Christia Freeland, a former Finance Minister of Canada, praised Trump’s tariffs in MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” today, and partially exploded them as “very unreasonable and meaningless.” 。
“These tariffs are really imposed because there is no reason,” Freeland said. “The excuse to be provided is as thin as possible.”
The White House stated that it piled a 25 % tariff on Canadian products and put pressure on the country to slow down the flow of Fentanyl and immigrants into the United States.
Freeland pushed back the premise and said that less than 1 % of Fentanyl, who came to the United States, is moving across the northern border.
In fact, according to the White House fact seats on tariffs, a 43 -pound Fentanyl was seized at the northern border last year. In contrast, the administration, at the same time, seized more than 21,000 pounds on the southern border with Mexico.
“If border security is a problem, this can be resolved in 5 minutes,” said Freeland, a member of the Canadian Congress, who served as the Minister of Finance from August 2020 to December 2024.
Freeland, the successor of Canadian Prime Minister Todoro, states that Canadians have opposed the Trump administration’s tariff program. “Our sovereignty cannot be negotiated,” she said in response to the repetition of the president’s repeated comment that Canada should be the 51st state.
“If we hit us, we would be proud of fighting and the whole country would do it,” she said.
