Canada’s Member of Parliament Charlie Angus hammered President Trump’s wide-ranging tariff time table, arguing the financial system is “bigger and broader and smarter than your stupidity right now” and that Ottawa will stay pushing again.
Angus, a member of the New Democratic Birthday celebration, mentioned that Canada is open to normalizing industry family members with the U.S., however the price lists need to be rescinded first.
“We want to go back to working with the communities on the other side of the border that we’ve worked with for generations, who are our friends, who are our neighbors, but if you’re going to make them our enemy, well, Donald, we’re going to fight you the whole way, and you’re going to lose,” Angus mentioned all the way through his Monday look on MeidasTouch Community.
“You can’t keep control of your economy as it is Donald,” Angus advised host Ben Meiselas. “It’s starting to turn into a total circus. You got to understand, Donald, that the economy is something bigger and broader and smarter than your stupidity right now.”
Trump has escalated his tariff conflict in contemporary weeks. He imposed a 25 p.c tariff on all aluminum and metal imports. The president additionally slapped a 25 p.c tariff on different items coming from Canada and Mexico with some exceptions. Each nations, at the side of China, are the U.S.’s biggest industry companions.
The commander-in-chief has additionally persisted his rhetoric calling for Canada to be the U.S.’s 51st state. Each the heightened import tax and rhetoric have enraged Canadians, a few of whom have began boycotting U.S. items.
“I’ve been talking to a lot of people who are deeply uncertain, but what I also get is the sense of rage that Donald Trump is trying to rip this up and trying to divide communities that you know from my regions, like London, Oshawa, Windsor, that have been tied to Detroit, to Lansing, to Toledo,” Angus mentioned. “There’s a real anger right now.”
Angus prior to now slammed Trump for suggesting that Canada will have to sign up for the U.S. as its 51st state, arguing “the issue is that Donald Trump is claiming Canada is a narco-state. The man’s a liar.”
“We would do that to avoid a trade war,” Angus mentioned final month. “We’re reasonable as Canadians, but when you have somebody threatening our sovereignty, well, we’re hunkering down for a fight here.”
