Toronto – As Canadians absorb US President Donald Trump’s trade war and their threats to make Canada a 51st state, one thing has become abundant: one of the most durable and cordial alliances in the world – geography, one of the world’s most durable and cordial alliances – Birth of centuries of heritage and centuries for centuries.
Trump has been feeling an undisputed feeling of canadian betrayal after Trump declared the US northern neighbor and a long time after declaring a trade war against a colleague. Trump keeps threatening Canada’s sovereignty and is ready to broaden 25% tariffs on Canadian products on Tuesday. Discussions and rejections are everywhere. Fans of Canadian hockey are also increasing the US national anthem in the recent National Hockey League Games.
Addressing the nation in the last weekend, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau broadcast of betrayal that many canadai, reminding the Americans, that Canadian soldiers fought with them in Afghanistan and fought with a wildfier for a storm in California and California Help responded to innumerable crises. “We were always standing with you, with you, sad with American people,” he said.
“The loss is going to last longer,” said Robert Bothwell, a professor of Canadian history and international relations at the University of Toronto. “Americans will no longer be trusted. The 51st state goods are just contempt. It treats Canada as we are not present. ,
How, they ask, is Canada problem?
The relations between the two countries are without parallel. Approximately $ 3.6 billion Canadian (US $ 2.5 billion) prices of goods and services cross the limit each day. Canada is a top export destination for 36 American states and 77% of Canada’s exports go to the United States. Each day, around 400,000 people cross the world’s longest international border. Defense, border security and law enforcement have close collaboration, and there is a huge overlap in culture, traditions and past.
“He wants to come after us?” Doug Ford, the leader of the most populous province of Ontario, Canada, said. He has said that it seems that a family member is stabbing the heart. Ford says: “I have not yet heard an American citizen that Canada is a problem.”
Some Canadian canadian products are broadcast a list of which they can buy instead of American goods and cancel a holiday plan for the United States. The US Travel Association said that tariffs on Canada can affect and spend the tour of Canada in the United States, given that Canada is the top source of international visitors in the United States, with 20.4 million visits last year .
“Now what he is doing is unprecedented and is highly harmful to the relationship. … He is eradicating the confidence of Canadian people towards America, which will make it difficult to fix the relationship, “said Daniel Belan, a political science professor at McGill University in Montreal. He says that many Canadian Trump’s dangers And feel betrayed by attitude, especially because the two countries have long enjoyed strong economic, cultural and geographical relations.
“It is definitely one of the worst moments in Canada-America relationship since the construction of Canada in 1867,” said Belarland. “His point about making Canada the 51st state is a direct attack against the country’s sovereignty. Even if we exclude that danger, it does not show any respect for Canada’s sovereignty and institutions. ,
Canadian officials said that they are implementing 25% per anti -counter tariffs in US imports including beverages, cosmetics and paper products. A second phase will be even more punished.
Trudeau hoped that Trump would not “punish” Canada. Trump and Mexican President Claudia Shinbam put their planned tariff on Monday for a month to give time for further conversation, and Mexico said that he said that he deploys 10,000 members of his national guard to address drug smuggling is planned.
Trudeau mentioned that the United States and Canada have ever seen the world the most successful economic, military and safety partnerships have been created – a relationship that he says, the world’s jealousy.
“As President John F. Kennedy said many years ago, geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends, economics has made us partner and the need has made us ally, ”he said.
Close to colleagues, bumble rides?
Trump has also planned to impose 10% tariffs on Canadian energy. Underlining possible effects, Canada provides more oil to the United States than 4.3 million barrels a day. According to the US Energy Information Administration, the US consumes about 20 million barrels a day. It is producing about 13.2 million barrels.
Nevertheless, Trump keeps saying that the United States does not need Canada for anything and said again on Monday that he wanted to see Canada becoming a 51st state. And his vice -president also rejected Canada.
“I have a Sob story about how Canada is our best friend. “I love Canada and are many Canadian friends. But is the government meeting its NATO target for military expenses? Are they stopping the flow of drugs in our country?” Posted on X.
Canada announced a billion-dollar plan to secure the border, even though very few migrants and less drugs enter the US via Canada than Mexico.
A senior Canadian government official said that Canada could not believe that he may avoid Lump Tariff on Tuesday as Mexico on Tuesday, as it seems that goal posts make more changes for Canada than Mexico. Officers, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, were not authorized to speak publicly.
With most intimate relationships, there are rough stains before. Limited trade wars on wood, pulp and paper, and other products have shut down and closed over decades. In the early 1960s, President John F. There was a bitter crack between Kennedy and Prime Minister John Defenbekar due to personal enmity, which stressed American pressure to become more aggressive in the Cold War maneuver.
The Vietnam War later welcomed some divisions, the then Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, the American Draft Evider, as Canadian’s father, the father of Justin Trudeau. And some Canadians, especially Ontario intellectuals, consider Americans more cross and gun-minded than people in the north of the border.
Trump attacked Canada’s trade and Prime Minister during his first term. But now nothing like. Trump posted that Canada would be present as a “viable country” if there is no “large -scale subsidy” from America
Trump posted on social media, “Canada should become our 51st state.” Per respected globe and mail reporter Steve Chase: “It is a hostile exotic power to say to Canada to present for anxation.”
The NBA continued in the game in Bouwing Toronto, where the raptors played Los Angeles Clips. In the raptors game, a fan chose to sit during the anthem while wearing a Canadian cap. Joseph Chua, who works as an importer, said he expects the tariff to feel “straight”.
“I always stood during both songs. I have removed my hat to show respect for the American national anthem, ”he said. “But today we are feeling a bit bitter about things.”