Juno News - January 07, 2025


NO JOKEļ¼š Donald Trump threatens to ANNEX Canada by ļ¼‚Economic Forceļ¼‚


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8 minutes

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168.0221

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1,460

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107


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00:00:00.000 Today, incoming U.S. President Donald Trump has officially threatened to use economic force to annex Canada.
00:00:07.320 If you were to work under the assumption that you're serious about making Canada the 51st state of the United States,
00:00:13.240 the leader of the Conservative Party in Canada said, under no circumstances, he'll never be the 51st state.
00:00:17.940 Maybe he won't win, but maybe he will.
00:00:20.220 To David's point, you had suggested that you're considering military force to acquire Panama and Greenland.
00:00:29.280 Are you also considering military force to annex and acquire Panama?
00:00:32.940 No. Economic force.
00:00:35.380 Because Canada and the United States, that would really be something.
00:00:39.540 You get rid of that artificially drawn line, and you take a look at what that looks like,
00:00:45.740 and it would also be much better for national security.
00:00:48.020 And you don't forget, we basically protect Canada.
00:00:50.740 But here's the problem with Canada.
00:00:52.960 So many friends up there.
00:00:55.720 I love the Canadian people. They're great.
00:00:58.600 But we're spending hundreds of billions a year to protect it.
00:01:02.040 The border between Canada and the United States, according to Donald Trump, is an artificially drawn line.
00:01:09.220 It'll be better for national security, he says.
00:01:11.820 He also, at this press conference today, reaffirmed his position that Canada should become the 51st state.
00:01:17.880 No, no right. No, no, no right.
00:01:20.760 But why are we supporting a country, 200 billion plus a year, our military is at their disposal, all of these other things.
00:01:32.040 They should be a state.
00:01:33.380 That's why I told Trudeau when he came down, I said, what would happen if we didn't do it?
00:01:37.460 He said Canada would dissolve.
00:01:39.800 Canada wouldn't be able to function.
00:01:41.560 All of this follows yesterday's post on Truth Social regarding Justin Trudeau's resignation announcement, in which Donald Trump said the following.
00:01:53.000 Many people in Canada love being the 51st state.
00:01:57.400 The U.S. can no longer suffer the massive trade deficits and subsidies that Canada needs to stay afloat.
00:02:03.640 Justin Trudeau knew this and resigned.
00:02:06.060 If Canada merged with the U.S., there would be no tariffs, taxes would go way down,
00:02:10.720 and they would be totally secure from the threat of the Russian and Chinese ships that are constantly surrounding them.
00:02:16.680 Together, what a great nation it would be.
00:02:18.400 In response to Pierre Polyev's comments on Canadian sovereignty and stating that Canada would never become a U.S. state,
00:02:27.480 Donald Trump said of Pierre Polyev,
00:02:30.100 maybe he won't win, but maybe he will.
00:02:32.560 Listen, I don't care what he says.
00:02:34.740 All of those posts that we all dismissed as jokes on Truth Social, they're not jokes anymore.
00:02:40.900 This is serious now.
00:02:41.860 For the first time since the administrations of Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant,
00:02:48.200 will the Canadian government have to contend with the fact that the occupants of the White House
00:02:52.580 are believers in the manifest destiny?
00:02:55.140 All of this comes at a time when Justin Trudeau has exited stage left,
00:03:00.200 when he has made himself a lame duck prime minister with a lame duck minority government,
00:03:04.900 a cabinet focused on trying to appoint a new leader and not on advancing the interests of the Canadian people
00:03:12.420 when we're dealing with a man like Donald Trump about to take the White House again.
00:03:16.480 Justin Trudeau has decided to abandon his post at the most critical time perhaps in his premiership of Canada.
00:03:22.240 A 25% tariff on all Canadian products entering the United States would cripple this country.
00:03:27.960 Tens of thousands of Canadians would be without a job.
00:03:30.420 Our country would grind to a halt.
00:03:31.880 Over the next three months, the Canadian government will be more concerned about who wins a liberal leadership race,
00:03:38.240 who becomes appointed as a sacrificial lamb to end up taking a decisive loss to the Conservative Party
00:03:45.320 and not on steering the Canadian government in the right path before handing it over to a Conservative government.
00:03:51.760 So what exactly happened to that whole Team Canada approach?
