Trudeau urges U.S. consumers to consider the harm of Trump's tariff threats

Trudeau told MSNBC: "No American wants to pay 25% more for electricity or oil and gas coming in from Canada. That’s something I think people need to pay a little more attention to.”

What a joke! No one was more hostile to the Canadian oil and gas industry than Trudeau himself.

US consumers don't get another vote until 2028. The extra costs can be a surprise gift for them. Everyone likes surprises.

Retaliatory tariffs would just harm Canadian consumers. Idiot policy - the machismo of self-harm. Let the Canadian people enjoy cheap American products and pivot Canadian exports away from the US (pop. 334 million) to the rest of the world (pop. 7,690 million).

If Trump wants to close the US/Canada land border unilaterally, he can. He controls one side of it. He can employ Americans and build a wall. The Chinese built one centuries ago. Surely America has caught up with them by now?

quote: Trudeau announced an increase in spending on border security.

Trump is a classic bully. Appeasement doesn't work. He can pay for his own wall.

I suspect, like Biden, Trudeau has clung on too long for his party to recover the ground he lost them.