Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau considers resigning over tariff threat: report

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau considers resigning over tariff threat: report
FILE PHOTO: Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during news conference with Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, May 31, 2018. REUTERS/Chris Wattie/File Photo

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is reportedly considering submitting his resignation after a public battle over the economy amid U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's tariff threats.

Sources told CTV News that Trudeau told his cabinet that he was considering prorogation or resignation and potentially planning to address Parliament this afternoon.

Canada's Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland quit Monday morning in a surprise move after disagreeing with Trudeau over the threats. In a post on X, she said that she was offered a different position, but upon reflection just assumed she'd leave.

"Our country today faces a grave challenge. The incoming administration in the United States is pursuing a policy of aggressive economic nationalism, including a threat of 25 percent tariffs. We need to take that threat extremely seriously," Freeland wrote in her resignation letter.

"That means keeping our fiscal powder dry today, so we have the reserves we may need for a coming tariff war," she continued. "That means eschewing costly political gimmicks, which we can ill afford and which make Canadians doubt that we recognize the gravity of the moment. That means pushing back against 'America First' economic nationalism."

CTV's official pollster Nik Nanos called the ordeal a disaster for Trudeau.

"Justin Trudeau just learned what it's like to be thrown under the political bus," said Nanos in an interview. "I can't envision what Justin Trudeau can do right now to fix this."

By Monday afternoon, Trudeau's party was in disarray, with leaders debating whether or not they had confidence in his leadership. Meanwhile, conservative leaders called the country "out of control."

Last week, Trump mocked Trudeau on TruthSocial in a late-night post where he continued his mockery at Canada. Trump told Trudeau that Canada should simply decide to become the 51st state of the United States.

"It was a pleasure to have dinner the other night with Governor Justin Trudeau of the Great State of Canada," Trump posted at 12:06 a.m., degrading the prime minister's office and his nation's autonomy.

The prime minister warned that a 25 percent across-the-board tariff would devastate the Canadian economy and create "real hardship for Americans."

"Americans import 65% of their crude oil from Canada, significant amounts of electricity," Trudeau said. "Just about all the natural gas exported from Canada goes to the United States. They rely on us for steel and aluminum. They rely on us for a range of agricultural imports. All of those things would get more expensive.”

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Fox News host Maria Bartiromo insisted that God urged her to get closer to Charlie Kirk in the days before he died.

In a Sunday interview with Bartiromo, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) argued that "the Gospel of Jesus Christ will be spread today to a bigger audience than just about any event in our lifetime" because of Kirk's memorial in Arizona.

"You know, I really do think — I said this last weekend — God wanted me to know Charlie better in the last few months," Bartiromo remarked. "I've been speaking to Charlie more. I went on his show. He came on my show."

"I think his way of communicating and just ensuring that it doesn't get hostile, and you just having a talk and a conversation about the issues and a debate, God wanted me to know more about how Charlie did it," she asserted.

For his part, Cruz claimed that Democrats were full of "anger and hate."

"Today's Democrat Party defines itself by anger and hatred of Donald Trump," he told the Fox News host. "After Charlie was murdered, the number of leftists, whether Democrat politicians or left-wing activists or teachers or professors who celebrated It was grotesque, the celebrations and the glorifications. And I will tell you, this is a problem that is overwhelmingly on the left."

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Comedian Bill Maher is taking heat from MAGA after comments he made on his show.

On his latest broadcast, Maher discussed the Minnesota church shooter, who was known as Robin Westman but was born as Robert Westman.

"That's not why we got what we got. Trans is not the cause of this," Maher said, suggesting that becoming transgender have been one of many attempts to "fix her chronic unhappiness." He added, "The joke's on you" to anyone who seeks to interpret the shooter's manifesto at this stage.

The conservative outlet The Post Millennial wrote, "While respecting the pronouns of the Minnesota killer of Catholic schoolchildren, Bill Maher says 'the joke's on you' if you try to decipher a political motive."

MAGA influencer Jack Posobiec said, "BREAKING: Bill Maher attacks conservatives for saying the shooter being trans had anything to do with the Catholic children murders in Minneapolis."

This led Trump ally Roger Stone to chime in, "Bill Maher is a scrawny piece of human garbage who is not even faintly amusing without a platoon of comedy writers. A pompous a------."

Stone then added, "When I wipe my a-- what's left on the toilet paper has more talent than he does."

Self-identified MAGA mother Ceara asked, "Who’s going to have the pleasure of fact checking him? We can’t allow people that ignore facts to make such statements about tragic deaths. Did he do his own research before talking about this?"

John Connell, another self-identified MAGA user, said Sunday, "Ever capitulating to the left. What a joke."

Local GOP chairman Bo French said, "I am so tired of my normiecon friends talking about how great Bill Maher has been lately. 'He is so reasonable now.' LOL. No, he is a leftist at heart and can't even admit Charlie's shooter is a leftist too," he wrote Sunday. "Despicable."

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) said she opposed a Republican House resolution honoring Charlie Kirk because he "targeted people of color."

During a Sunday interview on CNN, host Dana Bash asked Crockett why she was one of 58 House Democrats who voted against the resolution.

"For the most part, the only people that voted no were people of color," the Democratic lawmaker explained. "Because the rhetoric that Charlie Kirk continuously put out there was rhetoric that specifically targeted people of color."

"And so it is unfortunate that even our colleagues could not see anything how harmful his rhetoric was specifically to us," she noted.

Crockett recalled that Kirk had recently spoken negatively about her on his podcast.

"So if there was any way that I was gonna honor somebody who decided that they were just gonna negatively talk about me and proclaim that I was somehow involved in the great white replacement," she observed. "Yeah, I'm not honoring that kind of stuff, especially as a civil rights attorney and understanding how I got to Congress knowing that there were people that died, people that were willing to die that work to make sure that voices like mine could exist in this place."

"So to me, just like we wanted to make sure that those Confederate relics were taken down, the idea of a new age relic being propped up was something that I just could not subscribe to," she added. "And it is unfortunate that more of my colleagues, even on my side of the aisle, could not see the amount of harm that this man was attempting to inflict upon our communities."

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