Trump Threats Shape Canada’s Succession Race Before It Has Really Begun
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The race to be Canada’s next prime minister is still at the starting line and Donald Trump has already cast a shadow over it.
The US president-elect made his most menacing comments yet about Canada on Tuesday, suggesting his administration could use “economic force” to turn the country into a US state. Trump repeated his claim that the US trade deficit is a subsidy and his intention to impose “serious” tariffs on goods the US buys from Canada and Mexico.