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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Donald Trump threatens to use economic force to annex Canada. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces his resignation from office and calls for Canada to become the 51st state of the United States. Canadian PM Justin Trudeau resigns at the most critical moment in his political career.

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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.