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‘Nobody Is Safe’: Canada Sends World a Warning Against Trump
‘UNJUSTIFIABLE’The country’s minister of foreign affairs shared a blunt message ahead of a G7 meeting with Secretary of State Marco Rubio this week.
OTTAWA — Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly plans to welcome her G7 counterparts to Charlevoix, Quebec, with a warning: “If the U.S. can do this to us, their closest friend, then nobody is safe.”
On the official agenda this week as Canada hosts the G7 foreign ministers: Ukraine, the Middle East, Haiti and Venezuela, but nothing about President Donald Trump’s trade war or sovereignty threats. Yet Joly told reporters in Ottawa on Wednesday that she plans to raise the issue with the European and British members, while advising them that “Canada is the canary in the coal mine."
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will arrive fresh from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, where he was negotiating the terms of a 30-day Russia-Ukraine truce.
Speaking to reporters from Ireland on Wednesday, he pointed out that G7 leaders will have plenty to talk about when they assemble. “It is not a meeting about how we’re going to take over Canada.”
But amid Trump's steep tariffs on his northern neighbor, Joly is not standing by. She plans to meet with Rubio on Thursday morning in an effort to apply “maximum pressure” over the protection of Canada’s sovereignty and way of living.
“We have done nothing to justify Trump’s attacks on our country, on our economy and our identity,” Joly said. “Canada is your best friend, best neighbor and best ally.”
Rubio told reporters his expectation for the G7 is that the U.S. will work in a “constructive way with our allies and friends and partners.”
