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My government is doing exactly what I voted them to do, Trudeau!!\nSo step away from the mic and let an adult speak for Canada. Because we Americans DO NOT LIKE YOU!

Translation. I did exactly what you said before even if it made others miserable. Now you treat me like you asked me to do to others? You think I am the same as the others? Don’t you see that I am superior to them? My heart is bleeding.

Trudeau is doing exactly what the Canadian people need a leader to do. Weather Trudeau is leaving office or not has no bearing on his actions in the trade war. Long live the free world, with or without the USA.

Legend. Although not saying exactly what he thinks of his friend Donald, not even close. History will

Remember the 1st 2 words in NATO. Exactly. Blow Trudeau, blow.

Trump doesn’t give a damn about the United States. And if you look back at what Steve Bannon said this is exactly what Heritage 25 wants they want chaos in the world so they can do what they need to do.

I'm a canadian who usually agrees with Trump but in this case I feel like this makes no sense. Not sure exactly why Trump is doing all of this but deteriorating relations between us and impacting our economies in such a way makes no sense to me. The stock market is plummeting, jobs on both sides are at risk, prices on both sides of the border will go up. Btw my job won't be affected by these tariffs so i'm not speaking out of anger or fear for my job.

I like how all these liberal morons stand with another country that doesnt do shit for us exactly why we are in the position we are today

exactly like Zelensky was bullied by jd for costume

Hes not being played he knows exactly what hes doing!

I have had many Canadian friend including my first serious girlfriend. I worked with exchange Candian military folks and saw them as full partners. On D-Day Candian troops had their own beach which the successfully captured. They were by our side in Korea and all of our other wars. DJT's excuses for the tariff are fabricated lies exactly as it made up lies that President Zelensky did not show thanks and appreciation. Why is DJT's admin lying? Is it simply incompetence or something worse?

Trudeau understood the assignment. He knew exactly who he was speaking to: not just to Canadians but directly to Americans and beyond.

European here. I have never been stiffed by a Canadian customer. Thank you for facilitating the move of my transatlantic market from the U.S. to Canada. Funny thing: Quebecois sounds almost exactly like Bruxellois. Vive la Liberté!

Trump IS the Russian 5th column, pushed into the U.S.politics, to do exactly this.\n\nU.S. has a mole in the government, and we know who he is.

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

Trudeau is never a great prime minister but he's saying exactly what needs to be said right now

Justine is an entitled and pathetic spoiled brat. Canada deserves exactly what Trump dishes out

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.

America is getting exactly what they voted for. Sad but true

Awh!! Look what Donnie the clown did for you Americans!! Hopefully you’re happy for what you voted for because you’re getting exactly what you deserved maybe try listening or try thinking outside of the box!! being a Democrat or even a Republican doesn’t do shit for you as you can clearly see

Make that make sense....exactly! California is with you Canada!

The sooner the USA and world wakes up to the fact that Trump/Vance/MAGA etc are Russian agents, and that their intention is exactly to harm the USA, then the better.\n\nCanada is an excellent example of how to stand up to bullies and idiots. \n\nAs a British guy with Canadian family, I stand stand with Canada. ??????????????????????????

I'd love to see MAGA explain this one... Canada did exactly what the president asks to avoid tarriffs and now what? Make America harder to live in because the cost of everything is increasing..... because of what? DEI? Some other Don Quixote windmill they want to fight?? I get fired at work if I don't make data-based decisions and make a clear case for why I am doing something. This administration has yet to explain why this is necessary. Show us the 'bad deal' we are getting, explain why it is bad... No more campaign rhetoric.

Trump has been under Putin's control even before his first term, doing exactly what Putin wants from him at the moment. That's the only reason. Maybe he fell into a honeytrap or there’s other compromising material the Russians have on him that they could use to blackmail him. He’s a narcissist, which fits perfectly with this. Anything else doesn’t make sense....or why is he only attacking allies and licking Putins butt?

History will never forget when the American people elected a fachist president and abandoned good/the free world. Shame on the American people! Learn from 1930s Germany - you’re heading in that exact direction!

If you were Russia, this sort of thing is exactly what you want to see. Not suspicious at all, right?

This is EXACTLY who Trump is --- a betrayer and back stabber of friends and allies.

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.

I guess it looks like that this will show the world who the fake leaders are and who exactly the true and worthy leaders are. At this crossing point exactly. It is going to show it all, to everyone. All you have to do it open your mind and your eyes and see. But after that! Let's make it last as Short As Possible!

He did exactly what I thought he was going to do the tariffs are targeting American farmers and food production we sell America 80 percent of our potash. I mean buckle up America your food is about to get a lot more expensive from the moment it starts growing till you buy it.

Donald Trump did said it during his campaign that he doesn’t care about American People, that all he cares about is their Vote. That’s it. But all this Bozos refused to Listen!!! And he’s now doing exactly what he means. Don’t worry bozos, Yo all ain’t seen nothing Yet!!! Da worst of da worst is still on the way?

Congratulations Donald, you’ve managed to destroy another alliance and relationship. Trying to unwind 80 years of economic and security interdependence in the matter of days is not only stupid but dangerous to world order and American national security (defense and Economic). No complaining from those who voted for him. He’s doing exactly what he advertised.

