Canadian ambassador to U.S.: Canadians 'perplexed' and 'confused' by Trump's tariffs
Canada’s ambassador to the U.S., Kirsten Hillman, said on Sunday that Canadians are “perplexed” and “confused” by tariffs enacted by President Trump.
“Canadians are perplexed, I think disappointed,” Hillman told ABC News’s George Stephanopoulos. “We view ourselves as your — your neighbor, your closest friend, your ally, you know, a country whose — whose citizens have fought and died with you around the world, in defense of values that we share, who [have] come to the aid of the Los Angeles fires most recently."
"And I think they are really perplexed by this move. So I don't think anybody will need to tell Canadians what to do, I [think] that they will make their decisions on their own."
“You say perplexed. Do Canadians feel betrayed?” Stephanopoulos asked Hillman.
“I think … I think they're confused,’” Hillman responded.
On Sunday, the president on Truth Social defended his choice to impose sweeping tariffs on his country's top three trading partners.
“The ‘Tariff Lobby,’ headed by the Globalist, and always wrong, Wall Street Journal, is working hard to justify Countries like Canada, Mexico, China, and too many others to name, continue the decades long RIPOFF OF AMERICA, both with regard to TRADE, CRIME, AND POISONOUS DRUGS that are allowed to so freely flow into AMERICA,” Trump said on social media.
If companies made their products in the U.S., the president claimed, tariffs would be nonexistent.
“This will be the Golden Age of America!” Trump continued. “Will there be some pain? Yes, maybe (and maybe not!). But we will make America great again, and it will all be worth the price that must be paid."
The Hill has reached out to the White House for comment.
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