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'Elbows Up!': Canada MP Charlie Angus Torches Trump Over Threats
03 Mar 2025
MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas interviews Canadian MP Charlie Angus who directs a powerful message to Trump and his regime. Visit MeidasPlus.com for more exclusive MeidasTouch content. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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I'm joined by Canadian Member of Parliament Charlie Angus. Since we last spoke, Donald Trump says these tariffs are going to happen. Charlie, they're supposed to happen on Tuesday, although now you've got people in the Trump administration saying, well, it's possible that if Canada does this or that, what's going on? What's the vibe in Canada right now, Mr. Angus?
I think right now, after the horrific abuse that Donald Trump and J.D. Vance subjected a genuine war hero, President Zelensky, to in the White House while having some troll from the Russian media there to watch it. Canadians are really sickened in their stomach. I mean, we've been ready for a fight.
We've been knowing that this guy's going to come and try and push us around and we've been getting ready for it. But we saw that. We saw that at the same time that Pete Navarro, the crackpot economic guru that Donald Trump's been listening to, saying that they were going to redraw our borders. That's an act of war.
So suddenly this fight that we're seeing in Canada is feeling very different right now. And it's feeling like we are going to a different place. And it's really made Canadians much more determined. So the Trump. But tariffs. Yeah, maybe they're coming. Maybe they're not. Maybe he's shouting. You know, this whole thing we've been told he needs to look like he's got a victory.
He's got to win something. It's like it's like those relatives that you have who are like gambling addicts who like basically sold the house and they come back and they want a thousand bucks and they said they won something. Trump is crazy. is selling America's reputation. He's selling their relations. He's selling out thousands of jobs with this economic uncertainty.
And Canadians are just hunkering down. Bring it on, Donald. Whatever you're going to do, you're going to do. We're going to do what we're going to do. And it ain't going to be pretty.
Charlie, paint the picture. If these tariffs were to be implemented, what are you hearing on the ground in terms of factories closing, businesses shutting down? What kind of economic devastation do you anticipate would be inflicted on America? I mean, I know that Canada is prepared, has been preparing. This is part of the national discourse there because of the threats.
In America, I don't think people are taking it as seriously. So what do you think will happen?
Well, this is a really important point because It's going to hurt us. I mean, we're an integrated market. America's number one export market is Canada. And Canada's number one export market is the United States. It makes sense. We're trading nations. So we understand that we're going to be hurt.
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