the canadian prime minister expresses shock and says if president trump wants to usher in a new golden age with canada, not to punish us. and warns against delays. they will retaliate,

after president donald trump canada's prime minister justin trudeau has said duties on us goods. mr trump says the "pain" americans will face with lower taxes, better military protection and no tariffs. canadian prime ministerjustin trudeau and mexican president on the phone on saturday. the stroke of a pen. canada has hit back. the prime minister warned the impact would be huge. tariffs against canada

will put yourjobs at risk. oil imports, however, will be taxed at 10%. he says he will absolutely impose some kind of tariff but there has been no word on the uk, which broadly imports and exports the same amount. saying it was needed to put pressure on countries to stop but the risk is big.

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moment and i doubt we can get people from the other parties the current government. i = -= milan? 7 77 {hill/5.47155; 77 vigil/lula} 7 77 what would7 be a good idea —e to get 7 to get parliament would be to get parliament back. you may know this, : w—wew but canada's parliament is prorogued, at prorogued, suspended at the moment. i think for the sake of moment. ithinisfor the saise of unity moment. ithinisfor th2 saise of unity it would good national unity it would be good to show our are functioning. actoallyfonctioning. the here you would have problem here is you would have to get an agreement the to get an agreement with the opposition parties not to bring down the at the down the government at the first opportunity because an right in the of crisis is the last thing canadians or want. canadians orwant. i that canadians need or want. i think the government should do it can to 7 it can to try to a national consensus. we build a national consensus. we have some good have some pretty good agreements with our provinces. agreements with ourprovinces. are very (lug lbggovigces are very in our (lug lpygovigces are very in our federation and important in our federation and they are playing on the same team with federal team with the federal government. i think there is a good common 7 good common front and pretty good common front and we've got some very able canadians who know how to play

canadians who knowhow to play game. we have negotiated this game. we have negotiated with trump in the past in 2019 and got successful and got a successful agreement. not beyond the bounds of it's not beyond the bounds of possibility that after he has gogsjbjtity that after he has a from extracted a certain—price from that we will end up in a us that we will end up in a negotiation that this negotiation that settles this matter but i think we also have be prepared this might on for 7— 7777 7on for monts and7777m go on for months and months and and then �*course go on for months and months and and then �* course the months. and then of course the cost to american and 22�*2�* te hee geek?“ enef77 77 777 77777 777 777 economies be test ste the tith�*er'2eh ehef77 77 777 77777 777 777 economies be very canadian economies will be very severe. and the to severe. and the disruption to the global will start isbglss. ,. ,..-.- . béfefi a... . 7 world already of the world are already feeling some sort of pressure from donald trump, namely from donald tru mp." namely panama from donald trumprnamely panama and mexico, greenlandrpanamaend si�*s�*iexico, in greenlandrpanamaend si�*s�*iexico. in the western how wise would it for how wise would it for those how wise would it for7those7777how not. uld it be for those countries, for those territories to club together to push back? those territories to clu