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Like a chihuahua barking at a pit bull. Kind of funny to watch. The US is 40% of Canada’s GDP. They are 2.7% of ours. Guess who this hurts more.

I’m American, and as hurtful it is to say that, because I know it’s gonna affect me. I stand with Canada. I would do the same. This is a disgraceful administration we are now.

This is beyond stupid. This will solve absolutely nothing except hurting everyone in North America.

Non tarfi measures are better. Tariffs are going to hurt you country and RAISE prices. You need to BOYCOTT Everything israel.

Trump wants Trudeau gone, impo, and while I agree that he needs to be gone asap, this is NOT the way to go about it. Carney will come in and he’s even more of an extremist than Trudeau. This is only going to hurt the citizens of BOTH countries. Pierre is the only hope and he can’t get in fast enough as far as I’m concerned.

Good. Everyone must STAND UP to the bully Trump. yes, it will hurt everyone, but we have no choice.

the low-income families in both countries will be hurt the most.

Great speech Mr Trudeau and shame on our Felon Con Trump for those tarrifs that are only going to hurt our country and the people. The derranged Trump is looking out only for himself and his Billionaire cronies who donate to his campaigns ! The Donald Con Trump thinks he is still in the Apprentice. Poor fool?

Your country couldn't hurt us if you wanted to. We don't need you we can buy your products from someone else or we can produce our own your country sir for the most part is it frozen sheet of ice who needs your Southern partner that can grow things in the warmer weather you moron

Prime Minister, I wish you weren’t resigning. I would be proud if you were my president, not the one who has acted so viciously without thinking of the consequences which hurts Americans as well. The only person who will benefit from this will be Vladimir Putin.

Lol....I hope yall got some money put away....Make America Broke Again ?...this doesn't hurt the wealthy....open your eyes people

The reason for trumps behavior is an all personal EGO. He doesn't want to look bad in front of others, even if it means hurting the country and their people. Its a childish game on a large scale schoolyard. He doesn't care who gets hurt. As long as he wins. He's blinded by his behavior. Maybe thats why he's president the puppeteer knew what he was doing. Canada ??

Trump needs no ally or partner. He humiliates ally and partner and loves dictators and sides with Russia and North Korea. Please make America hurt as Trump hurts his allies and partners

Tariffs just end up hurting the final consumer, Trump needs to implement measures that promote American growth and American Industries but not hurting the final consumer. Also Russia is the aggressor and needs to pay for all the destruction it has caused so far and economic impact !!

Thank You PM Trudeau, but the point IS to hurt the people, because a broken people are easier to control while you stage a bloodless coup, with the beneficiaries being Russia and the billionaire oligarchs. Create confusion, chaos and fear and you control the people. Threaten their very way of life and create instability and you control the people. Rage and rant and bully them into submission and you subdue them into accepting a new status quo.This doesn't make sense because that's not the point. There is a silent coup enacted by a hostile foreign entity underway!

If tariffs only hurt american consumers why does he care?\n\nI also thought he stepped down.

I just thought about something that many of us forget. There are thousands of Americans that go to Canada for cheaper medicine because they can’t afford it here. They will likely be hurt by all this BS.

Canadian is already really hurting. They say they are there for their citizensyet offer euthanasia for being depressed because they’re in poverty. Justin speaks about dictators yet he is a dictator too.

We (Americans) who are center-left are with you. Anyone who does the math won’t find a sensible answer; there is none. Average Americans will feel the hurt first. They say there is a backlash, here and there… but these clowns continue onward to the destruction of everything we hold dear.

The US under the orange anus is no friend to any country that isn't run by authoritarian dictatorships. \n\nHit us back hard, Canada. We deserve to be hurt for electing that orange monster!!

Canadian government has made Canadians paralyzed for decades with high tax rates, made worst business decisions emptied citizens pockets to fill outsiders and their own. Instead of making Canadians rich you have made us poor. I don't disagree to standup for yourself but our foundation is the weakest. If you want to change something think of Canadians make things easier...STOP making admissions hard for professionals pay more wages where its needed and stop increasing minimum wages without improving the lifestyle of people. A 16 yr old making minimum wage and don't even know what to do with the money improve the quality of life. Make businesses boom by helping them with easier access to grants and business approvals. Help investors to grow and help middle class to become investors, make import export much easier. Better laws to protect investors...help those who are growing the economy not dinging them with more and more taxes. This tariff war is going to hurt us more than anyone else. Us poor Candians will have to pay for this hurt our children and our seniors. And that's exactly what Trump and Elon want. To the next Canadian PM - HELP CANADIANS! LET LIVE AND LET GROW...

I told you he don’t sleep at night look they passed that bill by this morning. He do things when everybody sleep. He never sleeps. He’s always thinking of how to hurt people

Its pretty obvious Trump and his thugs are trying to hurt America, not help America.

This is not the work of American people; this is the action of a spoiled child who wants to show his billionaire friends that he is the bully on the playground. He is what you get when racist, ignorant people vote based on hate and bias. Unfortunately, their ignorance will hurt us all.

