the US from those countries
Trudeau defended Trump's fentanyl claims and said that less than a percent of the substance that is intercepted on the border comes from Canada.
He noted that Fentanyl attacks from Canada fell by 97 percent in a period of a month from December 2024 to January 2025 after naming a 'Fentanyl Tsar' and launching other measures.
“Our rates will remain in force until the American trade action has been withdrawn, and if the American rates are not stopping, we are in active and continuous discussions with provinces and areas to follow various non-tariff measures,” he said.
Trudeau started contact with the Trump government to stop the rates, but said that his country will stand up for our economy, our jobs, our employees and for a fair deal. '
'Because of the US rates imposed by the US, Americans will pay more for groceries, gas and cars, and possibly lose thousands of jobs. Rates will disrupt an incredibly successful trade relationship. They will break the trade agreement that was negotiated by President Trump in his last term, “he said.
Dailymail.com has contacted the White House for comments.
Trump said earlier on Monday that he would impose an extra service of 10 percent on March 4 on March 4, so that the rate was levied at the start of this month.
“Drugs still flow in our country from Mexico and Canada at very high and unacceptable levels,” Trump posted on his social media site.
Trudeau, who will leave this year at a certain moment after he has announced that he will not seek re -election, confirmed that his country will fight fire with fire
Trump said earlier on Monday that he would impose an extra service of 10 percent on March 4 on March 4, so that the rate was raised at the start of this month
“A large percentage of these drugs, many of them in the form of Fentanyl, is made in and supplied by China.”
Trump had delayed the rates after Canada and Mexico said they took border security seriously.
And in other cases, Trump used the threat of charges to get his foreign policy.
But he used his social social post to say that time was gone.
“We cannot allow this scourge to continue to harm the US, and therefore, until it stops or is seriously limited, the proposed rates that are planned to get into force in indeed, indeed, as planned,” he wrote.
“On that date, China will also be charged an extra rate of 10 percent.”
His comments go a way to clarify what he said the day before during his first meeting of the new cabinet in the White House.
Then he seemed to suggest that the rates could be postponed for a month.
Trump used his social report to say that drugs' still flowed into the US
But other civil servants said that for a different rates of rates, 'mutual rates', matching tasks imposed by other countries.
Kevin Hassett, director of the White House National Economic Council, said CNBC that Trump would decide on his 'rate policy for all countries' after an assessment expected on 1 April.
The prospect of escalating rates and trade wars has already sent tickles through the global economy.
Consumers say they are afraid of rising prices and are pessimistic about the economic prospects.
The Canadian and Mexican officers will meet the counterparts of Trump administration on Thursday and Friday to try to go any extra rates.
Trump has taken an opponent, often mocking attitude towards Canada since winning in November, in which Trump suggests that he wanted to make The US ' Northern neighbor the 51st state.
Sensitivities are always high in the midst of Trump's repeated trolls from Trudeau about his desire to make Canada a state, insisting that it is also the will of the Canadian audience and refers to him as a 'governor'.
Tamara Davidson, the Minister of Environment and Parks of British Columbia, said that voters had raised the issue with her and she asked Google update to clarify that these are 'provincial parks'.
A fan of Canada has a flag earlier this month
“We understand the worries that this has expressed in the context of recent events – and let's be clear, we will never be the 51st state,” she said.
Canada is a country of about forty million people split into ten provinces and three areas.
If it became one enormous state as Trump called, it would be the most populated state alongside California.
Trudeau has repeatedly hit back at the suggestion and claims that it 'will never happen'.
“Canadians define themselves a whole series of different ways, but one of the ways we all use as Steno is” We are Canadian because we are not American, “said Trudeau during a visit to Washington, DC.
“That is not going to change.”
Trump's plan has divided the neighboring countries, as can be seen during a recent hockey game between the United States and Canada.
Canadian fans fascinated the American national anthem in Montreal during the tournament and American fans returned the favor during 'O Canada' at the 4 Nations Face-Off final in Boston.
Justin Trudeau was completely mocked after he celebrated Canada's victory against the United States with a brutal wipe to Donald Trump
The national anthem himself was changed by a Canadian singer as a form of protest against Trump.
After Connor McDavid scored the game-winning overtime, Trudeau published a challenging message to Trump and the United States: 'You can't take our country and you can't take our game in English and in Quebecois Frans.
While some congratulated Trudeau with the victory of Canada, many closed the prime minister for his response.
'You won a hockey game. You have lost your country. '
