Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland speaks at Foreign Policy's Diplomat of the Year awards ceremony in Washington on June 13.
Foreign Policy: Canadian Foreign Minister Sharply Rebukes Trump’s Trade Policy and Worldview
Chrystia Freeland said Trump was putting his thumb on the scales with tariffs.
Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland, in Washington on Wednesday, promised a “dollar-for-dollar response” to President Donald Trump’s trade tariffs and said American businesses and consumers would pay a price for their country’s protectionism.
Her comments, coming just a week after a divisive meeting of the leading industrialized democracies known as the G-7, marked one the sharpest Canadian rebukes of the United States in recent memory.
Freeland described Trump’s plan to slap tariffs on Canada under the pretext of national security as ridiculous and urged the United States to invest in its international alliances.
“The idea that we could impose a national security threat to you is more than absurd, it’s hurtful,” she said at an event hosted by Foreign Policy, where she accepted the news magazine’s Diplomat of the Year award.
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WNU Editor: When Foreign Policy Magazine was bought by the Washington Post in 2008 .... it's quality and content started to go down hill. The owners wanted the Magazine to reflect their political leanings .... and they did a very good job of it, losing long term customers like myself who found their product becoming political rather than analytical. But this pales to what has happened to that institution since the election of President Trump. To put it bluntly .... they have lost their minds .... and doubly so since none of them have been hired by the Trump administration to work in the White House or at the State Department. As for Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland being named Foreign Policy Diplomat of the Year .... my choice would have been Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi. For the past 5 years he has navigated China to be a force to reckon with in international diplomacy. No foreign diplomat even comes close to what Wang Yi has been able to accomplish in the past decade or two. No one.
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Wnu are you kidding yourself? China managed to alienate pretty much every country in Asia, arguably around the globe and becomes more isolated by the month. Much because of their own actions. You're flat out wrong on this one. But. .the Canadian lady only got the price right after she made her comments about Trump on CNN. That's the new stick on the left media. ..insult the president and you get a trophy award, nice job and often book deal.
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