{"id":2381494,"date":"2024-12-18T14:37:01","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T19:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/even-before-taking-office-trump-may-have-brought-down-the-canadian-government-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-12-18T14:38:28","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T19:38:28","slug":"even-before-taking-office-trump-may-have-brought-down-the-canadian-government-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/even-before-taking-office-trump-may-have-brought-down-the-canadian-government-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Even before taking office, Trump may have brought down the Canadian government &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Feven-before-taking-office-trump-may-have-brought-down-the-canadian-government-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2381494&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>the article discusses the potential impact of Donald Trump&#8217;s presidency on Canada, particularly in light of his threat to impose a 25% tariff on\u200c Canadian \u200bgoods. \u2064This \u2063threat has\u2064 led to \u2064meaningful political turmoil \u200bin Canada, putting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau&#8217;s government at risk following the resignation\u200c of his finance minister. The\u200c author highlights that Trump\u2019s stance may be seen as either an assertion of \u200bpower or a creation of \u2063chaos, suggesting that such tariffs would have \u2063adverse effects on the U.S. economy, disproportionately affecting American consumers. The justification for the tariffs,related to the fentanyl crisis,is critiqued as unusual,as it implies that other countries should solve\u200b U.S. domestic issues. The article also notes the personal animosity\u200c Trump holds towards Trudeau,stemming from previous criticisms,and suggests that this personal dynamic complicates U.S.-Canada relations. the piece\u2064 emphasizes the unpredictable nature\u200d of Trump&#8217;s approach to foreign policy and its possible consequences on international relationships.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Even before taking office, Trump may have brought down the Canadian government<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1900978\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Even before his inauguration, President-elect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Donald Trump<\/a> is either, depending on your perspective, projecting power or spreading chaos beyond America&rsquo;s borders.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>As I write, the prime minister of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/canada\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Canada<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/justin-trudeau\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Justin Trudeau<\/a>, is hanging on by a thread following the resignation of his finance minister, Chrystia Freeland.<\/p>\n<p>The problem? Trump&rsquo;s threat of a 25% <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/tariffs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">tariff<\/a> on Canadian goods. Never mind that such a policy may be struck down by the courts as incompatible with the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement rules that Trump himself boasts of having established.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">From left: Mary Ng, Canada&rsquo;s trade and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/india-seeking-to-expand-wheat-exports-to-fill-void-left-by-ukraine-war\/\" title=\"India Seeking to Expand Wheat Exports to Fill Void Left by Ukraine War\">economic development minister<\/a>, Chrystia Freeland, Canada&rsquo;s deputy prime minister and finance minister, and Francois-Philippe Champagne, Canada&rsquo;s innovation, science and industry minister, at a Cabinet retreat in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, on Aug. 26, 2024. (Dean Casavechia \/ Bloomberg via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Never mind, either, that tariffs will inflict more pain on the U.S. than on Canada. Yes, there will be a cost to Canadian exporters, but it will be outweighed by the cost to American consumers who, as prices rise, will have less to spend on everything else, so hurting the entire American <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/economy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">economy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And never mind the bizarre justification for the levy, namely the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/fentanyl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">fentanyl<\/a> crisis, which, by the way, seems at last to have peaked. This is, I think, the first time that tariffs have been expressly proposed as a way of trying to make other countries responsible for solving a domestic U.S. problem.<\/p>\n<p>None of those things matters either to Trump himself or to his voters. All they see is that Trump may have toppled the leader of a G7 nation with a single post on Truth Social. Trump&rsquo;s readiness to determine his international policy around which foreign leaders kiss up to him personally, an attitude that previous generations would have seen as un-American, is now saluted as a sign of strength.<\/p>\n<p>With Canada&rsquo;s prettyboy PM, it was always personal. Trump resented Trudeau&rsquo;s earlier criticism of him when he took office in 2017, and relations with Canada never properly recovered. The incoming president has plainly not forgotten his grudge. Hence the inclusion of Canada among the three countries that he has singled out for trade sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>Although threatening tariffs is always a bad idea, I can just about understand the logic of saying that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/mexico\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Mexico<\/a> can avoid them by doing more to control its side of the border. I can even see, though it is more of a stretch, how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/china\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">China<\/a> could crack down harder on drug traffickers. But Canada? What is the Big Dominion supposed to do to?<\/p>\n<p>Canada&rsquo;s provincial governments held an emergency summit in Toronto on Monday to discuss how to respond while the federal government flailed around. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s chaos right now up in Ottawa,&rdquo; said Doug Ford, the man-of-the-people Premier of Ontario.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Justin Trudeau, Canada&rsquo;s prime minister, speaks at the National Caucus holiday party in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, on Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024. (Kamara Morozuk \/ Bloomberg via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Trudeau, determined to avoid his mistake of 2016, flew to Mar-a-Lago to make peace, exactly the kind of thing that Trumpies like to see: a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">client foreign leader coming<\/a> to do homage at court. But his submissiveness did not play well at home. Hence the current crisis.<\/p>\n<p>I don&rsquo;t want to overstate things. Trudeau was already unpopular. Trump&rsquo;s intervention simply brought to a head the discontent of his Liberal MPs, who can see him leading them to electoral disaster.<\/p>\n<p>What we are watching is a textbook example of how Trump likes to do <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/section\/news\/business\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">business<\/a>. Issue a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-teases-biden-for-sending-officials-to-taiwan-during-mike-pompeo-visit\/\" title=\"China Teases Biden for Sending Officials to Taiwan During Mike Pompeo Visit\">blood-curdling threat<\/a>, stand back, and let the cards fall where they may.<\/p>\n<p>In a similar vein, the incoming president has threatened Hamas with &ldquo;ALL HELL TO PAY.&rdquo; What is that supposed to mean? &ldquo;Well,&rdquo; he elaborated, &ldquo;they&rsquo;re going to have to determine what that means, but it means it won&rsquo;t be pleasant. It&rsquo;s not going to be pleasant.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Is this an empty threat, recalling King Lear: &ldquo;I shall do such things &mdash; what they are yet I know not &mdash; but they shall be the terrors of the Earth&rdquo;? Or does he have something specific in mind? Will Hamas wait to find out? Will the Canadians? Will the Mexicans, the Ukrainians, the Russians, or the Chinese?<\/p>\n<p>As Rich Lowry puts it, the closest thing to a Trump Doctrine is: &ldquo;Find out if I&rsquo;m serious or not at your own risk.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, you might see this as a welcome reassertion of American muscularity, a throwback to the swashbuckling style of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/teddy-roosevelt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Teddy Roosevelt<\/a>. Or you might see it as an alarming retreat into personal government, where the national interest is subordinated to the whims of one boss.<\/p>\n<p>Most voters seem to like it. Unusually, Trump&rsquo;s approval ratings have climbed between the election and the inauguration. In a tribal species, there will always be a market for assertive alpha males, for the kind of strongman government that has been perennially popular in less advanced nations. Either way, the ideal on which the U.S. was founded, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/john-adams\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">John Adams<\/a>&rsquo;s vision of &ldquo;a government of laws not of men,&rdquo; seems further away than ever.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1900978\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1900978\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump&#8217;s actions may have destabilized the Canadian government even before he took office<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3097,"featured_media":2381495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/GettyImages-2189957677.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[47058,32402,5894,3634,32076],"class_list":["post-2381494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-canadian-government","tag-international-relations","tag-politics","tag-trump","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/GettyImages-2189957677.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3097"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2381494"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2381498,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381494\/revisions\/2381498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2381495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2381494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2381494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2381494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}