'Hope is not a plan': Chrystia Freeland positions herself as a tough opponent to Donald Trump as Canada continues to grapple with tariff threats

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : Freeland, however, said the time has passed for trying to make nice with Trump.
54% : "The Star has reported the federal government is contemplating, in addition to using counter-tariffs, the use of nontariff measures, including directing defence procurement spending somewhere other than the United States, putting export tariffs on, or restricting the supply of Canadian energy shipments to the U.S., but it is holding its cards close.
52% : The federal Liberals say the trade deficit "reflects strong U.S. household spending and high demand for energy imports.
50% : Other measures she proposed include a "Buy Canadian" strategy: halting federal government purchases of any goods from U.S. companies except in cases involving national security, barring U.S. companies from bidding on federal procurement contracts (excluding defence), and restricting American companies or their branches from any project funded by the federal government, including the TTC's planned subway car expansion.
47% : Freeland called on the Trudeau government to publish a detailed, dollar-for-dollar retaliation list of American imports worth up to $200 billion -- more than the $150 billion that Trudeau has told premiers he has at the ready, in order to exert maximum pressure on Trump.
39% : "And we're not even talking about tariffs yet, but that'll happen on Feb. 1," Trump added.
37% : One of two leading contenders in a field of six for the Liberal leadership and the prime minister's job, Freeland is positioning herself as the toughest opponent to Trump, and released a policy paper Monday urging Ottawa to take a more publicly aggressive stand.
34% : "I don't want to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on supporting a country unless that country is a state," Trump said.
33% : Trump again promised Saturday to slap tariffs on imports from this country, cranking up his anti-Canada rhetoric, inflating trade deficit numbers as a so-called $250-billion "subsidy," and saying that Canada "doesn't really exist" without the U.S."Without our subsidy, Canada, you know, doesn't exist really," he said aboard Air Force One en route to Miami.
33% : Trump is "using tariffs as a way to put pressure on countries," said Joly.
29% : ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOWIn a Radio-Canada interview on the Sunday night talk show Tout le monde en parle, Freeland said Trump had in the past nicknamed her "the killer," and that he "does not respect weakness," adding "capitulation" is not a negotiating strategy with him.
24% : Freeland said she would immediately convene a summit of leaders of countries that Trump is threatening with either tariffs or takeover: Mexico, Denmark, Panama, and the President of the European Union.
23% : "Donald Trump is using uncertainty to unsettle Canadians.
23% : "ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOWBut Trump continues to pitch it as a loss for the U.S., saying "it's not fair to us.""And they (Canada) do about almost 90 per cent of their business with the United States, whereas with us, it's the opposite.

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