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I'm joined by Jagmeet Singh, member of the House of Commons and leader of the NDP in the House of Commons. We've got a lot going on in Canada. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau from the Liberal Party just announced his resignation. His government was held together by an alliance, tenuous one, with the NDP. Mr. Singh, you had called for his resignation a few weeks later. He did indeed resign.
First and foremost, I want to welcome you to the Midas Touch Network. We had some other NDP members on, but welcome. Thank you so much. I'm honored and excited to be here. Thanks so much. You know, when Donald Trump was elected and he first started attacking Canada, there was a lot of confusion, I think, within Canada about how to respond. but not from you.
You immediately responded right away and said, you will not bully us. And after that, I thought it gave others the confidence because you're seeing it now with a lot of other politicians out there in Canada who are saying that. But Donald Trump has been relentless. Just yesterday, he made the following post as well. Once again, referring to Canada as the 51st state.
And he said that Canadians would love for Canada to be the 51st state and that this is something that they want. What a great nation it would be essentially if the United States conquers Canada. I want to get your response to that for those who don't know you, too. You got a background in jujitsu. You went to law school. You got it.
You got a great story that we'll get into a little bit later as well. But one standing up to Trump in the first place, but to your overall reaction to this barrage of threats from the United States, from Trump specifically, not all of us against Canada.
Well, I would say first off, Donald Trump is acting more like an internet troll than a president of the United States. I don't think that's the way you act as a president. And it's certainly not the way you interact with other countries. But as I mentioned, I've dealt with bullies throughout my life. And I know what it's like.
Even if you're the smaller guy, even if you're outnumbered, you got to make it not worth the bullies while bullies only understand strength. They only understand strength and pain. So you have to make sure you're standing up and showing that if you want to take that decision to fight with us, to pick a fight with us, it's going to hurt you too.
And so I want to issue a challenge actually on your show today. For anyone that's running for prime minister, I've committed that Canada would respond with retaliatory tariffs. If Trump imposes tariffs on Canada, we should respond with tariffs. That's how you respond to a bully. You got to respond with strength.
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