Read the transcript of Trudeau’s response to U.S. tariffs on Canada

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has responded to U.S. tariffs connected Canadian goods.

Trudeau spoke to media Saturday aft U.S. President Donald Trump signed an enforcement bid imposing the tariffs.

Trump said successful a connection that helium has implemented a 25 per cent tariff connected imports from some Canada and Mexico, which drops to 10 per cent connected Canadian energy, arsenic good arsenic an further 10 per cent tariff connected imports from China.

Canada has been told the tariffs volition spell into effect connected Tuesday.

Here’s the English transcript of Trudeau’s afloat speech.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau: Good evening. Today, the United States informed america they volition beryllium imposing a 25 per cent tariff connected Canadian exports to the United States and 10 per cent connected Canadian energy, a determination that, should they elite to proceed with, should instrumentality effect connected Tuesday, Feb. 4.

[IN FRENCH]

Tonight, archetypal I privation to talk straight to Americans. Our closest friends and neighbors. This is simply a prime that, yes, volition harm Canadians. But beyond that, it volition person existent consequences for you, the American people.

As I person consistently said, tariffs against Canada volition enactment your jobs astatine risk, perchance shutting down American car assembly plants and different manufacturing facilities.

They volition rise costs for you, including nutrient astatine the market stores and state astatine the pump.

They volition impede your entree to an affordable proviso of captious goods important for U.S. security, specified arsenic nickel, potash, uranium, alloy and aluminum.

They volition interruption the escaped commercialized statement that the president and I, on with our Mexican partner, negotiated and signed a fewer years ago. But it doesn’t person to beryllium this way.

As President John F. Kennedy said galore years ago, geography has made america neighbors. History has made america friends, economics has made america partners and necessity has made america allies.

That rang existent for galore decades anterior to President Kennedy’s clip successful office, and successful the decades since, from the beaches of Normandy to the mountains of the Korean Peninsula, from the fields of Flanders to the streets of Kandahar, we person fought and died alongside you during your darkest hours during the Iranian hostage crisis. Those 444 days, we worked astir the timepiece from our embassy to get your guiltless compatriots home.

During the summertime of 2005, erstwhile Hurricane Katrina ravaged your large metropolis of New Orleans, oregon specified weeks agone erstwhile we sent h2o bombers to tackle the wildfires successful California. During the day, the satellite stood still,  Sept. 11, 2001, erstwhile we provided refuge to stranded passengers and planes. We were ever there, lasting with you, grieving with you. The American people.

Together, we’ve built the astir palmy economic, subject and information concern the satellite has ever seen. A narration that has been the envy of the world.

Yes, we’ve had our differences successful the past, but we’ve ever recovered a mode to get past them. As I’ve said before, if President Trump wants to usher successful a caller aureate property for the United States, the amended way is to spouse with Canada, not to punish us.

Canada has captious minerals, reliable and affordable energy, unchangeable antiauthoritarian institutions, shared values and the earthy resources you need. Canada has the ingredients indispensable to physique a booming and unafraid concern for the North American economy, and we basal astatine the acceptable to enactment together.

Let’s instrumentality a infinitesimal to speech astir our shared border. Our borderline is already harmless and secure, but there’s always, ever much enactment to do. Less than 1 per cent of fentanyl, little than 1 per cent of amerciable crossings into the United States travel from Canada.

But proceeding concerns from some Canadians and Americans, including the American president himself, we’re taking action. We launched a $1.3 cardinal borderline program that is already showing results, due to the fact that we, too, are devastated by the scourge that is fentanyl, a cause that has torn isolated communities and caused truthful overmuch symptom and torment for countless families crossed Canada, conscionable similar successful the United States.

A cause that we excessively privation to spot wiped from the look of this earth. A cause whose traffickers indispensable beryllium punished arsenic neighbors, we indispensable enactment collaboratively to hole this.

Unfortunately, the actions taken contiguous by the White House divided america isolated alternatively of bringing america together.

Tonight, I americium announcing Canada volition beryllium responding to the U.S. commercialized enactment with 25 per cent tariffs against a $155 cardinal worthy of American goods. This volition see contiguous tariffs connected $30 cardinal worthy of goods arsenic of Tuesday, followed by further tariffs connected $125 cardinal worthy of American products successful 21 days clip to let Canadian companies and proviso chains to question to find alternatives.

[IN FRENCH]

Like the American tariffs, our effect volition besides beryllium acold reaching and see mundane items specified arsenic American beer, vino and bourbon, fruits and effect juices, including orangish juice, on with vegetables, perfume, covering and shoes.

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It’ll see large user products similar household appliances, furnishings and sports equipment, and materials similar lumber and plastics, on with much, overmuch more.

And arsenic portion of our response, we are considering with the provinces and territories, respective non-tariff measures, including immoderate relating to captious minerals, vigor procurement and different partnerships.

We volition basal beardown for Canada. We volition basal beardown to guarantee our countries proceed to beryllium the champion neighbors successful the world.

With each that said, I besides privation to talk straight to Canadians successful this moment.

I’m definite galore of you are anxious, but I privation you to cognize we are each successful this together. The Canadian government, Canadian businesses, Canadian organized labor, Canadian civilian society, Canada’s premiers, and tens of millions of Canadians from seashore to seashore to seashore are aligned and united.

This is Team Canada astatine its best.

 Geopolitically, Prime Minister, the 12th connected the unsocial is 30 time is simply a unreserved lone to spot a linear storm.

[IN FRENCH]

And present is besides the clip to take Canada.

[IN FRENCH]

It mightiness mean doing each of these things oregon uncovering your ain mode to basal up for Canada. In this moment, we indispensable propulsion unneurotic due to the fact that we emotion this country. We pridefulness ourselves connected braving the acold during the agelong wintertime months. We don’t similar to bushed our chests, but we’re ever retired determination waving the maple leafage loudly and proudly to observe an Olympic golden medal.

[IN FRENCH]

Canada is location to bountiful resources, breathtaking beauty, and a arrogant radical who’ve travel from each country of the globe to forge a federation with a unsocial individuality worthy embracing and celebrating. We don’t unreal to beryllium perfect, but Canada is the champion state connected earth.

There’s obscurity other that I, successful our 41 cardinal beardown family, would alternatively be.

And we volition get done this situation conscionable arsenic we’ve done countless times earlier together.

Thank you. Merci. Vive le Canada!