In a blunt news conference during his final days in office, Trudeau said that Canada would plaster retaliatory tariffs on more than $100 billion of American goods in response to Trump's 25% tariffs. “Today the United States launched a trade war against Canada,

Trudeau also called out Trump for appeasing Russian President Vladimir Putin while launching a trade war against Canada.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has called U.S. President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs “very dumb.” Trudeau also called out Trump for appeasing Russian President Vladimir Putin while launching a trade war against Canada.

In a pointed barb, Trudeau said the US was starting a trade war with its closest allies at the same as it was “appeasing Vladimir Putin, a lying, murderous dictator”.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called American tariffs "very dumb" and said that U.S. President Donald Trump is appeasing Russia while launching a trade war against Canada.

The prime minister's intelligence and security adviser says it's time for Canada to be less dependent on its partners, comments that come a day after the U.S. launched a trade war against its northern neighbour.

Experts say the US president likes to brag about his ties with the Kremlin chief because he 'sees Putin as almost an aspirational figure' In the fiery clash between Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky,

Americans would never accept another nation threatening our country the way Trump insists on doing with Canada

Mike Pompeo stressed that Russia did not take an inch of Ukrainian land during Trump's first administration, calling it the "best evidence" that the US President was never soft on Putin, even during his first term in office.

Putin’s aide has mocked Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s plan to send troops to Ukraine, drawing a comparison to former US President Donald Trump’s past remarks about Canada. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova ridiculed Trudeau’s decision,

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau looked directly into television cameras to call out President Donald Trump for his 25 percent tariffs against his country as a “very dumb thing to do” as he announced retaliatory tariffs on $155 billion of American goods.