*PM says Trump is trying to make it easier to annex Canada — but it won’t work *

An unbowed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday that Canada will hit back hard at the U.S. after President Donald Trump launched a North American trade war by slapping devastating 25 per cent tariffs on virtually all Canadian goods.

Speaking to reporters at a news conference on Parliament Hill, Trudeau said Trump is trying to prompt “a total collapse of the Canadian economy” because he thinks that will “make it easier to annex us.”

But Trudeau said that will never happen because “when it comes to defending our great nation, there is no price we all aren’t willing to pay.”

Trudeau said Canada will not back down from a fight in the face of “completely bogus and completely unjustified” trade action that has the potential to ruin bilateral relations and prompt job losses, economic devastation and higher inflation on both sides of the border.

  • .Donuts@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    19 hours ago

    Idk why you are getting downvoted, the speech is right in the article. People are lazy and expect shit to be handed to them even when the answer is one click away (the article).

    • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      13 hours ago

      Part of it is that I made the mistake of implying anyone should EVER read an article rather than just spamming memes and non sequitors based off keywords in the topic title. Why discuss current events when you can instead spam comments that you know will get you some precious gamefaqs karma?

      But mostly it is highlighting how completely internet illiterate people are at this point. EVERYONE hates AI and The Everything Apps and what reddit/twitter/instagram (but never tiktok. tiktok is love. tiktok is life) shows them and so forth. But the moment you suggest that someone can control what they see or seek out information on their own? The (almost) decades of training and conditioning kicks in and people are just unreasonable for implying anything other than what the internet and the totally humans we are talking to shows us.

      Which is especially frustrating when we are already seeing ai/deepfake driven discourse is accomplishing. It really is fucking terrifying that the response was that I am “full of shit” for implying an article about a topic might have an embed of the speech in question but also that there would be blind trust if I just linked to a random youtube.

      I probably should have been nicer and not done the LMGTFY. But it was worth it just to watch someone’s mind be blown because they had apparently never seen an LMGTFY shitpost before. And also… my general stance is that people who are willfully and aggressively ignorant deserve no respect. More flies with honey but… the flies are already morbidly obese diabetics so maybe a bit less honey is called for.

      • .Donuts@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        13 hours ago

        rather than just spamming memes and non sequitors based off keywords in the topic title

        Yeah I thought that was just reddit, but we do it over here too. Stupid thing is, the “karma” or whatever it’s called on Lemmy isn’t even displayed, so it doesn’t do shit anyway.

        I probably should have been nicer and not done the LMGTFY

        I mean, maybe? I think if all the downvoters understood that the content in question was right there in the article, they would have been on your side. Instead, they just pile on and call you a meanie. Meh.