Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told business leaders at the Canadian US Economic Summit in Toronto that US President Donald Trump’s threat to Annex Canada is “real.”
“Trump keeps in mind that the easiest way to do that is to absorb our country and that’s true.
The Prime Minister gave a speech to business leaders after delivering the opening address to the summit on Friday morning and outlined the important issues the country is facing when business relations between Canada and the US came .
After the opening address, the media arrived from the room. This is when the microphone remained featured in something that was intended to be heard only in a closed room.
Labor Minister and Government Rep. Stephen McKinnon said Canada may have political differences with different regions, but the country “are united in one thing: Canadians “I’m proud to be.”
“Canada is free, Canada is sovereign, Canada chooses its own destiny. Thank you. But Canada is forever. Canada will make that choice,” he said. .
“We will always stand up, always, always, for this country, for its people, and for our own ability to make our choices.”
With Trudeau’s opening address to the summit, he said Canada needs both a tactical response to Trump’s tariff threat in the short term and a strategy to deal with the uncooperative US in the long term. I stated.
“It’s the moment we have to meet for Canadians. Not only do we see how we can overcome this particular challenge over the next 30 days or months, but how will we thrive and prosper in the next 30 days? , thrive, grow, four years, and it could be a more challenging long-term political situation for the United States,” Trudeau said.
To succeed on both of these fronts, Trudeau said he will discuss how summit participants will do three important things. Trade is already dealt with European partners and Pacific Rims.
After a tense weekend, Trump announced Monday afternoon that he had shelved his promise to impose a 25% tariff on Canadian goods for at least a month, with Canada addressing Trump’s border security and crime concerns I proposed a plan.
Trudeau said earlier this week that despite the reprieve, concerns remained, with the Canadian and US Economic Summit saying “murning our economy, generating more jobs and greater pay, building within the borders and He said he would find ways to make transactions easier and diversify the export market.
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Canadian business leaders are easier to do business with other countries than other states, mainly due to technical barriers such as alcohol sales, vehicle weight standards, and regulatory barriers such as licensing and document requirements. I have been complaining about it for a long time.
The prime minister said on Friday that all Canadian prime ministers hope to drop internal trade barriers Trudeau says “no point.”
“We have to move forward with that,” Trudeau said Friday. “This is one of the moments and opportunities we can actually do. The windows are open for the context we are in, so we have to jump over it.”
In order to get a truly internal free trade agreement, Trudeau said, governments and business leaders demand that they “step up and push hard and make sure they actually move forward with free trade within Canada at this moment.” He said that.
====Trades from “Strength Location”
“Can we be wiped out in 30 days?” Internal Trade Minister Anita Anand said at a press conference on Wednesday.
“The short answer to your question is yes,” she replied.
Trudeau also said he must accept that Canadians’ proximity to the US means we will trade North and South for years to come.
“We are always profitable and are being challenged by trade with the US,” he said. “It will always be a huge chunk of our economy.”
Trudeau said that to be successful, Canada is “intentionally and strategic” about how it will forget its business partnership with the US in terms of key mineral and energy transactions to ensure that both countries win. He said it must be.
“These are things we can see on purpose, and what we see,” Trudeau said. “We’re always going to do business with the US. Can you make sure we’re doing that from a strength standpoint?”
Trudeau said it needs to make sure Canada is “using incredible trade transactions.”
“It’s not enough to sign a trade agreement. Then you need to follow up on it with a trade mission, actual investments and partnerships,” Trudeau said.
The Prime Minister said the summit will attempt to tackle ways in which Canada can obtain more trade agreements from free trade deals with the EU, opening new markets and diversifying its supply chains.
“There’s a moment when we should talk about it,” he said.
Conservatives say Trudeau should remember Congress, not hosting a summit
Conservative MP Michael Barrett is a party critic of the ethical and accountable government, and instead of holding a summit in Ottawa, Trudeau recalls Congress, saying that legislators’ Canadians’ retweets against Trump in the House He said the response should be allowed to be discussed.
“What issues will be more important than what Trudeau’s performance in Toronto today is addressing?” Barrett said Friday in the House Foyer.
Barrett said there is an important question to ask Trudeau, but “he is hiding behind a locked door.”
Asked if his party is willing to postpone the vote of confidence in order to tackle legislative response to Trump’s tariffs, it will overthrow the government, Barrett will deal with his response to Trump I said it could be.” We’ve had to rest, we can address the issue of confidence. ”
Barrett said the plan should be based on a proposal from conservative leader Pierre Polyereble to pass tax cuts, abolish the ban on BC Coast tankers and secure borders. Ta.
(Source: CBC)