Canadian Sen. Patrick Brazeau challenged Donald Trump Jr. to a charity boxing fit over the “bogus” price lists carried out this week via his father, President Trump.
“I know, I still can’t believe it myself. But I no longer smoke and have been sober for almost 5 years,” the Quebec-based senator mentioned in a Thursday submit on X.
“In light of these bogus tariffs from President @realDonaldTrump from the U.S. onto Canada, I challenge you to a fight to raise money for cancer research or an organization of your choosing,” the senator added.
Brazeau misplaced to Canada’s High Minister Justin Trudeau in a 2012 boxing fit.
The senator’s problem to Trump’s son comes as tensions between the U.S. and Canada had been simmering during the last few weeks.
The commander-in-chief imposed a 25-percent tariff on items coming from Mexico and Canada, along side a 10-percent levy on Chinese language items. Trump mentioned all 3 nations had to do extra to curb the volume of fentanyl coming over the border.
On Thursday, he mentioned he used to be halting price lists on imports from Mexico and Canada lined underneath the 2020 U.S.-Mexico-Canada Settlement (USMCA). The exemption is ready to final till April 2. Price lists on Canadian potash, a an important fertilizer component, would drop from 25 % to ten %.
“That includes autos, and the autos were the lead in getting this done, but also Canada and Mexico have done a good job offering us ever more work to prove to us they’re going to cut the fentanyl deaths,” Trade Secretary Howard Lutnick said.
Lutnick mentioned that once April 2, “we’re going to move into the reciprocal tariff, and hopefully Mexico and Canada will have done a good enough job on fentanyl that this part of the conversation will be off the table, and we’ll move just to the reciprocal tariff conversation.”
Brazeau mentioned on Thursday that Washington and Ottawa “don’t need to be at war but we can fight to raise money.”
He additionally argued that price lists “don’t have anything to do” with the inflow of fentanyl within the U.S.
“It has to do with our oil, freshwater, minerals, resources and our Arctic, just but to name a few,” the senator wrote.
