President Donald Trump has vowed to move ahead with the new tariffs on Canada and Mexico, even after both Justin Trudeau and Claudia Sheinbaum promised to retaliate.
Trump saying that Canada has been abusing the U.S. for years, and Mexico has done nothing to stop the illegal migrants and drugs from pouring into our country.
“Well, it could happen if they do anything we will. Canada has been very abusive of the United States for many years. They don’t allow our banks, and you know that Canada does not allow banks to go in. If you think about it, that’s pretty amazing. If we have a US bank, they don’t allow them to go in. Canada has been very tough on oil, on energy. They don’t allow our farm products in essentially. They don’t allow a lot of things in, and we allow everything to come in. It’s been a one way street. We subsidize Canada by the tune of about $200 billion a year, and for what? What do we get out of it? We don’t get anything out of it. I love the people of Canada. I disagree with the leadership of Canada and something’s going to happen there, but if they want to play the game, I don’t mind. We can play the game all they want. Mexico, we’ve had very good talks with them, and this is retaliatory. This is retaliatory to a certain extent. Millions of people flowed into our country through Mexico and Canada, and we’re not going to allow that. And by the way, we have among the lowest numbers we’ve ever had of people crossing our border, the lowest number since my administration.”