Timmins New Democratic MP Charlie Angus is on his own personal crusade against U.S. tariffs and says he’s gaining international support.
Angus says Donald Trump blinked on Monday, giving tariffs a 30-day rest before implementation. Two days before, the U.S. president said the tariffs would stay on, and that riled Canadians.
“Donald Trump poked the polar bear,” he remarks.
Canadians, says Angus, when Trump threatened our nationhood, responded in a big way.
And faced with $125-billion in retaliatory tariffs, the Kentucky governor called Trump about whisky, as did the automakers, faced with a shutdown within a week. Trump responded by claiming victory.
“We have this border deal which Canada had in place back in December,” Angus observes. “He said we’ve got a fentanyl czar, whatever that is. But what we saw was a Trump backdown.”
The Charlie Angus Resistance Network, says its namesake, isn’t because he’s doing it as a New Democrat. He says it comes out of him realizing on the day after Donald Trump was elected that we are in uncharted territory.
“I’m just the MP from Northern Ontario, but I started speaking up, and for some reason, people have been reaching out from across Canada first, then across the United States, now people across the world.”
Angus says Canada is seen as a place where people are nice but push us around and we go over the boards and you lose your teeth.
Here is audio of Angus’s statement and engaging with reporters:
