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Don’t be fooled. Trudeau has tanked the Canadian economy through disastrous mismanagement during his 9 year tenure. Our debt has ballooned, inflation has neutered the Canadian dollar, we are taxed into oblivion, face an unparalleled housing crisis that is linked to foreign money laundering schemes to name a few reasons. If he had not handcuffed our energy sector with pipeline bans and crushing carbon neutral BS. diversified our customer base globally and promoted home grown manufacturing instead, we could deal better absorbing Trump’s ill advised tariff war. JT is the poster child for the globalist agenda (read WEF) and has been convicted of ethics violations in multiple instances. He’s an actor (literally) and virtue signalling fool. His stats regarding the fentanyl problem are laughable considering we inspect less than 1 % of the foreign containers passing through Vancouver. Trump has inadvertently handed JT a lifeline for the Liberals political future and he’s capitalizing on it. Don’t buy the BS. Think about JT’s political record and apply that knowledge going forward.

Fentanyl raw materials and equipment for processing is exported from China. Mail orders directly has also been used.\nBut high taxes are places on Canada and Mexico. \nThis is not about fentanyl.

If you all believe that this is actually about fentanyl or the border - you're totally naive. Just look at the attacks being undertaken by Trump and Vance towards their allies around the world. This is abouts severing ties, and trying to assert dominance over its former friends. To declare the US the biggest bully in the schoolyard. This is Vladimir Putin's playbook - and his wildest dreams come true. It will only serve to isolate and weaken the US. As a Canadian - very proud of Trudeau's direct, honest comments.

wasnt the main reason for the tarifs because of fentanyl

My brother and sister-in-law died from Fentanyl. These tariffs are totally worth it. Get the message Canada and get it done.

This has nothing to do with fentanyl. This is about a Russian asset undoing 80 years of Western alliances and pushing forward the Kremlin agenda.

This from a man who has openly made fun of Trump & his policies on live T.V thinking . \nHave just seen numbers from USA border showing more Fentanyl coming into my Country from the USA then Fentanyl going into the USA . Same numbers for immigrants so do not know what Trump is talking about.

Canada needs to open your eyes and need to stop fentanyl and migrants from coming into our country.

Respect to Trudeau - even though he felt obliged to flatter 'Donald' a bit. \nForget about fentanyl - who will save America from the scourge of trump ?

Coke-a-Cola keeps their formula a SECRET! Fentanyl is being made WHERE and being sold on the Black Market by the CIA as part of the depopulation agenda. How stupid does TRUMP think we are? Now, he will lose his MAGA base.

Making a mistake by validating the BS lie via stating everything that Canada is doing against fentanyl. “Don’t wrestle with pigs, you both get dirty and the pig likes it”. \n\nDumb Americans don’t understand what 1.3 B $ border plan is, they don’t know if that is enough and you’re placing yourself in a position of 1) recognizing the problem as legitimate, and 2)“are you doing enough”. Call it for what it is, bullshit - It was never about safety and fentanyl was a lame unfounded excuse. Know your audience, don’t fall into the Trump trap and speak in simple terms.

No one believes the fentanyl lies the American Nazis in the Whitehouse tell NO ONE!!! they should have already been dragged out and took to the gilotin CANADA is our loyal family and we have attacked our own familyand the tariffs are on US!! he has lied on Canada to steal from all of us to give more and more to the billionaires THE OLIGARDS OF AMERICA!!! the elderly of America will starve the children of America will starve and our children of America will be working the jobs the immigrants work to support their families and that is the plan it's in their 2025 plan and everyone who voted for it knew it !!! NOW only knowing they are doing everything in their power to fight this is the only way they will be shown any sympathy!!! everyone who supports these Nazis should be exposed every business from the billionaires to the hotdog stand should be boycotted the real Americans need to support each other now ! what people need now is constant information on who is helping and who is not!! and if the media is going to support the people then we must not support them !! and the commercials on media that show any support to these aggressors or works to suppresses the truth should noted and boycotted .we must boycott them all we cannot give them a penny and take any penny we can we must get our country back let's all go AMERICA NOW!!! we must save america

Donald was going to put tariffs on them no matter what. The non existant fentanyl issue was just his excuse to do Russia's bidding against his allies.

You allow people to used your country to illegally crossed the border to NYC in buses with fentanyl. Prob you don’t know what’s happening in your country or you don’t care. Did you even see the videos?

