From the Daily Caller News Foundation

By Ireland Owens

Some Canadian premiers are calling on the government to respond strongly to tariff threats from President-elect Donald Trump, Canada’s Finance Minister said Wednesday, according to Reuters.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with premiers as well as other government ministers Wednesday to discuss Trump’s vow to impose tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico when he returns to the Oval Office, according to Reuters. Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Wednesday that Canada could stall energy exports to the U.S. in response, Reuters reported.

Under the previous Trump administration, Canada responded to U.S. tariffs by placing tariffs on various goods including bourbon, cherries and Harley Davidson motorcycles, Reuters reported.

“A number of premiers offered strong support for a robust Canadian response that included some of the premiers proactively naming critical minerals and metals that their provinces produce, and which are exported to the United States,” Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland told reporters on Wednesday, according to Reuters.

The president-elect has embraced tariffs, previously calling them the most “beautiful” word and proposing sweeping tariffs across various industries. Trump threatened in November to impose 100% tariffs on any BRICS nation that abandons the U.S. dollar and vowed in September to impose 200% tariffs on John Deere products if the company relocates its manufacturing operations to Mexico.

Trudeau met with the president-elect in Mar-a-Largo in November after Trump threatened to impose a 25% tariff on all imports from Mexico and Canada unless both countries do more to control their border with the U.S. to prevent the flow of illegal drugs and illegal immigrants into the states. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum also hinted at retaliation if Trump imposes tariffs on her country.

There has been a surge of illegal migrant crossings at the northern border under the Biden-Harris administration. There were 18,944 encounters at the northern border in August alone, according to data from the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP). There have been 198,929 total encounters at the northern border in the 2024 fiscal year, compared to 189,402 total encounters at the northern border in fiscal year 2023, the CBP data shows.

Bank of Canada Gov. Tiff Macklem said Wednesday that Trump’s proposed 25% tariff on imports could cause disruption to Canada’s economy, according to The Wall Street Journal. Over 20% of Canada’s gross domestic product is linked to trade with the U.S., the WSJ reported. U.S. goods and services trade with Canada amounted to an estimated $908.9 billion in 2022, according to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.

“It’s going to be difficult for businesses to take decisions against that background,” Macklem said. “There is a risk that [business] investment is weaker.”

From LifeSiteNews

By Anthony Murdoch

Elon Musk made the comments after Trudeau claimed Americans have gone backwards on ‘women’s progress’ because Donald Trump, not Kamala Harris, was elected president.

Tesla billionaire Elon Musk doled out some of his harshest words yet against Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, blasting the world leader as a “tool” who will not be in “power much longer.” 

Musk made the comments after Trudeau claimed Americans have gone backwards with respect to “women’s progress” because they elected Donald Trump, not Kamala Harris, as president. 

“He’s such an insufferable tool,” wrote Musk on X in reply to a post from Dr. Gad Saad, who had posted a video of Trudeau’s comments. 

“Won’t be in power for much longer.” 

Saad, who is a friend of Dr. Jordan Peterson and who also has a distaste for Trudeau, wrote on X Wednesday about the PM’s comments regarding the U.S. election, “There are no words, no sentiments, no non-verbal cues, no telepathic communications that can capture the extent to which this individual is grotesque.” 

The now-viral video of Trudeau blasting American voters for choosing Donald Trump over Kamala Harris happened at an Equal Voice Foundation gala in the nation’s capital of Ottawa, which was held on Tuesday. 

“We were supposed to be on a steady, if difficult sometimes, march towards progress,” Trudeau said to the gala attendees. 

“And yet, just a few weeks ago, the United States voted for a second time to not elect its first woman president. Everywhere, women’s rights and women’s progress is under attack. Overtly, and subtly.” 

Musk was recently tasked by Trump to lead the forthcoming Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) with the help of businessman and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy. 

Musk has a history of going after Trudeau. As reported by LifeSiteNews, last month he predicted that Trudeau would be “gone” in the 2025 election. 

As reported by LifeSiteNews Musk also remarked that it is “insane” that the Trudeau government’s proposed “Online Harms” bill would target internet speech retroactively if it becomes law. 

As for Trump, he recently took a shot at Trudeau after the PM flew to Mar-a-Lago for an impromptu visit, joking that he was looking forward to seeing the “Governor again soon so that we may continue our in depth talks on Tariffs and Trade, the results of which will be truly spectacular for all!”