{"id":133241,"date":"2024-12-04T14:53:56","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T07:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=133241"},"modified":"2024-12-04T14:53:56","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T07:53:56","slug":"minister-says-trump-was-joking-about-canada-becoming-us-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=133241","title":{"rendered":"Minister says Trump was joking about Canada becoming US state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>TORONTO (AP) \u2014 <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/donald-trump\">President-elect Donald Trump<\/a><\/span> was joking when he suggested Canada become the 51st U.S. state during a dinner with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, a Canadian minister who attended their <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/canada-us-trudeau-trump-tariffs-4129d793d8e1a60fd6d1f45697901a21\">recent dinner<\/a><\/span> said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News reported that Trump made the comment in response to Trudeau raising concerns that Trump\u2019s threatened tariffs on Canada would damage Canada\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n<p>Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc, who attended the Friday dinner at Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago club, said Trump\u2019s comments were in jest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president was telling jokes. The president was teasing us. It was, of course, on that issue, in no way a serious comment,\u201d LeBlanc told reporters in Ottawa.<\/p>\n<p>LeBlanc described it as a three-hour social evening at the president\u2019s residence in Florida on a long weekend of American Thanksgiving. \u201cThe conversation was going to be light-hearted,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>He called the relations warm and cordial and said the fact that \u201cthe president is able to joke like that for us\u201d indicates good relations.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Trump appeared to continue with the joke, posting on his Truth Social platform an AI-generated image of himself standing on a mountain with a Canadian flag next to him with the caption \u201cOh Canada!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gerald Butts, a former top adviser to Trudeau and a close friend, said Trump has done this before.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump used the \u201d51st State\u201d line with Trudeau a lot during his first term,\u201d Butts wrote in a post on LinkedIn. \u201cWhen someone is trying to get you to freak out, don\u2019t. #protip\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier last week, the Republican president-elect <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/with%20Donald%20Trump%20at%20his%20Mar-a-Lago%20club\">threatened to impose<\/a><\/span> a 25% tax on all products <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/tariffs-trump-trade-policy-economy-0fb9740a4b42c734c75b64ba09c901d5\">entering the U.S.<\/a><\/span> from Canada and <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/mexico-tariffs-trump-retaliate-sheinbaum-fac0b0c6ee8c425a928418de7332b74a\">Mexico<\/a><\/span> unless they stem the flow of migrants and drugs.<\/p>\n<p>Trudeau requested the meeting in <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/canada-trudeau-united-states-trump-tariffs-42878c1cac442fc7a51c36fbc5fc78a3\">a bid to avoid the tariffs by convincing Trump<\/a><\/span> that the northern border is <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/mexico-canada-us-trump-tariffs-668a06c2beba2fca1967ab628db68418\">nothing like the U.S. southern border with Mexico<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Trudeau held a rare meeting with opposition leaders on Tuesday about U.S-Canada relations and later said that opposition Conservative leader <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/pierre-poilievre\">Pierre Poilievre<\/a><\/span> shouldn\u2019t amplify the erroneous narratives that Americans are saying about the border.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLess than one percent of migrants coming into the United States irregularly come from Canada and 0.2 percent of the fentanyl coming into the United States comes from Canada,\u201d Trudeau said in Parliament. <\/p>\n<p>Canadian officials have said there are plans to put more helicopters, drones and law enforcement officers at the border.<\/p>\n<p>At the dinner, Kristen Hillman, Canada\u2019s ambassador to the U.S., said America\u2019s trade deficit with Canada was also raised. Hillman said the U.S. had a $75 billion trade deficit with Canada last year but noted a third of what Canada sells into the U.S. is energy exports and prices have been high.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrade balances are something that he focuses on so it\u2019s important to engage in that conversation but to put it into context,\u201d Hillman told The Associated Press. \u201cWe are one-tenth the size of the United States so a balanced trade deal would mean per capita we are buying 10 times more from the U.S. than they are buying from us. If that\u2019s his metric we will certainly engage on that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hillman said Canada sold $170 billion worth of energy products last year to the U.S. <\/p>\n<p>About 60% of U.S. crude oil imports are from Canada, and 85% of U.S. electricity imports as well.<\/p>\n<p>Canada is also the largest foreign supplier of steel, aluminum and uranium to the U.S. and has 34 critical minerals and metals that the Pentagon is eager for and investing for national security.<\/p>\n<p>About 77% of Canada\u2019s exports go to the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Trudeau\u2019s government successfully employed a \u201cTeam Canada\u201d approach during Trump\u2019s first term in office when the free trade deal between Canada, the U.S. and <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/us-mexico-trade-jobs-nafta-trump-usmca-4c6a51df6ebcd2acf5c6863012f9777b\">Mexico was renegotiated.<\/a><\/span> But Trudeau\u2019s minority government is in a much weaker position politically now and faces an election within a year. <\/p>\n<p>Poilievre, Canada\u2019s opposition leader, said the tariffs would harm Americans. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president-elect was elected on a promise to make America richer. These tariffs would make America poorer,\u201d <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/pierre-poilievre\">Poilievre<\/a><\/span> said after meeting with Trudeau.<\/p>\n<p>Poilievre said the U.S. would be wise to do more free trade with its best friend and closest ally. <\/p>\n<p>Canada is the top export destination for 36 U.S. states. Nearly 3.6 billion Canadian dollars ($2.7 billion) worth of goods and services cross the border each day. <\/p>\n<p>Trudeau returned home after the dinner at Mar-a-Lago club in Florida <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trudeau-trump-canada-tariffs-mexico-border-e0ee7f9b3dddc80d1260585c11869fff\">without assurances<\/a><\/span> Trump would back away from threatened tariffs on all products from the major American trading partner. Trump called the talks \u201cproductive\u201d but signaled no retreat from a pledge that Canada says unfairly lumps it in with Mexico over the flow of drugs and migrants into the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The flows of migrants and seizures of drugs are vastly different. U.S. customs agents seized 43 pounds of fentanyl at the Canadian border during the last fiscal year, compared with 21,100 pounds at the Mexican border.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the fentanyl reaching the U.S. \u2014 where it causes about 70,000 overdose deaths annually \u2014 is <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/mexico-fentanyl-methamphetamines-ffeb696dc0031b46cd9ad73d1cfef6d0\">made by Mexican drug cartels<\/a><\/span> using precursor chemicals smuggled from Asia.<\/p>\n<p>On immigration, the U.S. Border Patrol reported 1.53 million encounters with irregular migrants at the southwest border with Mexico between October 2023 and September 2024. 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