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Amid rapidly growing anxiety over the potential harms to Canada if President-elect Donald J. Trump fulfills his promise to impose heavy tariffs on the countryjb casino, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Tuesday that he would seek a united political front at an emergency meeting the following day with all of his country’s provincial and territorial leaders.
“One of the really important things is that we be all pulling together on this,” he told reporters in Ottawa. “The Team Canada approach is what works.”
But Mr. Trudeau may not be able to muster as unified a response as he managed during the previous Trump administration. Most of the premiers are his political opponents, his Liberal federal government isn’t polling well and he is vulnerable in the next federal election, which must be held within a year.
In the aftermath of Mr. Trump’s announcement, several premiers criticized Mr. Trudeau as much as they denounced Mr. Trump’s plan.
“The concerns expressed by Donald Trump are legitimate concerns,” François Legault, the premier of Quebec, said at a news conference, adding that he would demand that his province be allowed to directly join any possible trade negotiations with the United States. He also, like many of Mr. Trudeau’s political opponents, accused the prime minister of not taking the threat of tariffs seriously enough, predicting that tens of thousands of jobs would be lost in Quebec and the rest of Canada.
Doug Ford, a Progressive Conservative and the premier of Ontario, the most populous province and the center of manufacturing in Canada, said that the announcement by Mr. Trump felt “like a family member stabbing you right in the heart.”
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