Trump makes America weak and isolated, not strong and great. Exactly what bloody Vlad of Russia would likes to see.

Anyone who ever was a victim of bullying understands exactly what is going on and how it will end for those who wants to appease/bend to the bully. Yes, it will be painful for Canada, extremely. But you have to get really sick in order to recover stronger than ever before. Zelensky knew the inner workings of how bullies work so he probably knew the white house meeting won't end cordially especially it is occupied by people he has no love for and he understood the lack of love was mutual. I think he'd bent over and wagged his tail if he thought that'd help his nation but knowing that will not get his country anywhere anyways, why would he bend over and try to please someone who was determined to screw him and his country to begin with. Zelensky saw how Canadian prime minister was treated and how he tried to please Mr. T yet to no avail. Yes, Zelensky has no real good, readily available cards to play. If the game is rigged, no reason to play by your rule, is there?

It's a shame Trudeau still had to temper his criticism of Trump when he knows exactly what type of narcissistic moronic psychopath he really is.

GREAT!!. The whole world needs to stand up to this disgusting, bullying, ignorant, demented fool in the White House and his spineless quislings in the U.S. Congress. These tariffs are about nothing other than Trump's need to bully and exact retribution against everyone who he thinks has screwed, cheated and disrespected him, which in his mind is just about everyone in the world except Putin.

Question for all americans.....what exactly will trump be doing with the funds collected by the tariffs? Think about it!!!!!!!

This is what trumpets voted for because Biden was so damn horrible...? I hope they remember that when they all are going even more broke and their voices aren't heard anymore by a narcissist.. I say it's exactly what Americans need to learn from the pain.. so we can look past these parties and move forward.

You mention that Americans are 30% more expensive than Canadians but you dont mention that the US is far more unequal with a Gini coefficient of 0.41 vs 0.35 in Canada. Now there is also a known issue with using GDP data to calculate productivity and that is that in sme countries the labor of GDP is much lower than in others. You then end up with Irish productivity being the second highest in the world only because most large US corporations operating in the EU register there to pay lower taxes but most of that revenue is just on paper for Ireland. or with Guyana whose oil and mining revenue makes it productivity equal to that of the US. Maybe that is the case, but is it? and if so why is the average wage in Guyana so much lower? so choosing only one specific stat can make any point of view seem true. you have to look at the bigger picture.\nnow the issue is Canada has been getting more unequal but it is still much better than the US. so what it means is that the higher worker productivity in the US benefits corporations and billionaires far more than it benefits the average American. now if we compare cost of living say between NYC and Toronto:\nCost of Living in Toronto is 37.5% lower than in New York, NY (without rent) \nCost of Living Including Rent in Toronto is 47.1% lower than in New York, NY \nRent Prices in Toronto are 59.2% lower than in New York, NY \nRestaurant Prices in Toronto are 34.5% lower than in New York, NY \nGroceries Prices in Toronto are 33.0% lower than in New York, NY \nLocal Purchasing Power in Toronto is 7.2% higher than in New York, NY \nand this is similar when comparing almost all large Canadian cities with a comparable US one. And whilst housing and NIMBYIsm is real issue you have very similar issues in the US which also has almost no mix zoning. But throw in safety nets and go ask Canadians if they want to change for the US system. I doubt most will. Sure some want things to change but some assuming everyone wants an ultra capitalistic society. most are ok with less growth ut better balanced growth (the exact opposite of the boom and bust US model)

One thing I'm always curious about is why do we use GDP Per Capita to see how well a nation is doing? It doesn't directly measure the standard of life and economic power that the residents of a nation have. Why not use Purchasing Power as this shows exactly how far someones dollar can actually go

It does feel a bit like that, yeah. \n\nStill love this place, but it can feel like you're doing everything right and not exactly leaping ahead financially.

Can confirm things are going terribly and all the boomers are gunna vote for the exact same government that caused a lot of it because they've been doing well

Am I going insane or was Canada getting the exact opposite videos made about it a mere few years ago? I see the same happening with Australia now on YouTube

Students got their visas agreeing to bear the full cost of college showing proof of financial sources from home. Canadian government NEVER ever indicated it will help. In fact Canadian government has been too generous and linient in looking the other way when minimally qualified students flooded unknown colleges and schools and not exactly following the rules. They can flock to UK or Australia but thise governments are not blind to what has been happening in Canada and will likely impose similar restrictions.

The 51st state stuff is definitely not a bluff, it's the exact language that imperialists use to convince their own population they should launch an expansionistic war and genocide. Refrain from opening your videos with that, because it is *deeply* offensive. Might as well joke that Ukrainians and Poles are just Russians with a funny accent.

So…the only thing that we don’t know here is whether or not the guy is actually doing his job. Because guess what? SO many MEN (ubers,lyft, door dash etc etc etc) don’t CARE to READ anything that you write about and they don’t care to do their jobs…I order out so many times and over the years have noticed almost NO men actually do their jobs and have no responsibility…so I don’t know the exact context here.

And what about Israelis?! When Palestinians harbor such vile wishes towards Israelis, when they celebrate violence towards Israeli civilians, what exactly do Gazans expect?!?!

Very well said..exactly

This shows their exact culture

This is exactly why we have issues with Canada. Our military protects them and they do absolutely nothing for our borders.