Iran Press/America: "Isn't a snowball's chance in hell' Canada joins US, Trudeau responds to Trump. The Canadian Prime Minister posted to X on Tuesday.
Justin Trudeau has rejected threats from Donald Trump that the US could use “economic force” to annex its closest ally, saying: “There isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell that Canada would become part of the United States.
“Workers and communities in both our countries benefit from being each other’s biggest trading and security partner,” Canada’s prime minister wrote on social media.
Trump’s musings on Tuesday came as he doubled down on threats to impose protectionist tariffs on one of the US’s biggest trading partners.
“Canada and the United States: that would be something,” he said from Florida but warned his incoming administration was getting frustrated over what the president-elected called “subsidies” for Canada.
“We’ve been good neighbors, but we can’t do it forever, and it’s a tremendous amount of money,” he said.
Canada’s foreign minister, Mélanie Joly, also pushed back, writing on social media that Trump’s comments showed a “complete lack of understanding of what makes Canada a strong country”. She said Canada “will never back down in the face of threats”.
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