{"id":13300,"date":"2025-02-08T15:07:12","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T15:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/08\/trumps-threat-to-annex-canada-a-real-thing-trudeau-tells-business-leaders\/"},"modified":"2025-02-08T15:07:12","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T15:07:12","slug":"trumps-threat-to-annex-canada-a-real-thing-trudeau-tells-business-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/08\/trumps-threat-to-annex-canada-a-real-thing-trudeau-tells-business-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s threat to annex Canada \u2018a real thing,\u2019 Trudeau tells business leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm6v7tua5001h3b6mg9w1zbze@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Trudeau\u2019s comments, first reported by the Toronto Star, were picked up on an open microphone when Trudeau believed the media had been escorted out.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm6v7tua5001i3b6mkkcya0v2@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            \u201cMr. Trump has it in mind that the easiest way to do it is absorbing our country and it is a real thing. In my conversations with him on\u2026,\u201d Trudeau said, according to audio from the Canada-US Economic Summit in Toronto shared by CBC News, before the microphone cut out.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm6v7tua5001j3b6moltegu4d@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Trudeau made the comments after delivering an opening address at the summit, and after journalists had left the room, CBC reported.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm6v7l5xl000u3b6mvs2863ir@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            He added that Canada becoming another US state was \u201cnot going to happen.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm6v7d4nt000f3b6mym1dae6q@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Trump followed through with his threats to impose tariffs on Canada last week, announcing a new 25% duty on most Canadian goods imported into the US. However, after Trudeau made commitments to bolster security at Canada\u2019s border, Trump announced Monday a pause on the proposed tariffs for at least a month.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm6v7lm1y000x3b6moj6dqdtl@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            After a call with Trump, Trudeau said Canada would be implementing its previously announced $1.3 billion border plan, as well as committing to appointing a \u201cfentanyl czar\u201d and listing cartels as terrorists.    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trudeau\u2019s comments, first reported by the Toronto Star, were picked up on an open microphone&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13301,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}