So the Canadians are getting blamed for the fentanyl coming across the southern border….. trump has gone looney

Donald Trump, as a U.S. President, was not sincere. During his campaign, he falsely claimed that people in the U.S. eat cats and dogs, a statement that has no truth to it. After becoming president, he continued to use the issue of fentanyl as a justification for imposing tariffs on Canada. His actions suggest that he is not genuinely interested in moving the country forward but rather using tariffs as an excuse, which could ultimately harm Americans

Maybe the US should try to figure out why so many of its citizens are using fentanyl and other hard drugs. They're blaming other countries instead of addressing the actual issue of addiction and the market for those drugs. Maybe stop buying the stuff and there wouldn't be a market for it...

#1. Trump postponed so that Canada wouldn’t literally freeze them out by cutting off energy. Now that winter is ending it’s game on\n#2. If Trump wanted to start a war with Canada he needs congress. The only way to get them on his side is Canada to poke the US in the eye.\n#3. Quit talking about Fentanyl without pointing every finger at China. \n#4. If you like how Trudeau is acting now, after 9 years. That’s just a politician who knows they won’t be re-elected. He still has to protect his party though. Too little too late

I seem to recall the whole tariff thing started when Donald wanted to even up the 200 billion dollar subsidy to Canada which doesn’t exist, then he chose the immigration and fentanyl crisis that doesn’t exist … can’t wait to hear the next excuse. I would love to hear the real reason for this, and we will one day. I have no doubt that we Canadians will survive this nonsense as we always do.

Canada the world capital of zombies fentanyl zombies

⛔️⛔️WHY DID IT TAKE THE TARIFFS TO GET THE FENTANYL CROSSING YOU BORDER SO LOW????

Get ready for this country's name change to United States to North America since it's going to a dictatorship direction. The boarders aren't to keep immigrants out. It's to keep us from escaping, putting us in the same situation as North Korea. I also don't put it past that fentanyl is being supplied by the U.S. government the same way the CIA did it in contra-crack. Ladies and gentlemen we are going to be in a civil war soon because of this man and his group. Trump's presidency must end quickly.

what I am confused the most, beyond how dumb the tariff is, is why Trump needs a fentanyl pretext. it's so fake, and Trump is so shameless anyway. why even bother?

Trudeau is no “friend” and a very poor ally. The USA only imports 1% from the future 51st state. Canada imports 25% from the USA. Gov Trudeau is lying about who gets hurt. It will be those above the border. Stop the fentanyl Justine. That’s the whole point of the tariffs. You are killing Americans.

Not blistering enough. By saying that fentanyl is the “supposed legal reason” for tariffs, what he really means is that these tariffs are a criminal act.

The only reason for doing this i think is to have an excuse for trading with Russia instead. It’s not about fentanyl or unfair trade relation it’s simply an excuse to isolate allies and make them beg for mercy.

Never been about the Fentanyl, It is just an excuse to work in the Tarrifs so he can offset his tax reduction for himself.\nStarted with the 3 biggest trade partners to get the most gains, EU Tarrifs will come.

Agrees with him on everything except for fentanyl. \nAs a disabled person with a chronic illness I am 100% reliant on fentanyl which is more efficient than morphine with less side effects and I may as well kill myself now if they 'remove it from the face of the earth '. \nIt's not always used illegally but those of us who need it to survive and get by day to day are victimised every time a drug addiction uses this

So Putin lied …. I mean Putins Bit ch lied about imposing tariffs if Canada and Mexico didn’t do something about the flow of fentanyl to the US and now that they did. He played them both ?.

Nobody, nobody, really thinks this was about fentanyl.

Canadian have never believed that fentanyl or illegal immigrants coming across the border is the issue! We have never been the problem but have added 1.2 billion in extra security to our border. Trump is after something else...

How about looking at the amount of illegal firearms coming into Canada from the USA? Bet it's higher than the less than 1% fentanyl we're so quick to point to as the reason for this trade war.

Let's be fucking clear here; much more fentanyl is coming into Canada from the US than vice versa.

Stop the illegals from crossing the northern American border and especially stop the Fentanyl coming across.

I wonder how much fentanyl goes into Canada from the US?

It's not about Fentanyl (tm) it's about Donald wishing to raise money.

