Canada’s ambassador in France says that he is against the threat of US President Donald Trump to take over Greenland, and says: “To respect international law, they do not threaten their neighbors by invasion.”
Stéphane Dion, who is also the special representative in Europe and the European Union, says that it is not “normal” to threaten the sovereignty of a country. Trump continues to urge Canada America’s 51st state.
“They know that according to international law, it is not only an enter in a neighbor who violates international law in the United Nations Charter, but is to be threatened,” he said. “So we’re against it.”
Dion spoke in the morning after Trump had threatened aluminum and steel with a tariff of 25 percent on aluminum and steel, which had entered the USA with journalists in the Canadian embassy in Paris in Paris, including the largest supplier: Canada.
Dion said the Canadian government would answer if the Trump government officially makes it in writing by an executive regulation. Trudeau will give a speech on Monday at the summit of artificial intelligence in Paris, where US Vice President JD Vance is expected together with other world leaders.
Stéphane Dion, Canada’s Ambassador to France, says, while Canada and Mexico were first targeted by US tariffs, the Europeans know that they are also at risk.
Trump escalates his rhetoric against Canada.
The US President said yesterday that Canada was not a sustainable country without the United States and warned that Canada should no longer depend on Washington for military protection.
“You don’t pay much for the military, and the reason why you don’t pay a lot, assume that we will protect you,” said Trump. “This is not an assumption that you can make because why do we protect another country?”
Trump also repeated his wish to become Canada for a 51st state.
“If Canada is not a sustainable country, they show me a viable country,” said Dion. “It is one of the best countries in the world.”
Dion dismissed Trump’s comments and said the USA also needed Canada for its defense.
“If you don’t defend Canada, you cannot have an effective defense for the United States,” said Dion in response to a question from CBC News. “We are all together, we are all together in Ukraine. That’s why NATO is so important, so the key and we have to work hard for it.”
When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was in Europe to discuss artificial secret services and strengthen alliances, said US President Donald Trump reporters that he would be 25 percent tariffs for all steel and aluminum that enter the country, including products from Canada and Mexico, announce.
Trudeau did not respond to questions from reporters when he was asked to respond to Trump’s latest comments shortly before midnight in Paris.
Trudeau takes part in a two -day summit of artificial intelligence, which is organized by French President Emmanuel Macron and the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Trudeau will go to Brussels to meet the EU leaders and have a one-on-one interview with general secretary Mark Rutte.
