{"id":11817,"date":"2025-01-10T11:38:39","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T11:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/10\/trumps-threat-to-make-canada-the-51st-state-a-distraction-from-tariff-fallout-trudeau-says\/"},"modified":"2025-01-10T11:38:39","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T11:38:39","slug":"trumps-threat-to-make-canada-the-51st-state-a-distraction-from-tariff-fallout-trudeau-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/10\/trumps-threat-to-make-canada-the-51st-state-a-distraction-from-tariff-fallout-trudeau-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s threat to make Canada the 51st state a distraction from tariff fallout, Trudeau says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm5pv2scb004u2bpbce8cg66x@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday that President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s comments about turning Canada into the United States\u2019 51st state are just a distraction from the consequences of Trump\u2019s tariff threats.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm5pv2zkg00053b6mbw8mmgov@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Trudeau, who announced earlier this week he would resign as prime minister once his party had chosen his successor, told Tapper that Canada becoming another US state was \u201cnot going to happen.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm5pv2zkg00073b6mfpv3okre@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Trump in November promised massive hikes in tariffs on goods coming from Mexico, Canada and China starting on the first day of his administration.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm5pv2zkg00083b6metmvybf9@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            \u201cOn January 20th, as one of my many first Executive Orders, I will sign all necessary documents to charge Mexico and Canada a 25% Tariff on ALL products coming into the United States, and its ridiculous Open Borders,\u201d Trump posted on his Truth Social platform. \u201cThis Tariff will remain in effect until such time as Drugs, in particular Fentanyl, and all Illegal Aliens stop this Invasion of our Country!\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm5pv2zkg00093b6mzw03kczh@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            That policy that could sharply increase costs for American businesses and consumers, a fact Trudeau was quick to point out Thursday. Canada, Mexico and China are the US\u2019s biggest trade partners.     <\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/youtube\/instances\/cm5pw5pxu00013b6m8wy46pld@published\" data-editable=\"settings\" data-component-name=\"youtube\">\n<aside class=\"youtube__aspect-ratio-container\">\n<div id=\"dOyF9YGv\" data-video-id=\"CTP1Lp6rI3A\" class=\"youtube__content player\">\t\t<span class=\"youtube__video-title\">Trudeau responds to Trump needling him about annexing Canada<\/span>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube__video-thumbnail-play-button\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm5pv2zkg000a3b6mt1cnb8of@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            \u201cEverything the American consumers buy from Canada is suddenly going to get a lot more expensive if he moves forward on these tariffs,\u201d Trudeau said.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm5pv2zkg000b3b6mhpfv58lb@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Trudeau stressed that Canadians \u201care incredibly proud of being Canadian. One of the ways we define ourselves most easily is, well, we\u2019re not American.\u201d    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday that President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s comments about turning Canada into the United States\u2019 51st state are just a distraction from the consequences of Trump\u2019s tariff threats. Trudeau, who announced earlier this week he would resign as prime minister once his party had chosen his successor, told Tapper that Canada <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11818,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11817","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}