Why isn't Canada doing anything to stop illicit drugs in their Country. That's what this is about. Trump is America First and I won't apologize for that. \nTrudeau is talking like he has some kind of power over the U.S. Not very smart Canada will go broke if they don't comply with Trump's reques to shut down drug trafficking in Canada that comes across our border. \nFentanyl is still detected in an overwhelming majority of illicit drug deaths in Canada, according to PHAC, but the unpredictability and potency of other substances mixed in with the fentanyl are making the supply more dangerous. \nMexican cartels are operating fentanyl and nitazene synthesis labs in Canada. \nA recent study recognized Canada’s heightened domestic production of fentanyl, and its growing footprint within international narcotics distribution. \nCanada-based drug trafficking organizations maintain robust “super labs,” mostly in rural and dense areas in western Canada, some of which can produce 44 to 66 pounds of fentanyl weekly.

What a prick. Acting like putin is a criminal and dupporting that teprobate killer zelensky. Outrageous. And outrageous trying to pretend the US is evil. Go ahead canada, kiss his butt. The US will dirvive better than canada. And hes trying to subvert the US citizen. But he doesnt want to do crap about the border. His own nayives suffer kidnaping for himan trafficking constantly. \nTrudeau is a woke lefty and a little tyrant. We arent hust talking fentanyl here castro jr.

Stupidity kills more people than fentanyl. Can we get Trudeau to be our president. How to fire Trump?

Trumps orders from Putin is to cause chaos, drive a stake between our friendly democracies and to break NATO. It has nothing to do with what Trump says, it has nothing to do with fentanyl!! Putin is calling the shots don’t you believe in anything else!!

Fentanyl, immigration, and tariffs are just an excuse for Trump. He wants to take over Canada, Panama, and the Greenland for the economic benefits they bring to the USA, nothing more.

Mr Tudeau, how many Canadian teenagers got Fentanyl overdose today?

From a Canadian citizen.\n\nExcellent speech, nice presentation with sugar coating, but the taste?\nHowever Trudeau is not telling the Truth about the Fentanyl of less than one ounce coming through the border?\nHow about Oil, Lumber and other minerals trades?\nThe USA has ten times more than what Canada have.\nWhat about border protection? Canada invested in two helicopters and many drones with thousands of land miles and the same on water to protect?\nThe cartels are much smarter than Trudeau borders policing, because they've already installed thousands of infiltrators throughout Canada to deliver any drug amount to the USA.\nAnd calling the president by his first name?\nTrudeau is taking Canada to another level, lower than we've seen or felt, because he's not a politician and not a businessman.\nFor last.\nThe notion that our lower level of politics still uses the word FIGHT instead of making a DEAL.\n\nAnd their old ways of saying, WE ARE WORKING HARD.\nINSTEAD OF WORKING SMART.\n\nMy opinions.

Trump's tariffs justification claiming fentanyl is like the Bush administration justification of war for weapons of mass destruction. Republican Playbook to fool the unthinking masses. If it works keep using it. We'll find the truth a decade later after a fact finding commission like the Iraq weapons of mass destruction.

●Canada less than 1% fentanyl comes thru Canadian border. Canada doesn’t make any precursor drugs for fentanyl. Tariff 25%?\n\n●China -99.5% of precursor drugs needed to make fentanyl come from china. No regulations. Tariffs 10%??\n\nMost should know that the fentanyl coming thru Canada is less than 1% If your wondering where the other 99% is coming from,know this- china allows the sale of the precursor drugs needed to make fentanyl, and it's unregulated. They suppy the mexican cartels these drugs to make and sell which comes across Mexican borders into the US. If china regulated the precursor drugs it could stop fentanyl manufacturing in its tracks. Again 10% tariffs vs 25% tariff. There was a time that china cooperated & worked with the US on this but have since stopped.\nSo whatever is going on with the trump administration, it's clear by the numbers this isn't about fentanyl with Canada. Especially since he didn't extend the same tariffs to the country that could actually stop the making of this horrible drug.

Fentanyl doesn’t kill people the same way guns don’t kill people. Americans are hypocrites

Great speech and right move, but I'm sure hospitals, and more specifically anesthesiologists, would strongly disagree with wanting to wipe fentanyl from the face of the earth ?

“Blistering” in the feyest manner ever. It’s USA first buddy, we’ve been footing the bill for your country in so many ways for decades. Also, why did it take Trump telling you to go after the fentanyl makers in your country to prevent it coming across our border?

#Fdjt Fentanyl is an excuse!

THE FENTANYL CRISIS STARTED BECAUSE OF THE WOKE AS LIBERALS FILLING THERE POCKETS WITH TAX PAYERS AND PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES MONEY