The new U. S. president, Donald Trump, has been courting controversy in Canada since his election victory, with threats to impose meaningful price lists on Canadian goods and the Canadian mind in the country that conforms to the “51st state. “
While Trump’s comments have drawn anger and concern for Canadians, the reaction of Americans living or painting in Canada has combined, and has been widely influenced in how they voted in the presidential election.
Jacob Wesoky, the executive vice chair of Democrats Abroad Canada who is studying political science at McGill University in Montreal, said he is “extremely” disappointed by the president-elect’s approach to his country’s “closest” ally.
“As an American who lives in Canada, he is not happy to see,” said Wesak, who voted for Trump’s rival, Kamala Harris.
But Georganne Burke-American Burke, a burning defender of Trump, said that even if the new president can be “a small troll”, she not her movements to be destructive for Canada. “It doesn’t ask for anything unreasonable,” he said.
Trump’s first chance in Canada came here in November, when he said he would impose a 25% tariff on all Canadian and Mexican imports as soon as he returned to the White House on January 20, unless either country moved along its borders with the U. S.
After outgoing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with Trump in Florida to discuss the price threat, the president-elect began providing the concept of Canada becoming the next American state, trolling Trudeau calling him “governor” of “Great State of Canada” in social media posts.
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The prime minister’s announcement on Monday that he would resign after the Liberal party chose a new leader than Trump, who said on his social platform in fact that “a lot of other people in Canada like to be the 51st state. “
What started out as an apparent joke took another turn Tuesday when Trump threatened to use “economic force” to make Canada the next U.S. state and reiterated his tariff promise at a news conference in Florida. Trudeau responded by saying there “isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell” that Canada would become part of the United States.
Canada is home to more than one million Americans, adding visitors on long-term visas and dual citizens, according to estimates through the Association of Americans Residing Abroad. Many Republicans voted for Trump, and who said in the days leading up to Trump’s latest that Canadians deserve not to worry about his return to the White House.
Burke said Trump “is anti-channel”, but has an intelligent explanation why be “very worried” about the risk of what she called “terrorism” along the border and the failure of Canada to fulfill the point reference for the cost of the NATO army.
“He is saying, you know what, time has passed, the United States will no longer be the ATM for anyone, Canada, any other person,” said Ontario resident.
“There is some troll, whether other people need it or not, other people can say, Oh, it is not presidential or anything, but it is as it is,” he said.
The federal government announced last month that it would invest $ 1. 3 billion for border security. Burke said the effects of this commitment can inspire Trump to resist costs and wait to negotiate main points with the next Canadian government after Trudeau’s departure.
Renna Bassal, a Trump advocate and an American who moved to Canada about five decades, said last week that Trump’s comments on the Canada Annex had been a joke meant to lose respect and mock Trudeau, Canada as a nation.
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The Montreal resident said she was not sure Trump would behave on his price threats, and believes the great technique he followed is a “bargaining chip” ahead of the expected publicity negotiations between the two countries.
She is positive about US-canal relations.
“Sometimes, you know, he says things that perhaps he shouldn’t say, and I’m hoping that this will be one of those instances where he’s not going to follow through on [tariffs],” she said. “It would be extremely unfortunate, and I certainly hope that this doesn’t happen.”
Wesaky, the student of Political Science interested in the Democrats abroad, said that Trump’s positions would only increase the position of living in the United States, but they would also damage consumers and companies in the United States so much that they would damage the economy Canadian.
“So, this rhetoric that opposes this dating that is based on trust and respect.
Wesoky said he was not sure that Trump’s considerations about Canadian border security are legitimate, but even if they were, the consultation will be discussed through negotiations and collaboration.
Before Trump degenerates his annexation rhetoric on Tuesday, Ottawa had largely followed a measured technique for the fanfare of the elected president.
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And that might be the best strategy, according to Mark R. Brawley, an American Canadian professor of international relations at McGill University. Instead, Brawley suggested Ottawa could target specific U.S. congressional districts with reciprocal tariffs to trigger opposition to Trump’s plans from senators and representatives in those areas.
Brawley, who a Canadian citizen last year after living in the country for approximately 35 years, said Trump sees the other people with whom he negotiates as adversaries, not partners and those scandalous comments about them give him an advantage.
“He thinks he’s throwing them off balance and that gives him some kind of an edge,” he said.
Trump has a habit of exaggerating problems so that he can take credit once they are resolved, Brawley said, and his stance on security at the U.S.-Canada border could be one example of that.
“The concept that Canada would be a single state in the United States or that the United States needs Canada to be a state is a bit of an absurdity,” he said. “It’s just his taste, so I take it too seriously. “
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