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Thank you, to all our brothers, sisters, friends and allies from around the world. Canada loves and respects all of humanity. Canada supports the rules based societies and international law. We are a loving, compassionate diverse nation that comprises of all nations as citizens from around the world. \n\nYou know us and we know you… we are connected. We look forward to making new friends, strengthening existing ones and we are open to free, fair and peace loving people. \n\nMake no mistake. Our kindness and compassion should not be mistaken for weakness. We are forged from the steel of our earth. We will go over the boards when our friends and families are attacked internally and around the world. \n\nLong Live Canada and Ukraine! Elbows up…

I hope sincerely that Canada turns off electricity to the US. Many US citizens won't even know what is going on but they soon will do.

This is going to end well for the US ?

Go for it Canada. Put the screws to the US

Don't say the United State, say dumb Dump and his team....I'm with Canada, Justin Trudeau & John Ford. It's going to hurt us I hate what that idiot is doing not only to us but to Canada & Mexico. Just a pathetic source of junk taking up space on earth.

Trump and his house of clowns have to go! He is setting us up a great fall, guy.

Trump’s goal is to take us and Mexico in submission but it backfired. Go ???????????? Go! I am a proud Canadian and proud of Team Canada! Bravo Canada! Nous sommes de fières canadiens! Nous sommes prêt à survivre les difficultés pour notre identité et notre souveraineté! ????

Awesome!! GO CANADA!! How you Americans voted for this convicted felon is mind boggling!! This is who you want to represent you on the world stage.You've PISSED us off!! No more American goods, no more American vacations,?

He's going to turn America into a third world country Trump Elon. They are imbeciles and this is disgusting. This is horrible. They're opening us up for war. They're opening us up for a disaster. People are going to be starving. We're going to be standing in line for potatoes and toilet paper like it's Russia

Go Trudeau! At least someone is standing up to him. From a US citizen who will probably be hit with the consequences - but I cheer you on!

Blame all Trump voters. They put us here. When Trump blatantly said what he was going to do! So we stand with Canada and Non Trump supporters ?

We are selling out...taking our money and going home, eh?\nWe are boycotting anything below the 49th for good.?\nWe do not take kindly to narcissistic, felonous, lying, theieving, land-grabbing , classless bullies threatening and insulting us and tearing apart the decades of time and work it took to create NAFDA. ?(Do you know what that is? ?).\nWe are...however, still friends with Mexico!\n??????

Aren't many canadian companies subsidiaries of US companies ? Will Canada just go all Chinese or European for their supplies !

Do Americans know how much this is going to hurt Canadians? Like 1 month of this, this surrent population may never forgive the US after all this. It Crazy, hundreds of thousands of jobs at stake, and for what?

Trump is purposely going to crash the US economy and enrich himself and others like him from it.

I just stopped playing with friends when they turned into dicks. Now as an Adult I want the border shut to anyone with a US passport. I want it shut to anything coming or going to America. Close the border. \nI'm cool with struggling so the Americans can be independent....

Trudeau should have told you REPUBLICAN idiots exactly what Dipstick Trump is doing! TRUMP is doing the TARIFF thing to make up for all the TAXCUTS he is giving the RICH (taxcuts which NO average US taxpayer will receive) and now YOU are going to pay more for everything! Just remember, Canadians will still get the same amount of money from the sale, BUT the price to all of YOU will be 25% higher. You MAGA AMERICANS need to have your 2 BRAINCELLS talk to each other instead of complaining about anyone of color, sexual preferences or ideas that are different to yours

I think Trudeau missed the memo on what reciprocal tariffs mean! By the way we don't need Canadas energy when they Say they're going to so-called turn off the energy to America that means literally nothing five minutes of research will tell you that the United States does not need Canadas energy! Absolute empty threat!\n\nBy the way to anybody in the comments section that doesn't know what they're talking about and just listens to cnn so far these tariffs have secured 1.7 trillion US dollars in just three months brought manufacturing back to the United States honda is now leaving their location in Canada and building in the United States same with American car manufacturers in Mexico. \n\nWe won and I find this so funny you guys are flipping out we have socalled Americans joining Canada's side just because they're anti Trump. absolute clowns!

