After President Trump imposed tariffs on Canada on Tuesday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made an extraordinary statement that was largely lost in the fray of the moment.
“The excuse that he’s giving for these tariffs today of fentanyl is completely bogus, completely unjustified, completely false,” Mr. Trudeau told the news media in Ottawa.
“What he wants is to see a total collapse of the Canadian economy, because that’ll make it easier to annex us,” he added.
This is the story of how Mr. Trudeau went from thinking Mr. Trump was joking when he referred to him as “governor” and Canada as “the 51st state” in early December to publicly stating that Canada’s closest ally and neighbor was implementing a strategy of crushing the country in order to take it over.
As dictated by Katie Telford to the NYTimes. I suggest No Trudeau. No problem. And believe nothing the Liberal party says.
Here is vid evidence @realDonaldTrump that Trudeau – Carney Liberals are campaigning on the Tariffs and I am skeptical if Justin Trudeau is really going anywhere. This was AFTER Trudeau claimed to "resign," when he actually ONLY promised to someday resign in the future and… https://t.co/awMefUhUrN pic.twitter.com/mWH4AIoI5u
— David Krayden (@DavidKrayden) March 5, 2025
