Toronto Star Article Rating

Justin Trudeau must tell Donald Trump he will defend Canada's interests and retaliate if needed

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    10% Center

  • Reliability

    20% ReliablePoor

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -51% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : He is right to forge a united Team Canada approach as he did in 2017-18 in the first time of Trump and that team must continue to work the edges, bringing our case to Republicans in the Senate and the U.S. House, reminding U.S. governors, mayors, business and union leaders of the price of such action on both sides of the border.
46% : According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), border patrol officers had 23,721 "encounters" with people illegally crossing the Canadian border last year.
43% : Ontario's Doug Ford, himself gearing up for re-election, somehow felt that Trump was a family member who "stabbed him right in the heart," and Alberta's Danielle Smith seems prepared to march to Trump's drum.
38% : If they remain unconvinced, they should brace themselves for sticker shock at the gas pumps if Trump slaps a 25 per cent tariff on Canadian oil and gas.
37% : But we must prepare for the fact that Trump, in a second term surrounded by loyalists instead of those who would restrain his more radical proposals, might actually choose to do this.
37% : But there are significant differences from the first time Trudeau wrestled with Trump.
35% : Trump has tied the tariff threat to border security and the flow of fentanyl across his southern and northern borders but to somehow cast Mexico and Canada as equal actors in these spheres is ludicrous.
30% : Sure, Trump will hear from U.S. business interests and states about the risks of such a move.
30% : He can tell Trump, as his government has been saying, that we recognize the need to ramp up defence spending in a volatile world, because it is the price of membership in NATO.
18% : A threatened 25 per cent tariff on Canadian and Mexican exports to the United States, as Trump proposed in a social media message, would strike a huge blow to the Canadian economy, costing thousands of jobs and likely pushing us into recession.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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