Ralph Goodale
Appearances
Global News Podcast
Ukraine: 'Moscow bombs boarding school'
It's obviously not going to be helpful. We are doing our very best to persuade the Americans to a more common sense position. The consequences will be negative for both countries. This will impose costs on the United States. This will damage Canadian or American consumers and producers as well.
Global News Podcast
Ukraine: 'Moscow bombs boarding school'
We will want our response to send a very clear message. We will want it to hit people. sensitive areas in the United States.
Global News Podcast
Ukraine: 'Moscow bombs boarding school'
Quite frankly, so far, both in terms of the candidates that are running for the leadership of the Liberal Party and the leaders of other political parties and other levels of government in Canada, at the provincial level, for example, what's been accomplished so far is a huge amount of Canadian unity, Canadians standing shoulder to shoulder with each other and saying this is simply unacceptable, in addition to being wrong in terms of how one neighbour treats another.
Global News Podcast
Ukraine: 'Moscow bombs boarding school'
It's also foolish economics because it will impose costs on the United States. There is this notion that somehow this brings revenue into the United States. In fact, it's Americans who will pay the American tariffs. So it's, in fact, a tax on themselves. And in that sense, it is very wrongheaded and counterproductive. And we will push back.