Canada’s foreign minister says she gave Europe a ‘wake-up call’ on threat Trump poses to Canada [Video]

Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly concluded her recent tour of Europe saying she delivered a “wake-up call” to Canada’s allies across the Atlantic about the economic and political threat the Trump administration is posing to Canada. 

“Based on my conversations with many European colleagues, many of them are not necessarily completely aware of what is going on, first in the U.S. and second in Canada,” she said during a call back from Brussels Tuesday. 

Joly said that Europeans have not spoken out loudly against U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to annex Canada or saddle our economy with tariffs because “Europe has its own challenges” in dealing with Washington. 

“It was necessary for me to be in Europe to tell them exactly what’s going on, to make sure that we would co-ordinate on any form of response to tariffs, and that we would be together defending our national security and sovereignty,” …