“Trump’s effect”: How did we identify the customs tariff “, state threats 51”, shaking Canada | Donald Trump News

Montreal, Canada – Even before the White House officially re -entered last month to start his second term as President of the United States, Donald Trump had repeatedly assumed an unlikely goal: Canada.

Trump argued that his northern neighbor in his country failed to collapse Irregular migration And drug trafficking on its borders with the United States, and threatened to impose a severe tariff on Canadian imports.

To avoid these measures, which experts say they will do so The Canadian economy destroyedThen the Republican leader presented an idea: Canada can become the 51st American state.

“I think Canada will be better in being a state of 51,” the US president reiterated in an interview with Fox News that was broadcast during the weekend, continuing a pressure campaign that raised in December.

Although the proposal has been widely convicted, Trump’s comments – and His constant threat To impose customs duties of 25 percent or higher on Canadian goods, including steel and aluminum imports – they collected trade unions, politicians and regular persons across Canada.

Calls to boycott American products and stop trips to the United States Steam, as well as a national batch to rethink Canada’s long relying on border trade.

The leaders of the major Canadian political parties, as well as the regional and regional prime minister, used the harsh rhetoric against their country The highest international allyAnd he promised to defend economic interests and sovereignty in Canada.

“The saying that it is a unique moment will be cheap,” said Shacci Corle, head of the Angus Reed Institute, an independent Canadian research company.

Corle explained that the mood in Canada is now one of anxiety and fear on the one hand, and challenge and anger on the other hand.

For many, the feeling is that “Canada did not choose this battle, but if they will take a punch, they will try to give one right.”

“Trump’s effect”

Trump’s repeated threats against Canada come in a already political moment.

The country was in the crisis of the ability to bear the costs for a year, and the high grocery prices and housing costs have increased angry speech against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

At the beginning of the year, Trudeau announced plans to step down as soon as his ruling liberal party He chooses behind him. A new leader and the prime minister will be chosen in early March, ending nearly a decade of governments led by Trudeau in Ottawa.

The country is also preparing for the federal elections, which must be held before late October.

Daniel Bellland, a professor at McGill University in Montreal and director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, said that Trump’s speech and Trump’s proposals have become a political issue in Canada, despite that background, has become the supreme political issue in Canada.

“The most important factor in Canadian politics at the present time does not live in Canada – it’s Donald Trump,” said Bellland, Al Jazeera.

The professor, who is called “Trump’s influence”, said that the “polling question” in the upcoming Canadian elections may end up until the political party and the leader is the most appropriate to deal with the American president and relations between Canada and the United States.

This could effectively change the race.

“The national crisis that resulted in Trump … has really changed the agenda and may also change the perception of what people think is required for the country at this stage and what they want to get.”

Politicians use a wave of patriotism

In fact, some voting suggested that the Trump administration could be among the changing factors how Canadians plan to vote in the upcoming elections.

The opposition Conservative Party had enjoyed Driving, dual -number lead The liberals who are unpopular until recently.

But with the Prime Minister of Canada by threatening Trump’s tariff, and the liberal leadership race enhances the party’s interest, the phone call appears to be transformed.

The leadership of the conservatives narrowed the liberals to nine percentage points, which is recently marketing reconnaissance He found.

The same poll found that conservative leader Pierre Pollyfer and Mark CarneyThe former bank ruler in Canada, who is the candidate who is the next liberal leader, was a neck where Canadians believe he could deal with Trump in the best way.

Twenty -two percent of the respondents said Poilievre was their favorite choice to manage the relationship between Canada and the United States, compared to 20 percent who chose Carney.

Payland explained that Poilievre finds himself in a difficult situation, as part of the Conservative Party’s base loves Trump and its policies. Others hope that the conservative leader can stand up to Trump.

The right -wing Prime Minister in Canada The oil -rich Alberta provinceDaniel Smith, among those who followed a more reconciliation approach to Trump. Any discussions on imposing a retaliatory tariff on Canadian energy exports to the United States have refused.

“Daniel Smith is a major conservative figure in Canada, and she adopts a soft approach to Trump while (Poilievre) is trying to be bolder without isolating his base. Payland said:” It is not easy for him to move. “

Meanwhile, an opinion poll showed that the Canadians refused an overwhelming majority that Puscent of Trump to make Canada the 51st American state. Support is also increasing for more sovereignty over trade and infrastructure throughout the country.

“Initially, the Canadians were somewhat upgraded” Trump’s comments about the seizure of Canada, he told Corle Al -Jazeera in an email.

But now, “Trump’s repetition of annexation plans, along with all definitions, led the Canadians to a more harsh place.”

accident Angus Reed analysis I found that the percentage of Canadians say they were “very proud” in their country, with 10 percentage points – from 34 to 44 percent – between December and February.

The percentage of people who said they wanted Canada joined the United States from 6 to 4 percent. “Every political tape was trying to benefit from,” Corle said. “This national feelings.

“Thinking about us all the time”

This includes Doug Ford, the right -wing prime minister in Ontario, the most overly populated Canada province, which hold regional elections later this month.

Ford retreated against Trump’s tariff a central column in his campaign to re -election.

He and the other leaders traveled to all provinces and regions in Canada to Washington, DC, on Wednesday to defend their interests and strengthen trade relations between Canada. Ford told reporters: “This is the first time that 13 ministers have appeared to Washington,” Ford told reporters.

“We are their largest commercial partner,” he said. The total number of imports and export of goods between the two countries reached more than 700 billion dollars (more than $ 1 trillion in Canadian dollars) last year, according to it. Canadian government personalities.

“We are one agent. I am not sure if they fully understand the effect of (definitions) on both countries, both sides of the border,” added Ford.

This is the same message that Trudeau and his government is promoting since Trump first threatened the definitions of Canada shortly after his victory in his re -election in November last year.

Country He received a re -postpone last week When the US President agreed to stop the definitions by 25 percent on all Canadian goods and definitions by 10 percent on Canadian oil for 30 days, until early March.

But the threat is still waving on the horizon, and it has stimulated the pressure of the new United States to impose definitions on all steel and aluminum imports on March 12 new concerns.

“It is important to understand that Canada will respond as an appropriate way, in a calibration in a very strong way, regardless of what the United States is progressing,” Trudeau told reporters during a visit to Brussels, Belgium, on Wednesday.

Whatever happens, Bellland from McGil University said it is clear that Canadian policy will be strongly affected in the coming weeks and months by Trump and his administration.

He told Al -Jazeera: “Most Americans do not think about Canada often,” he told Al -Jazeera.

“But at the present time, Canadians are considering the (United States) all the time and they are tired of it – but they do not have much options.”