On Saturday night, shortly after 9 p.m. ET, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivered a speech on Parliament Hill announcing Canada’s response to a 25 per cent tariff U.S. President Donald Trump is imposing on most Canadian goods. Here’s a transcript of his remarks.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recalled a solid relationship with the U.S. built on history and necessity as he announced retaliatory tariffs in response to a trade war that surveys have found Americans aren’t eager to pursue.
Relations between Canada and the U.S. are coming under serious pressure — and that has some commentators offering an unlikely — though not impossible — solution. What if Canada joined the European Union?
Several premiers are decrying U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to impose punishing tariffs on virtually all Canadian goods and are calling for a powerful retaliatory response from Ottawa and Canada as a whole.
The first shots of the trade war between the United States and Canada have been fired. Whether it escalates beyond the planned 25 per cent tariff into a wider economic war depends upon how genuinely serious President Donald Trump is about annexation, experts say.
U.S. President Donald Trump has for months been threatening to slap tariffs on Canada and pegged Feb. 1 as the day he would implement his plan. He indicated on Friday that he intends to go ahead with his promise.
The U.S. Senate is conducting confirmation hearings for Tulsi Gabbard, Donald Trump’s nominee for director of national intelligence. Gabbard has no background in intelligence, and a history of promoting conspiracies and supporting dictators at odds with the West. Canadian intelligence experts say that could be a problem for Canada.
We still need to see the fine print. But if it matches U.S. President Donald Trump’s rhetoric of an immediate 25 per cent tariff, Canada isn’t just at risk of a recession. It faces a reordering of economic ties between the two countries built by generations since the Great Depression.
Windsor, Ont., Mayor Drew Dilkens speaks to Power & Politics about how the busiest commercial border crossing between the U.S. and Canada is responding to the tariffs President Donald Trump says will begin on Feb. 1.
U.S. President Donald Trump says he is ‘not looking for concessions’ from Canada as the White House confirmed he’s going forward with 25 per cent levies on imports from Canada on Saturday. Trump added he will ‘probably’ set tariffs on Canadian oil at 10 per cent.