PRIME MINISTER TRUDEAU - WHAT A REAL LEADER LOOKS LIKE. The big difference between Canada and the US is that the Canadian gov will be there to support it's people during this time and our White House will do NOTHING to help Americans -as a matter of fact they will treat us worse. TRUMP DID THIS - TRUMP HAS TO GO - before we lose everything we have worked for for over 200 years!!!

Call that orange ass out. Tell the US citizens exactly what he is doing. Well done PM Trudeau. Elbows up, we are going over the boards Canada.

Looking at these comments about trump is mind blowing. Canada and all the other countries are not going to pay for our national debt!!! It’s freaking stupid to say you stand with Canada and you didn’t vote for this. . . Canada is barely hanging on too. It’s America that has been carrying all these countries for far too long and what are they giving back???!! You people need to fully understand the reality of the situation before commenting your nonsense. If anything, leave our country!! You people came here and took it from us!! Remember that!

Dont you all realize that what we are doign is equalling the percentage as they do to us , yes everyone has there opinions but the fact that we as a country goes and helps other countries but when we have a president that really cares, and bet none of you do your studys on these issues, see you all go day by day with out a clue on whats going on , its ok for other countries to take advantage of us and hurt us but its ok right its ok for countrys to hurt us as thte same for democratic leftys its ok to hurt us, i say hell no its not ok , for once in are life we need to help the Americans period , grow up people seriously grow up , trump is doing what should have been done a long time ago , biden did to much damage to much

Trump is burning down America!!!\n\nThe WORLD hates us!\n\nTrump must GO for the good of the planet!!

GO CANADA...STAND UP FOR US ALL...APPARENTLY U.S. CONGRESS AND CITIZENS ARE UNABLE TO STAND FOR THEMSELVES....BOYCOTT THE FELON

You may not want it, but it is necessary to wake you up. Get other trade partners, DO NOT DEPEND ON THE US. Canada needs to close its borders to illegals , curb the asylum and refugees. Strengthen your Armed Forces.. Get out of the FIVE EYES. Concentrate on the infrastructure, housing, food safety. And do not refer to US as a friend. Cannot be any worse than it is. If only you did not go down to Mara La Go. Matter of days before you leave Trudeau. Think what havoc you created.

I have never been so embarrassed to be an American. Its heart breaking that we allowed this to happen even with all the warning signs. I have protested, attended town halls, emsiled all my state representatives and every attempt can only have power if the people we elected go to bat for us. They are not doing so. Americans who know this is absolutely unacceptable will scream as loud as we can to stop this dictator but we need to help of the higher ups. Please...for the love of God, get this man out of the seat of power until it is too late. Maybe it already is.

U.S. American here. GO CANADA! The sane ones of us down here are with you!

Meanwhile he’s going to up the carbon tax the Canadian people are paying April 1st. Nobody is going to see these tariffs besides the Canadian government treasury. Even thought he’s trying to defend us he’s a donkey and most of Canada can’t stand him

We knew Trump was going to proceed with Tariffs, we should've not even invested with stronger borders. Let the drugs flow into US, it's on them to secure what comes in.

We cannot trust or believe in what Trump Admin says to us Americans. Please people this is not good for us to be moving this direction. We don't have time on our side here to wait while half of our country blindly follows Trump off the cliff as he plays his tune and yall skip to the music with eyes n ears closed to anything else. I don't want to go down with all of you!

American here instead of telling us what we're going to lose let's hear what you have to gain

Bravo. Facts from JT. Nice to hear a leader who makes sense when he talks. And the vast majority of fentanyl crossing the US Border is going from the US into Canada, not the other way around.

Why did the US not take the approach of EL Salvador to put an end to all drugs? How exactly the tariff will help this problem? We are only going to see an increase in crime with a crushing economy and high inflation.