00:03:54.600 It appears that the only person willing to stand up for Canada and actually try to hit back
00:03:59.000 on behalf of the Canadian people is Doug Ford, the Premier of Ontario.
00:04:03.200 Danielle Smith in Alberta appears to want to play it soft and take it easy with the man
00:04:07.400 who just threatened to use economic force to annex our country.
00:04:10.640 Some of these statements today by the incoming U.S. President deserve serious diplomatic responses.
00:04:17.460 And most importantly, these statements deserve a serious response from the Prime Minister.
00:04:22.980 Oh, and by the way, all of this is to say nothing at all over the other statements Donald Trump made today.
00:04:29.260 In fact, Donald Trump has not ruled out using military force to annex Greenland.
00:04:34.980 As you try to get control of these areas, you are not going to use military or economic coercion.
00:04:43.900 No.
00:04:44.120 And can you tell us a little bit about what your plan is?
00:04:47.980 Are you going to negotiate a new treaty?
00:04:50.160 Are you going to ask the Canadians to hold a vote?
00:04:53.660 What what is the strategy?
00:04:55.060 I can't assure you you're talking about Panama and Greenland.
00:04:58.580 No, I can't assure you on either of those two.
00:05:00.660 But I can say this.
00:05:03.200 We need them for economic security.
00:05:06.240 The Panama Canal was built for our military.
00:05:10.120 I'm not going to commit to that now.
00:05:11.920 It might it might be that you'll have to do something.
00:05:15.140 Look, the Panama Canal is vital to our country.
00:05:19.400 It's being operated by China.
00:05:21.740 China.
00:05:22.600 The same day that his eldest son and members of his team landed in nuke Greenland.
00:05:27.700 And I've been spending the day talking about how they're going to make Greenland great again and how they're going to make Greenland part of the United States.
00:05:35.080 In fact, Donald Trump said as much at his press conference.
00:05:38.240 Well, we need Greenland for national security purposes.
00:05:41.700 I've been told that for a long time, long before I even ran.
00:05:45.100 I mean, people have been talking about it for a long time.
00:05:47.640 You have approximately 45,000 people there.
00:05:51.120 People really don't even know if Denmark has any legal right to it.
00:05:55.920 But if they do, they should give it up because we need it for national security.
00:05:59.660 That's for the free world.
00:06:00.740 I'm talking about protecting the free world.
00:06:02.960 You look at you don't even need binoculars.
00:06:05.780 You look outside.
00:06:06.920 You have China ships all over the place.
00:06:10.300 You have Russian ships all over the place.
00:06:13.080 We're not letting that happen.
00:06:15.140 We're not letting it happen.
00:06:16.260 And if Denmark wants to get to a conclusion, but nobody knows if they even have any right title or interest, the people are going to probably vote for independence or to come into the United States.
00:06:28.020 But if they did, if they did do that, then I would tariff Denmark at a very high level.
00:06:32.820 He is threatening to sanction and tariff Denmark if they aren't going to give up Greenland to the United States.
00:06:41.040 I hate to say it, but the annexation through military force of Greenland by the United States should be a red line for the Canadian government.
00:06:48.760 The U.S. government does not recognize Canada's rightful territorial claims to the Northwest Passage, internal Canadian waterways, which the United States views as an international strait.
00:07:00.340 If the United States acquires Greenland, annexes Greenland from Denmark, they will be able to blockade the Northwest Passage.
00:07:07.940 Now, if Donald Trump is just simply bluffing on all of this, none of that actually matters.
00:07:13.220 What's required right now is for someone with authority in this country to stand up on behalf of our country and to start pushing back on this nonsense.
00:07:23.660 I like some of Donald Trump's policies.
00:07:26.020 I think that he's extremely entertaining.
00:07:27.920 It's been fascinating to watch from afar as a non-American.
00:07:32.520 But this joke has gone too far.
00:07:34.660 Using military force to annex Greenland and the Panama Canal and using economic force to annex Canada is a step too far.
00:07:45.880 The Canadian people are not being served right now by a prime minister playing political games.
00:07:49.920 Wasting his time and the Canadian people's time over the next three months until they can find a suitable leader to challenge Pierre Paulyon.
00:07:58.320 If the prime minister wants to bow out, as he has announced, the country should have an election right now.
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00:08:11.380 We'll be right back.