
Freeland to launch Liberal leadership bid with “counterpunch” to Trump tariffs
Former deputy prime minister and finance minister Chrystia Freeland has officially announced that she will launch her campaign to become Canada’s next Prime Minister on the eve of the inauguration of President Donald Trump.
Freeland scrubbed her Instagram page on Friday, leaving only two posts, one in English and one in French, announcing that she would be running for Liberal party leadership.
“I’m running to fight for Canada,” reads the post shared to multiple social media sites.
Official launch Sunday. pic.twitter.com/4Uq3MHQsib
— Chrystia Freeland (@cafreeland) January 17, 2025
Just hours before, Freeland shared an OP-ed she wrote, published in the Toronto Star, focusing heavily on the US-Canada relationship and the history of Canada fighting for its sovereignty.
“At a time when President Donald Trump is threatening our country, it’s time to stand up for Canada. We are a country by choice,” she said in the opinion piece. “Canada exists because generations of Canadians have chosen to stand for Canada, to build Canada and to fight for Canada.”
She spoke about the Confederation of Canada beginning as a response to threats of U.S. expansion fueled by the idea of manifest destiny. She related the history of fighting for sovereignty to the response she would take to address Trump’s recent threats to use economic coercion and merge Canada and the U.S.
Trump initially threatened 25% tariffs on Canadian imports until it secured its borders against illegal immigration and drug smuggling. Still, his rhetoric evolved after weeks of calling Canada the 51st state to include threats of economic force to annex Canada.
“President Donald Trump thinks tariff is the most beautiful word in the dictionary. He has spoken about redrawing borders — and has threatened economic coercion to do so,” she said in the Toronto Star Op-Ed.
“While it may be tempting to turn the other cheek, we must take President Trump at his word. Hope is not a strategy, and capitulation is not an option,” she said. “Now is the time for us to be strong, united and smart.”
She vowed to match Trump’s tariffs “dollar for dollar.”
Hahaha… this nails on a chalkboard voiced “Mr. Speaker” twit is now trying to tell Canadians that she is an intellectual equal to Trump? She (the ‘it’s not my fault’ Finance Minister) who waited until the last possible moment to jump from behind the wheel of her own budget van as it was literally hurtling over the cliff! She had to have known months in advance (as it had been for years previously) of the horrible state of Canada’s finances yet she waited until now? With this announcement she has to believe that Canadians are as stupid as she is.
There’s more. No sense of personal responsibility. No conscience. No humiliation. No shame. No remorse.
A Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland. The very last thing Canada needs. Not today. Not tomorrow. Not ever.
“At a time when President Donald Trump is threatening our country”
VDH nails it. It’s not a threat from an enemy (as the left and the media would love Canadians to believe) it’s a warning from a friend. All Trump is doing is ‘potty training’ the world and that includes perhaps the biggest baby of all, Canada. The free ride is ending at noon tomorrow. If we know what’s good for us we’ll throw away the Depends and pull up the big boy pants. It’s long overdue for Canada to say what we mean and mean what we say. “Stand on guard, O Canada, We stand on guard for thee”. Either we do or we don’t. Pretend time is over. To our politicians. You’re either with us or against us. Canadians know what team the LPC is on and they’re about to get obliterated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sc4BpN7mJxg