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What's Going On In Canada?

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I've continued to follow up on Justin Trudeau's March 4 remarks about Trump's "dumb" tariff threat , in large part because there's been so little long-form written analysis: Speaking to reporters at a news conference on Parliament Hill, Trudeau said Trump is trying to prompt "a total collapse of the Canadian economy" because he thinks that will "make it easier to annex us," something the U.S. president has repeatedly said he wants to do. But Trudeau said that will never happen because "when it comes to defending our great nation, there is no price we all aren't willing to pay." Trudeau said Canada will not back down from a fight in the face of "completely bogus and completely unjustified" trade action that has the potential to ruin bilateral relations and prompt job losses, economic devastation and higher inflation on both sides of the border. This stemmed from earlier exchanges between the two : ...