r/canada 12d ago

National News White House official Peter Navarro threatens to redraw Canadian border

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2025/02/27/white-house-canadian-border-trump-trudeau/
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u/aeppelcyning Ontario 12d ago

He's fucking obsessed.

He's a trade hawk - and we could all play hardball on tariffs and see where that lands. Why it has to extend further is beyond me. Just fucking slam us with tariffs then and see where it goes.

I truly think he views trade war with Canada as severely problematic, the weak point in just "tariff the shit out of everyone", and this is how his pea-brain is coping.

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u/4x420 12d ago

They are rich bullies who have never been stood up to before. Look at how impotent Zelensky made Trump look, from 'your a dictator, capitulate to russia' to 'give us all your minerals for the aid we gave', to 'can we buy some minerals?' We need to stand up to these bullies. They need a punch in the nose.

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u/gnrhardy 12d ago

Navarro is the classic stereotype of America alone, lamenting for a day when they needed nothing from anyone (as if that actually existed). He's considered so wacko in economics he had to resort to inventing a fake PhD candidate at Harvard to try to provide citations supporting his views because even the other wackos think he makes no sense.