President Trump is not going to listen to you if you are not stopping the flow of fentanyl coming into the US. President Trump doesn't play games with business so you Mr. PM Trudeau are not doing what President Trump asked you to do. The fentanyl flowing in from Canada is hurting American people and it's unacceptable to President Trump. If Trudeau wants to work with Americans he has to stop lying and do what President Trump asked him to do.

I cant ? say American government going to be there for us. During these hard times.

God help us all bcz we all going to suffer on this !!

Nobody is going to want to come to our Olympics in 2028. Everybody will be mad at us and they'll boycott it. Why don't you just give the Olympics to either Canada or Mexico? At least people will come.

What an idiot. He is making everything worse for Canada. And the nerve to bring up Putin and insinuating Trump is on his side. Then to put down the American people to say Your government is doing this. \nIf he were smart, he wouldnt have made a news conference till his temper calmed down. Then just plainly say we are making the same tarrifs to the US...which essentially is a wash. We dont need Canadas imports. The only reason we go to Canada for supplies is because of regulations, EPA , green deal and special interest groups. \nNow that is over we dont need them.\nCanada has refused secure their border for years.

So pointless ? Harris warned that this will happen ? so many controversies since Trump 2.0 - this is not going to end well for any of us …? I’m praying for better days for yall ???

We Canadians are suckers if we're giving billions more to Ukraine. Trudeau needs to go now. As for the tariff, I think we need to strike back hard, and continue the boycott of US goods. If we could, would be great do cut off all energy going to the States, but thanks to Trudeau, we don't have cross country pipelines to do that. BTW, Canada is not responsible for what comes into your country, we're responsible to keep things out we don't want in. That's the way these things are supposed to work, we're not East Berlin.

Trump is a problem to the developed countries but a bitter blessing to the third world countries. Look at African countries they have everything that nature can provide they are capable of standing on their two F... Foot but the US has been like a mother who doesn't want to let her kids walk by there own feet. The US has been dishing the African countries with chocolate that doesn't benefit them with anything this is the biggest course of poverty in Africa. They need to get away from the USA and the rest of the developed countries so that they can create a better African for their people. Trump please cut them all out cut the relationship so that this countries may elect a proper president without the developed countries planting their puppets. Please let them go for once

China and Canada are like two boxers going up against the US. While China can last to the 11th round, Canada will tap out ten seconds in the first round.

Price is going up. Inflation is going to surge. GDP is dropping. Interest rate can’t be cut…. No good for anyone except for the billionaires. US is losing its allies and friends!

Most of us Americans think what is going on in our government is heinous and disastrous. We love you Canada…do what you got to do.

This is all non sense none of the nation's leaders make sense. The tariffs will be paid by the consumers in all the countries. So basically yall raised the prices of all goods in the US, Canada, Mexico & China and the residents will pay or go without products they need & rely on. ?

This is neither here nor there to Americans but the Canadians will not forget this in a hurry. They are going to boycott American goods of their own free will. The result is the US will have lost market share in Canada well after this tariff spat is over.

I am happy that this will increase the costs on the american people. I hope all provinces remove all USA produced alcohol from their shelves. I hope we apply levies on all energy and mineral exports to the USA. This would include potash, oil, power, nickel, uranium, lumber, etc. I have no ill will to the american people, but your president (whether you elected him or not, he is YOUR president) has started this and you, the american people, are going to end up paying more for everything in the very near future. Your president has now started the FA, and the US public is about to FO. This is NOT hurt any of your billionaires or politicians that brought this upon you. You cannot be upset at anyone than your elected officials.

Trump started this crap!!! We have to stand firm against this Dictator!! Less than 1% of drugs come from Canada - really that was his reason??? He is such a liar and idiot. If people in Canada don't want to be here and want to join the US - I say GO no one is holding you here!!!! Here is the door don't let it hit you on the way out!!!

As a European i FULLY support Canada against this economic bullying.\nI hope Trump not only puts 25% on us Europeans, but 100%!! Let's go. 2 can play this game.\nTo all my Canadian friends, you can be rest assured that i'll vote for politicians that want to work with Canadians, Mexicans AND Chinese!

Europeans start boycotting US products, too! Go Canada!??