“President Donald Trump’s objective is to destroy Canada’s economy so he can annex the country, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said during a fiery news conference about the start of a trade war between the countries,” Bloomberg reports.
“Trump put the tariffs in place on Tuesday, saying Canada and Mexico have not done enough to crack down on drug trafficking.
But in Canada’s case, that’s just a pretext for tariffs the US president planned to impose anyway, Trudeau said.”Trump shot back to “Governor Trudeau” that he’d go tit for tat on Canadian tariffs.