Before parliamentary elections
Trump puts pressure on Canada: “I’m really not joking”
04/27/2025 – 10:40 a.m.Reading time: 4 min.
Canada will choose a new parliament on Monday. The election campaign takes place in the middle of threats of the neighbor USA. Meanwhile, Donald Trump doesn’t let go.
In the middle of diplomatically restless times, Canada chooses a new parliament on Monday. The country has been exposed to the annexation fantasies of the neighbor USA for months. US President Donald Trump repeatedly pretended to incorporate Canada to the United States as 51st state. Trump also does not take into account the upcoming elections.
In an interview published last Friday with the “Time” magazine, Trump supported his claims. The journalists asked the Republican if he would be fun. Trump said no. “I’m really not joking,” said Trump. The US President claimed that the United States would lose between 200 and 250 billion US dollars through Canada’s support.
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He confronted the former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, whom Trump describes as “governor”. Trudeau was unable to explain to him why this was appropriate, says Trump. The liberal Trudeau announced its resignation in January and then implemented it in March.
“We take care of your military. We take care of every aspect of your life,” continued the US President. The United States does not need Canada to build cars, but wanted to produce its own vehicles in its own country. “We don’t need your timber. We don’t need your energy. We don’t need anything from Canada.”
“And I say the only way to really work is that Canada becomes a state,” added Trump. He also explained that it would not bother him if he was the president in the history that has enlarged the United States territory.
Other objects of Trump’s geopolitical desire are Greenland and the Panama Canal. “We need Greenland for international security. We have to have it,” said the US President in March. Scharf contradiction comes from Greenland and Denmark.
These and other statements from Trump to Canada brought a new dynamic into the ongoing election campaign. On Wednesday he had promised to increase the tariffs on vehicles from Canada. The reigning, liberal prime minister Mark Carney took the ball at an election campaign event: “We decide what happens here. Yesterday’s day was further evidence that the old relationship with the USA was over.” The former central banker has announced that it will issue billions in order to reduce the country’s dependence on the USA. 75 percent of all Canadian exports go to the neighboring country.
A head-to-head race is emerging in the parliamentary elections in Canada on Monday. With their top candidate Carney, the ruling liberals are narrowly ahead with 42.9 percent, closely followed by the conservatives around Party leader Pierre Poilievre with 39.3 percent, as can be seen from a recent survey by Nanos Research for “CTV News” and “The Globe and Mail”. The new Democratic Party is in third place with 7.2 percent. This could make the Liberals the government for the fourth time in a row. However, Carney would only come to a minority of the seats and would be dependent on cooperation with smaller parties.
In the middle of the conflict with the big neighbor USA, Carney had declared new elections for April 28th in March. He could have taken the time until mid -October. However, his liberal party benefits from her resistance to Trump. Carney is just as vehemently against the annexation and customs threats of the US President, as well as predecessor Trudeau, which is well received by many Canadians.
