{"id":12925,"date":"2025-02-08T11:38:29","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T11:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/08\/trumps-threat-to-annex-canada-a-real-thing-trudeau-tells-business-leaders\/"},"modified":"2025-02-08T11:38:29","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T11:38:29","slug":"trumps-threat-to-annex-canada-a-real-thing-trudeau-tells-business-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/08\/trumps-threat-to-annex-canada-a-real-thing-trudeau-tells-business-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s threat to annex Canada \u2018a real thing,\u2019 Trudeau tells business leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm6v7tua5001h3b6mg9w1zbze@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Trudeau\u2019s comments, first reported by the Toronto Star, were picked up on an open microphone when Trudeau believed the media had been escorted out.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm6v7tua5001i3b6mkkcya0v2@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            \u201cMr. Trump has it in mind that the easiest way to do it is absorbing our country and it is a real thing. In my conversations with him on\u2026,\u201d Trudeau said, according to audio from the Canada-US Economic Summit in Toronto shared by CBC News, before the microphone cut out.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm6v7tua5001j3b6moltegu4d@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Trudeau made the comments after delivering an opening address at the summit, and after journalists had left the room, CBC reported.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm6v7l5xl000u3b6mvs2863ir@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            He added 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\/cm6v7d4nt000f3b6mym1dae6q@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Trump followed through with his threats to impose tariffs on Canada last week, announcing a new 25% duty on most Canadian goods imported into the US. However, after Trudeau made commitments to bolster security at Canada\u2019s border, Trump announced Monday a pause on the proposed tariffs for at least a month.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm6v7lm1y000x3b6moj6dqdtl@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            After a call with Trump, Trudeau said Canada would be implementing its previously announced $1.3 billion border plan, as well as committing to appointing a \u201cfentanyl czar\u201d and listing cartels as terrorists.    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trudeau\u2019s comments, first reported by the Toronto Star, were picked up on an open microphone when Trudeau believed the media had been escorted out. \u201cMr. Trump has it in mind that the easiest way to do it is absorbing our country and it is a real thing. In my conversations with him on\u2026,\u201d Trudeau said, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12926,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12925","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\/12925","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=12925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}