Justin Trudeau says Trump’s 25% tariffs on Canadian goods a ‘very dumb thing to do’ [Video]

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PRIME MINISTER JUSTIN Trudeau said that US President Donald Trump imposed tariffs on Canada to destroy the country’s economy to make it easier for the United States to annex its northern neighbour.

The extraordinary warning about Trump’s threat to Canadian sovereignty came as the US president delivered on his vow to impose 25% tariffs on all Canadian goods, something Trudeau described as a “very dumb thing to do”.

Canada immediately retaliated, triggering a trade war between previously close allies and threatening future commerce across a border that regularly sees billions of dollars in daily trade.

Trump has said the tariffs are necessary to force Canadian action against what he describes as the flow of undocumented migrants and the drug fentanyl across the border.

Trudeau has maintained that Canada is not a significant contributor to either problem in the United States, and today called Trump’s fentanyl justification “completely false.”

‘Even though …