We do not care if it hurts us here in Canada as long as it hurts the orange Jesus

Trump and his Buddy Putin are 2 of a kind. They are downright Vicious! \nInhumane Greed! They will hurt all people! They will meet their Maker and will suffer the consequence of their own actions. They are Completely responsible for the suffering caused to Many many innocent people. Including Americans. They have no Soul! Pure Evil!

I’m an American and would never vote for Trump. I hope the tariffs that Canada, Mexico and China crush our economy so his cult will see what a moron he is. This will hurt me as well but it has to be done.

We need to cut off oil and electricity to the US. Good luck to them. I will be happy to tighten my boot straps a little if it hurts Don the Convicted Psychopath.

Preach Trudeau! The American government is desperately trying to hurt American families & lie about who is truly at fault. Many of us know the truth & who is truly at fault but unfortunately less than half of all voters believed his lies & manipulation & voted for this nightmare. ?

Buckle up Canada! Your economy is already hurting.

Just to play devils advocate here, because it seems all the comments are favoring Canada, \nWe just had an administration that ran our country into the ground seemingly on purpose. \nTrump is in the position of playing janitor and cleaning up a mess. Sometimes cleaning up a mess is a dirty job, and it might hurt at first. But however necessary.

If US imposes tariffs on Canada prices go up for people in the US. So if Canada imposes tariffs on US prices go up for people in Canada? How is this a retaliatory? Wouldn't it just be hurting the people in both countries?

Great speech! As an American, I'm on Canada's side in this fight. The American tariffs should not have been implemented. Their purpose is to hurt both countries, to soften us up for Russian dominance.

I'm an American, and I support Canada in doing what they have to do to push back on trump/Republican insanity. I know as a senior on social security that I will be hurt by the push back. I will eat less and drive less, but I don't care -- Canada is doing the right thing.

As an American, I want to say that I have never seen a more toxic administration in my life. Not only are they hurting Americans but they are hurting Americas longstanding allies. This will not end well for us as Americans. This both hurts me and scares me. It’s sad that there are Americans that think this administration is doing a good job. God bless us all!?

As a Brit I fully support Canada. USA, you started all this by electing Trump and Vance. Trump and Vance will hurt both the USA and the rest of the western world, they will help Russia and trumps other friendly dictators. Well spoken PM Trudeau.

Trump has hurt the USA so bad it will take decades to recover

Trump uses drugs and sexually hurts young boys and girls and traffics them for profit

Prime Minister Trudeau was more than polite and kind. As he knows, Trump is not intelligent, and a pathological liar, wannabe dictator, narcissistic fascist and poor businessman to boot. Trump has bullied, threatened and failed to pay thousands of tradesmen and contractors that have worked for him and wishes to hurt them further by extending and increasing tax cuts to individuals and institutions that have not paid their fair share of taxes and social security since the Reagan years. The allegations that Trump has laundered money for Russian oligarchs since his association with Deutsche Bank began are substantial and should be investigated.

Trump needs to go, as well as Vance, and UNELECTED Elon Musk. Wake up MAGA, you’ve hurt yourself, fellow Americans, and the world.

Canada, you did not hurt us Americans. DT did.

Trump wants to hurt everyone!

The only ones that are going to be hurt by this are the people of America get rid of trump

I never thought I’d live long enough to watch the fall of our American democracy. And I don’t say this lightly. When we begin these ill thought out and economically foolish trade wars; when we attempt to hurt our allies and neighbors and distance our self from our Democratic partners in favor of communist Russia, how can you say that our democracy is not in jeopardy. And we now have billionaires who are not responsible to the electorate, dictating policy in order to grow their enormous wealth even more and do so unchallenged with the protection of the government, does that not look like a country that doesn’t have long . And to these Republicans, who are spineless and care more about their job, their position and their pocketbook rather than their duty to their country and the constitution, how dare you. Disgrace.

All the Democratic losers Canada is a tool along with governor Justin .. and it’s gonna hurt Canada a lot more than it’s gonna hurt us ???

This will hurt america way more than it will hurt Canada! Canadians are used to tightening their belts and pulling together and remember that when our trade deals are ratified with other countries and those relationships are built and new trade routes are forged bypassing the u.s. then the u.s. will be a stand alone country wait until Canadas oil and gas and electricity is turned , and let's talk about Canadas potash and just about everything else will be gone let's not forget about tourism because instead of making north America stronger Canada will be stronger and once we start getting fair market value for Canadian energy and our national debt is gone then it'll be bye bye Americans. You won't be the stronger nation on earth very much longer. Is America joining Russia as a new communist agreement.

Why are we so blind to see that the ones we hurt are you and me

Him slapping excessive tariffs on many countries will only hurt Americans. He never thought that these countries will do the same to America.

Maybe we shouldnt spend BILLIONS of dollars for protection and dont get anything back. Is that fair? Trump and MAGA are fed up spending SOO Much money that has little or no benefit to us yes it will hurt for now, but we already spent 4 years in hell whats anouther1-2 years.

as a Ukrainian-born Canadian citizen, Alberta-first conservative, I support this message. TRUMP is off the rails and hurting the entire world including his own people right now.