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I live in Maine on the border with Canada and im absolutely ashamed at what trump is doing. Canada is an incredible country and a great ally to the US, and this entire thing that trump is doing is reprehensible. It would be an improvement to have a leader like Trudeau who can actually get a point across.

I don't know much about this guy. But why is he unpopular in Canada to the point that he resigned from office ? He looks and sounds so smart and he is working damn well for his country. I love him !

Close your open door policy and stop letting everyone come to your country. And then they sneak into our country. Go to Vancouver and you will see there is a brown and yellow town I mean how many of them are illegal. On the other hand i understand what you saying. Key words border check point. But how long is the border in Canada thousands of ways for stuff to come through

At this point, North America is done, just because of a narcissistic and egoistic orange man?

I remember when we had a president that could speak in complete sentences without any name calling and pointing fingers at everyone else. Canada, you are doing exactly what you do when you see a bully, you stand up and fight back. As an American, I’m so embarrassed by trump’s behavior but sadly I am not surprised.

From the US, I can't blame Trudeau one bit, he makes a lot of great points. And yeah, this is going to suck.

Read these comments, quite ridiculous…. This man has destroyed Canada… his poll at one point reached single digit… as a result, he pretended to resign in order to delay the election… currently, the parliament does not function even in such critical moment, coz his ‘resignation’….

An excellent speech, truthful, powerful and to the point. As for the fentynol, well, not matter what you do, and no matter how much you spend, the CIA will still find a way to sneak it into the States just like they did with the cocaine epidemic THEY started in the 80s.

CANADA be proud of your Country and Prime Minister Trudeau for delivering such a clear and too the point message on what is a senseless and pointless trade war. All the Best, IRELAND

At this point I respect Trudeau more than Trump. Trump is a blatant liar!

Half truths. The fent as well as illegals don't cross those borders hes talking about. The smugglers know the weak points of that 4,000 mile stretch. This is like a little league player challenging Jordan. They Need Us. We are finally taking advantage of all economic streams as we should. The Taxpayers deserve a break. Subsidize our people with the money we send abroad and grow our economy, it's our money.

I have disliked trudeau for years. Im glad he is leaving and nothing he does now will change that or my mind. \n\nHowever, his responses lately have been on point. We will not back down and this is not on us. This is the states doing!!

Justin was on point until he said Trump was smart lol

The Liberal Lunatic media are treasonous at this point. Always twerking for foreign governments.

Damn proud to be part of the commonwealth at this point and time we will unite to fight against the unjust

I'm an American and I applaud your honest, grounded and to the point speech. What I'd like to hear from this side of the boarder. Stay strong Canada.

But hold on a minute, Donald Trump is pointing the finger at president Zelenskiy of Ukraine saying that he would cause World War three let everyone just take a step back and look at the mess that Donald Trump is causing in the US is behaving like a mafia boss employing and bringing in all the criminals of the millionaire world from the bottom of the barrel They want to play with Canada. They want to try and take over the Panama Canal, and take Greenland doesn’t this not sound like something that Putin is carrying out right now how do you rain in in this modern day? a president, of the free world who is psychotic deranged and suicidal.

A huge deterioration with allies indeed. Over the past week or so a huge deterioration with Ukraine, a huge deterioration with Europe, a huge deterioration with NATO and a huge deterioration with Mexico. And I'm sure I'm missing quite a few more nations. All that coupled with many other matters in US domestic and foreign policies point to the continuation of the irreversible decline of the American empire in my view.

I as Canadian stand with Canada & Canadian Government. All points raised are Valid.\n USA imposed sudden & thoughtless changes in Trade.

Why Canada, Mexico, or any other country in the world doesn’t have the problem of drugs except United States of America. Why is that.? Think about it, we are the consumer and want to Party Up like there is no tomorrow. So Donald trump get your S.H.I.# in gear and clean up your mess first before you point fingers.

Trudeau won back some points in the past Month as he's facing the biggest bully on the surface of this planet.

The only thing that was wrong with this speech was referring to Trump as “very smart guy”.. This is what a true leader sounds like! Intelligent, speaking facts and to the point!??????????

Good for you Canada! I’m an American but at the current moment I wish I wasn’t. I stand with Canada, Ukraine, Mexico and China. Please don’t back down at any point. If you do…orange face has won!

How about Trump dismantling something worth doing : Scientology, there he'll score some points

Trump wants the World to collapse so his billionaires and america can buy up the stock market and dominate the World. It’s not trade blocks, it’s Dictator blocks. If that doesn’t work he’ll invade Canada and Mexico most likely and just take it. At this point, I hope America implodes. Either way it’s a mass suicide. Trump isn’t a smart man, he’s an evil man. And people who persist in making excuses for this creature are just traitors, the lowest of the low, stupid, greedy war mongers.

