{"id":24097,"date":"2025-03-15T15:51:04","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T15:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=24097"},"modified":"2025-03-15T15:51:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T15:51:04","slug":"canadas-foreign-minister-issues-chilling-message-to-the-rest-of-the-world-as-trade-war-between-us-intensifies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=24097","title":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s foreign minister issues chilling message to the rest of the world as trade war between US intensifies"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Canadian foreign minister has sent out a strong message after Donald Trump made the move to raise trade tariffs.<\/p>\n

Despite threatening to\u00a0raise the metals tariff<\/a>\u00a0to 50 percent for Canadian imports, the\u00a0American<\/a>\u00a0president has\u00a0backtracked slightly<\/a>\u00a0due to the backlash, instead placing a 25 percent tariff on goods from Canada and Mexico.<\/p>\n

The move has not been well received across the\u00a0world<\/a>, as\u00a0Trump<\/a>\u00a0also put an increased tariff on Chinese goods, as well as an initial tariff of 25 percent on steel and aluminium from every country.<\/p>\n

Trump has also recently threatened to\u00a0put a mega 200 percent tariff<\/a>\u00a0on EU alcohol, in what would be a huge blow.<\/p>\n

But with all these drastic trade changes, leaders of other countries have become disgruntled, with many wanting to maintain a strong relationship with the US.<\/p>\n

UK<\/a>\u00a0trade chief William Bain\u00a0has advised Britain<\/a>\u00a0to ‘keep calm and carry on exporting’ despite the changes, and reiterated the confidence he had in mitigating the impact of these in an interview with LADbible.<\/p>\n

However, Canadian Foreign Minister M\u00e9lanie Joly has adopted a different approach, claiming that ‘nobody is safe’.<\/p>\n

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Melanie Joly hit back at Trump’s claims (JOHANNA GERON \/ POOL \/ AFP) (Photo by JOHANNA GERON\/POOL\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n

She said in a speech in Ottawa: “If the US can do this to us, their closest friend, then nobody is safe,”\u00a0reports<\/a>\u00a0Politico.<\/p>\n

Joly called Trump out for his ‘exaggerated’ reasoning behind the increase in tariffs, explaining: “We have done nothing to justify Trump’s attacks on our country, on our economy and our identity.<\/p>\n

“Canada is your best friend, best neighbour and best ally.”<\/p>\n

She scathingly went on: “The excuse for the first round was exaggerated claims about our border. We addressed all the concerns raised by the US.<\/p>\n

“The latest excuse is national security despite the fact that Canada’s steel and aluminum adds to America’s security.”<\/p>\n

The relationship between the US and Canada is at a low, especially with the president hinting at annexing the country to make it the US’ 51st state.<\/p>\n

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has downplayed these claims though, saying that Trump meant it with ‘economic’ reasoning.<\/p>\n

He even suggested: “We wouldn’t have to worry about the border and fentanyl coming across because now we would be able to manage that.”<\/p>\n

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Trump is aiming to make drastic changes to how the US operates (Andrew Harnik\/Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n

Joly though, remained critical of the president, adding: “Yesterday, he called our border a fictional line and repeated his disrespectful 51st state rhetoric.<\/p>\n

“Well, Canadians have made it very clear that we will not back down, and we will not give in to this coercion.”<\/p>\n

In a trade war that has been branded ‘unjustifiable’ by the Canadian foreign trade minister, she was not having Trump’s comments that the border between the nations was an ‘artificial line’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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