*PM says Trump is trying to make it easier to annex Canada — but it won’t work *

An unbowed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday that Canada will hit back hard at the U.S. after President Donald Trump launched a North American trade war by slapping devastating 25 per cent tariffs on virtually all Canadian goods.

Speaking to reporters at a news conference on Parliament Hill, Trudeau said Trump is trying to prompt “a total collapse of the Canadian economy” because he thinks that will “make it easier to annex us.”

But Trudeau said that will never happen because “when it comes to defending our great nation, there is no price we all aren’t willing to pay.”

Trudeau said Canada will not back down from a fight in the face of “completely bogus and completely unjustified” trade action that has the potential to ruin bilateral relations and prompt job losses, economic devastation and higher inflation on both sides of the border.

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    6 hours ago

    Well the guy is still standing. So you haven’t done everything. French people go and burn down the streets. You guy have written a letter and said oh that’s all we can do.

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      5 hours ago

      Another brave keyboard warrior advocating a disabled guy assassinate one of the most heavily guarded politicians in the world. I’m assuming you’re able bodied, what’s your excuse for not doing it?

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          4 hours ago

          They couldn’t without asking questions. That’s on me, I lost my cool a bit. I’m getting tired of people like them who are happy to ask others to throw their lives away, people they neither know nor care anything about, but won’t do the same themselves.

          They’re just looking for people to blame for issues they feel they can’t control, and my mistake is interacting with them at all.