Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will try to strengthen Canada’s trade and security ties over the next five days with European allies also facing threats from U.S. President Donald Trump over their economy and sovereignty.
Trudeau is heading to Paris and Brussels starting Saturday — just days after Trump agreed to pause tariffs on Canada until March 4.
Roland Paris, a former adviser to Trudeau, says it’s important for Canada and the European Union (EU) to share notes about how to deal with Trump during this time of great uncertainty and co-ordinate if he does unleash punishing tariffs against them.
Definitely not perfect but just the fact he’s giving all this effort while on the way out shows you his character, so yeah even if I don’t agree with him on many things I at least respect him as a politician (as much as I can respect any politician especially when they don’t have my views at all).
I feel similar about Mark Rutte, ex prime minister of the Netherlands and now secretary general of NATO, the guy is a cold ass conservative but god damn it’s incomparable with the likes of trump.