As United States President Donald Trump’s sweeping 25-percent tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada were about to kick in on Tuesday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau hit back.
Even before the tariffs actually came into effect, Trudeau put out a statement, calling the tariffs “unjustified” and imposing immediate retaliatory tariffs. Then, a few hours later, on Tuesday morning, he addressed a news conference where he referred to Trump as “Donald”, called the tariffs a “very dumb thing to do”, and accused the US president of trying to cripple the Canadian economy to annex the country.