Why does he feel the need to stroke Trump's ego, calling him a smart man, while condemning his actions. He articulates all the harm and difficulties Trump's actions, and these tariffs will cause, but refuses to point to the source of this stupidity directly, and call him out for it.

I disagree on one point. Donnie is not a smart man. I realize Trudeau was just being diplomatic though.

we are calling it stupid, because it is bad for the economie. But perhaps that is the point. If you know in advance when the ecconomie will go down or up you can make a lot of money. So that gives Trump and his court of oligarchs a considerable amount of income.

Yes! Thank you for pointing out so succinctly what the US government is doing to its citizens.

A very good speech! Made very good points. How Americans can support tRump escapes me.

So the American government protects Canada with our military and cost the American tax paying people billions of dollars to protect this country that we get nothing in return for our protection. You send more product to America, then you take from America.\n But yet America is the bad guy in this, it seems to me. That Canadians. to step up in all of these point and maybe America would not have to put tariffs to help us as taxpaying citizens have a lower tax Is four tax paying citizens because. Our taxes go to help protect the canadian people

That man gets his point across with tremendous tact, poise, and articulation. I need to learn how to present as classy as this professional.

If Trump could blame the mating call of wild turkeys for his destruction he would lie about it enough times to eventually brainwash people into believing this ....that is Trump's playbook and has been forever, he demeans, boasts, cons, lies, swindles, shakesdown, confuses, cheats, entrappes, blackmails, seeks revenge gambles, blames others, points his finger, humiliates, denigrates, punishes, demoralizes,.... a real scumbag

Trudeau collapsed his own countries economy to a point he had to resign. His opinion means nothing.

Wait,so CANADA has no flaws or mistakes? Are they perfect? Is Canadian people better than Americans? Because all that has been said points that Canada is never wrong, they do everything perfect.

It makes perfect sense what are any of you talking about you're missing the whole point we are all allied with Russia what Trump has wanted from day one get with the times. This is not the same country it was a month and a half ago

If you can't see that Trump is a Russian asset at this point, you're a complete and utter moron. He's LITERALLY going after Canada, NATO, Mexico, and Ukraine....each of which is making Putin more powerful.

Why won’t Canada just remove the tariffs they’ve had on American imports. That’s always the point that is never brought up - why can Canada tariff American imports and America cannot?

All pointed that Trump himself wants to destroy USA ( i have the feeling that was a promise made to Putin) with all of us in there.

As an American, I always thought Justin was a respectable guy. At this point with republicans being pussies, I’d rather Canada just buy America.

Noone can convince me that he isn't agent Krasnov at this point.\n\nHis actions only make sense if he is trying to hurt Western Democracies.

Trudeau is a man. Period. Trudeau est un homme, point final.

tRump gave the Prime Minister the best gift ever, a war that Canada didn't start but rallies the whole country together against an antagonistic bully. Trudeau will get a 20 point bump in his approval ratings and go out a winner.

Good job. Good speech. In point.

It's about setting the stage for WW3. President Chump will align with russia, and be a jumping point for them to Canada and Mexico ...

Thank you for this, Mr. Trudeau. As an American. At some point a line had to be drawn, you can't just keep coddling a power-hungry toddler forever. I feel more hopeful that Canada's action will bring positive change to America than that our administration will protect any of us.

At what point does someone hold trump accountable for treason? He is directly working against US interests and aligning with Russia who has goals to damage America? Where are the grown-ups?

The United States relationship with the rest of the free world is at its lowest point in its history - fear not, we're closer than ever to Putin and Russia. No doubt he'll soon be visiting North Korea, Hungary and Belarus.

Your the reason why he put the tariffs on you clown. You've destroyed canada it's at its weakest point ever. Housing problems, immigration problems, too many people coming to fast Way to fast. Our borders are a joke the drug problems in this country is out of control and this is all because of you and your liberal commie buddies shitty ass policies and terrible ideas.

From the USA: Why is it right for Canada to tariff us more than we tariff them? Trump pointed out that there was a 200 billion a year tariff deficit for the USA. Some say that number is inflated and the real number is somewhere around the 70 billion mark in Canada's favor. No one disagrees that the US has a huge tariff deficit with Canada. So, the USA is just leveling the playing field. It's time to truly have level trade with the rest of the world, not just Canada. No more free lunch from the US to the world. We want free and fair trade, but for that to happen we must tariff other countries goods at exactly the same level they tariff our goods.