Justin Trudeau congratulates Donald Trump on his victory | US elections 2024

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau congratulated Donald Trump on his “decisive” re-election as President of the United States for a second term. “The world has become even more difficult and more complex than it was four years ago and I know there is a lot of work for us to do,” he added in the press scrum. .

As a government, we have been preparing for this possibility for a long time and we are ready. We will start our approach again [avec notre] Team Canada. We are going to start engaging again with Donald’s team to ensure that we are building a better world for Canadians, for Americans and for everyone across the planet.

According to our sources, the two men have not yet spoken and the Canadian government did not expect such a clear victory for Mr. Trump and the Republicans. Of big thoughts will prevail, we are told.

In an official written statement, Mr. Trudeau also offered his congratulations, on behalf of the Government of Canada, to the Senator JD Vance for his election as Vice President of the United States.

On the social network friendship between Canada and the United States, a relationship which, according to him, the envy of the world.

I know that President Trump and I will work together to bring greater opportunity, prosperity, and security to the citizens of both our countries.

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Canada and the United States enjoy the most successful partnership in the world. We are neighbors and friends, united by a common history and values ​​as well as by strong ties between our populations. We are each other’s main trading partners and our economies are closely linkedhe also wrote.

The Canadian Prime Minister also emphasized the economic aspect of the bilateral relationship in his official written statement, highlighting the renegotiation successfully of the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA).

In 2023, trade between Canada and the United States totaled more than $1.3 trillion, meaning more than $3.5 billion worth of goods and services crossed the border. Canadian-American every day that yeardeclared Mr. Trudeau.

Finally, he highlighted the work carried out by Team Canada since 2015which according to him made it possible to increase bilateral trade […] more than 400 billion dollars.

We stand ready to work with President-elect Trump and his administration on various issues, including trade and investment and peace and security on the continent.

For her part, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada, Mélanie Joly, highlighted the victory of the Republican candidate as president-elect on social networks.

Canada and the United States are friends, neighbors and allies, deeply connected by our economies and our peopleshe wrote on X. Together, we will focus on investment, growth, peace and security around the world.

Its objective of the coming days and weeks will be further develop these relationships, because we know how important it is in diplomacy, and in particular with the president’s teamshe added in the press scrum.

Echoing Justin Trudeau’s comments, she also indicated that the world situation was different today than when Mr. Trump was last in the Oval Office. On the situation in Ukraine, she said that kyiv fought for his freedom, but also for ours.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs also reiterated the promise to achieve the target ofI’LL TAKE of 2% of GDP in matters of defense, an important threshold for Mr. Trump.

In the end, we know very well that the United States is our best friends and our neighbor.

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Chrystia Freeland, wanted to reassure Canadians, after congratulating Mr. Trump and his team for their historic victory.

Here at home in Canada, and in our ties to the United States and the world, all will be welldeclared Ms. Freeland in a press scrum in the corridor of Parliament.

Opposition parties highlight Republican victory

Congratulations to Donald J. Trump on his election as 47^e President of the United States, wrote Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre on X. The United States is our best friend and most important trading partner, and I will work with the President for the good of both countries.

His message then took a partisan turn by asserting that yesterday’s results confirm that we must cancel Trudeau’s planparticularly in connection with the carbon tax and the increase in other taxes, qui would push hundreds of thousands of additional jobs south, where President Trump will cut taxes even further.

The leader of the Bloc Québécois, Yves-François Blanchet declared on the social network it is customary to approach the mandate of a new head of state with optimistic congratulations.

The President-elect of the United States was able to read the hearts of many citizens and offer them the words that rallied them. Let us now know how to collaborate as neighbors and friends designated by history, in particular on the issues of migration, trade, climate and security.wrote the Bloc leader.

Turmoil to be expected on the economic level

If Donald Trump is elected, buckle up! said former United States Ambassador to Canada and pro-Trump Republican, Kelly Craft, in an exclusive interview with - a few days before the election. Canada and the entire world must prepare. President Trump will make sure to protect our manufacturing industry from foreign influence. This is a matter of national security.

Although both presidential candidates pushed protectionist policies on the campaign trail, some of Mr. Trump’s promises could have significant consequences on the north side of the border, if they come to fruition.

Donald Trump notably proposed imposing tariffs of 10% to 20% on all imports entering the United States and 60% on imports from China.

Supply management, especially in agriculture, risks becoming a bone of contention in the bilateral relationship.

There are ongoing discussions about supply management. So I think that until this problem is resolved, this subject will continue to be part of the discussions between Canada and the United Statessaid the American ambassador to Canada, David Cohen, in an interview Tuesday with -.

From the negotiation of theACEthe United States criticized this practice and challenged the Canadian dairy product control system on two occasions through the dispute resolution mechanism provided for in the free trade agreement.

The ambassador said he is hopeful that the two countries will be able to find common ground, but he takes a dim view of the Bloc Québécois’ Bill C-282, which would limit the ability of a future government to increase the tariff quotas applicable to dairy products, poultry or eggs in the renegotiations of theACE, which are planned for two years.

With information from Fannie Olivier, Laurence Martin, Louis Blouin and Christian Noël