Trump's strongman tact dashes Trudeau's hopes for a trade war

Trudeau wanted a trade war to demonstrate supposed virtue before his reign of terror ends.


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Tonight, on The Ezra Levant Show, Donald Trump threatens tariffs on Canada and Mexico. But just for a couple of days. Are we out of the woods yet?

It all started last November 26, when Trump held Canada and Mexico responsible for fentanyl deaths in the United States. He also blamed them for a migrant surge at the border, including suspected terrorists entering through the northern border.

As president-elect, he got to work demanding they fix the problem, though Mexico was the biggest culprit by far. Regardless, Trump made a power play -- give me strong borders or else.

After taunting out-going Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for months, the embattled figure finally capitulated to Trump's demands. 

"For months, Donald Trump taunted Justin Trudeau about being the governor of the 51st state of Canada," said Ezra. "It clearly rattled Trudeau and the entire political media establishment. So Justin Trudeau declared a Team Canada approach. ... with no democratic mandate."

Trudeau announced his intent to resign on March 9 after dissolving parliament to avoid democratic accountability. "And he put together a Canada-U.S. Trade Council, which was purely political and had very little to do with trade."

Meanwhile, inauguration day rolls along and Trump threatens 25% tariffs on Canada, having moved the benchmark twice. Once to February 1 and again on Monday by one month.  

"We weren't actual players in the arena," Ezra notes. Premier Danielle Smith understood this, calling for a new border czar without all the anti-American rhetoric. Meanwhile, Trudeau and his cohort wanted to demonstrate how virtuous they are before he relinquishes his power as prime minister. 

"Clearly, the whole purpose was to have the war," said Ezra, who claims that was easy to discern. "Most Canadian politicians wanted that to happen. They wanted that for their own selfish reasons. Canadians are obsessed with Donald Trump, as are all people on planet Earth."

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  • Colin Cramton
    commented 2025-02-04 09:20:30 -0500
    Excellent perspective! Great show!
  • Geek Doc
    commented 2025-02-04 05:10:47 -0500
    UK here – Canada has a promising future with Poilievre but this whole parliament being shut down and an election possibly being extended is wild.
  • Bernhard Jatzeck
    commented 2025-02-04 00:36:54 -0500
    Trudeau put on his Mr. Tough Guy act and thought that he would “stare down” Trump (like he promised he’d do with Putin, should there ever be a confrontation). So, Trump, an experienced deal-maker, called Trudeau’s bluff. I’m sure our PM quickly realized that he was out of his depth and was dealing with a master.
  • Shaun Morrison
    commented 2025-02-03 23:31:46 -0500
    And what of the HA in the ports? , Red Scorpions, The UN Gang and all the puppet gangs, like the Devils Anus’s slithering around. It will all be lip service and a few busts and then back to business as usual on both sides of the borders. Look at the last 4 years and counting, the governments US & Canada have been the biggest drug dealers, human traffickers and murderers of their own tax payers, c’mon people, more covax please, more terrible food standards, more terrible education, more DEI, more drugs to mess children up and convert them from boys to girls and visa versa.; Liberals and or the NDP, my money is on organized crime for a better safer future as long as these two exist.
  • Lillian Kelly
    commented 2025-02-03 22:20:34 -0500
    It was clear to me from the beginning that donald Trump said he would impose the tariffs if Canada (and Maxico) did not deal with the border issues. It is clear that we (the Canadian Government) needs to deal with the border. This has been an issue for years, not just for the USA but also for Cnada. We need to stop the drugs coming into this country, and we also have illegals crossing our border from the USA, as well as from Canada into the USA. It appears that cartels are operating in Canada to get their drugs into the USA as well as Canada. Let’s do what we need to do for Canada and the USA, and it is long overdue. It took Trump to stand up for ending this illegal immigration and drug pushing. Why hasn’t the Canadian government stopped this years ago and stood up for the people in our country? and the USA.
    We need a new prime minister asap. Pierre Poliveire seems to be the best choice. The rest of them are disgustingly dishonest to say the least.
  • Susan Ashbrook
    commented 2025-02-03 22:15:08 -0500
    I’ve heard from several sources that US banks are operating in Canada, currently. I did a quick check on the Internet and came up with Wells Fargo in Toronto (https://www.wellsfargo.com/cib/global-services/canada/) and Citibank in Ottawa (https://www.citigroup.com/global/about-us/global-presence/canada). There are most likely more.
  • Paul Scofield
    commented 2025-02-03 21:48:47 -0500
    Good points about Trump and the tarrifs, Ezra. The tarrifs were never about getting money — at least from Canada — but to get the government to move on shutting down drugs and illegal aliens crossing into the U.S. of A. Loud and sometimes obnoxious (and I voted for him three times), Trump needs to be taken more with a grain of salt, precisely like Premier Smith has done. J.D. Vance and Matt Gaetz were posting, I thnk, without having a firmer grasp of what was really going on. Hell, it is not most Canadian’s fault that Trudeau is a destroyer (like Biden was here in America).

    Hopefully people here south of the 49th Parallel will lighten up on our Canadian cousins and wish them well and no tarrifs, as the border becomes more secure and they jettison. Trudeau-the-younger and his ilk. I hope that Trump will concentrate more on acquiring Greenland and re-acquiring the Panama Canal Zone and not Canada . The Governor of the 51st State was troll-worthy to begin with, but I can see how it would hack off Canadian patriots.
  • Bruce Atchison
    commented 2025-02-03 21:42:00 -0500
    Sammy Woodhouse is doing a good job for her first attempt.

    As for the tariffs, our idiot politicians want a crisis to blame on Trump. Let’s hope that Trump can be persuaded to hold off on the tariffs until we get a real leader in charge. And I hope Pierre Poilievre takes advantage of people’s hatred of the Liberals to speak the truth about their motives and outright lies.