The Chrystia Freeland liberal leadership contender published on Monday what he is calling him “planning to face Trump”, a policy document that includes the threat of large tariffs on US goods so that Americans pay if they pursue the Canadian economy.
Freeland asked the federal government to take a hard line and “immediately publish a detailed list of dollars for dollars” that includes $ 200 billion in American products that could be subject to Canadian commercial action if President Donald Trump moves against This country. .
Freeland said that publishing that type of list, before Trump even collects any tariff, would be a kind of preventive strike and a way of reminding the American political establishment that after Canada will have a cost.
“Being intelligent means taking reprisals where it hurts,” Freeland said.
“If President Trump imposes tariffs of 25 percent, our counterweight must be dollar, and must be attacked precisely and painfully,” he said.
He also wants to call an “international summit” to form some type of “coalition” of harmed countries that face Trump’s threats. She said the summit should include leaders from Mexico, Denmark, Panama and the European Union.
Like Canada, Trump has threatened Mexico and the EU with punishing rates and has suggested that the United States could attach by force Greenland, a Danish territory and the Panama Canal.
“Trump believes that we are on sale and that he can push us. This is a serious moment that demands a serious plan to fight for Canada,” Freeland said.
Hopeful liberal leadership Chrystia Freeland says that dollar tariffs per dollar will send to the US president Donald Trump the message that “Canada is not on sale.”
Freeland has caused the centerpiece of his leadership campaign to be retired against Trump so far. She has tried to remember the liberal voters who played a crucial role in the NAFTA renegocia the last time Trump was in office.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mélanie Joly, said on Monday that Canada is still trying to make Trump stop the featured tariffs on Canadian goods through diplomacy.
But, if the tariffs continue, Canada is ready to respond with their own measures, he said.
“We will be ready for the first day,” he said.
When asked about Freeland’s call to launch a list of products that could be beaten with tariffs before Trump attacks, Joly said: “We believe that diplomacy can work and that is why we are having conversations and we will not negotiate in front of the public”.
Joly said there is still the possibility that Canada’s arguments against tariffs influence Trump to eliminate his threats.
She said that Canada is the largest customer for US goods and services and, when it excludes oil exports, which are driven by US demand, Americans actually have a commercial surplus with Canada.
“We hope the facts prevail,” he said.
As part of the impulse of diplomacy, Joly said that Canada is talking to allies, including the EU, the United Kingdom and Mexico, about Trump’s threatened commercial action and how they could respond collectively.
Joly will also meet with the United States Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, Wednesday.
Trump has repeatedly justified tariffs in Canada by saying that the United States is “subsidizing” Canada because it has a commercial deficit.
It has framed that deficit, which is largely driven by Alberta’s US oil demand that quotes at much lower prices than the world average, since a sign of Canada is “cheating” to the United States
Trump has floated in tremendously inaccurate figures on how large that deficit is, even claiming last Friday was “$ 200 billion.”
The United States government data suggests that the trade deficit trade with Canada was $ 55 billion in the United States to November 2024.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mélanie Joly, says that the objective of the government is to avoid the threatened tariffs of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, without publicly saying what the plan is imposed.
The world took its first glance to how Trump plans to deploy tariffs to get what he wants from other countries during the weekend.
The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, initially refused to accept deportees sent from the United States in US military aircraft only to change their minds when Trump continued with 25 percent tariffs on Colombian goods.
Trump pointed out Sunday night that he would lift the tariffs after Petro agreed to recover Colombians who illegally entered the United States and were expelled.
The Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, avoided an economic disaster after his government and the United States reached an agreement on deportation flights. The president of the United States, Donald Trump, had threatened with tariffs and sanctions to punish Colombia for refusing to accept military flights that transport deportees.
Trump is using commercial threats to “disturb Canadians,” Freeland said, and Canada should do the same.
Developing a list of goods that can face retaliation tariffs could lead to the political pressure of the business community on Trump to go back, he said.
Freeland said that addressing US goods worth $ 200 billion for possible tariffs will make the United States exporters “worry if their businesses will be the ones we reach.”
She raised tariffs on products from Trump’s own state and Swing states that were competitive in recent elections.
Freeland said that Florida orange growers, Wisconsin dairy producers and Michigan dishwasher manufacturers should be potential objectives for Canadian retaliation rates.
Canada followed a similar play book when Trump hit the steel and Canadian aluminum with tariffs in his first mandate.
If Trump continues with tariffs, the former finance minister also said that he wants the federal government to “immediately stop the purchase of any product of any American company,” with some national security exceptions.
“If tariffs are imposed, US companies, including the branches of international companies based in the United States, will be excluded from all projects financed by the federal government,” Freeland said.
Carney says that the dollar response per dollar ‘a dice’
The former governor of the Bank of Canada, Mark Carney, Freeland’s main leadership rival, also said he supports the slapped punitive tariffs in the United States if Trump continues with his promised collection of 25 percent over Canadian goods.
“Dollar retaliation rates per dollar by Canada should be a fact and must be directed when their impacts in the United States will feel more difficult. Every dollar collected by Canadian tariffs should be used to help support Canadian workers through From this fight, “Carney said in a media statement.
Mark Carney has received public support from 52 liberal parliamentarians, compared to 26 for Chrystia Freeland, something she says is a sign that it is a “liberal source.”
Carney is relying on her experience by helping to administer Canadian and British economies to present themselves as the possible liberal leader with the best plan for the economy.
Carney said the federal government “must now act to boost investment in Canada.”
“This will require dramatic changes in our economic policies, which I am proposing,” he said.
