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Leading Canadian conservative says Ottawa should remove all tariffs as ‘Liberation Day’ arrives
OTTAWA – As Canadians brace themselves for President Donald Trump’s «Liberation Day» of reciprocal tariffs on Wednesday, one political leader in Canada believes it could spark the start of a new era of Canada-U.S. relations free of cross-border taxes.
Maxime Bernier, who served as foreign affairs minister in former Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative government and now heads the right-wing People’s Party of Canada (PPC), told Fox News Digital in an interview from Halifax that it is «absolutely» the time for Canada to remove all tariffs against the U.S.
He said the 25% duties the Canadian government, under then-Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, imposed on the U.S. in early February to counter Trump’s 25% tariffs against Canada «won’t hurt the Americans – it is hurting Canadians.»
New Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said in a statement following his March 28 call with the president – the first contact between both leaders since Carney was elected Liberal leader by his party nearly three weeks before – that Canada would implement retaliatory tariffs in response to Wednesday’s U.S. «trade actions.»
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President Donald Trump, left, and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. (Getty Images)
The PPC leader said that Trump should be told that «the real reciprocal response» to tariffs is «zero on our side, zero on your side.»
Bernier said that instead, Carney and his main rival, Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre, are being «fake patriots using a dollar-for-dollar trade war against Trump» and telling Canadians: «That’s the best thing to do.»
«We cannot impose counter-tariffs,» said Bernier, who also served as industry minister in the Harper government.
«The Americans are 10 times bigger than us. We won’t win a trade war,» he said, underscoring that retaliation will lead to a recession in Canada.
Former Canadian Conservative politician Tony Clement, who served alongside Bernier in Harper’s Cabinet, told Fox News Digital that «from an economic point of view,» removing Canadian tariffs «makes a lot of sense» and «may come to that at some point, but the public isn’t there right now.»
«From a point of view of the emotional wounds of Canadians created by Trump and his annexation talk and tariffs, I’m not sure that a political voice would survive if it went down that public-policy route,» said Clement, a former Canadian industry minister in the Harper government.
Maxime Bernier, leader of the People’s Party of Canada, meets with his supporters at an election rally in Borden Park on Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. (Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
«The mood of the people is outrage. I’ve never seen people in Canada this incandescently mad at the United States,» he said, who is campaigning in the Toronto area for Poilievre’s Conservative Party ahead of the April 28 general election. «There is complete distrust of whatever Trump says because it can change within 24 hours.»
He said that both Poilievre and Carney have highlighted the importance of removing «the specter of tariffs for a long period of time – if you can trust Trump to be a bona fide negotiator.»
Eliminating Canadian tariffs, without a quid pro quo from Trump, could «show weakness to a bully,» added Clement, who, prior to entering federal politics in 2006, served as a Cabinet minister in former Ontario Premier Mike Harris’ Progressive Conservative government.
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Canadians hold an «Elbows Up» protest against U.S. tariffs and other policies by U.S. President Donald Trump, at Nathan Phillips Square in Toronto on March 22, 2025. (REUTERS/Carlos Osorio)
In the statement released following his recent conversation with Trump, Carney said that both leaders «agreed to begin comprehensive negotiations about a new economic and security relationship immediately following the election.»
Conservative strategist Yaroslav Baran, who served as communications chief for Harper’s successful Conservative 2004 leadership campaign, and director of war room communications for the Harper-led Tories during the 2004, 2006 and 2008 federal election campaigns, told Fox News Digital that under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), «trade in goods and services ought to be tariff-free» between Canada and the U.S., excluding carveouts on the Canadian side for dairy, eggs, poultry and softwood lumber.
However, Baran added that he «can’t see the removal of all Canadian tariffs on U.S. products as long as the U.S. has tariffs on Canadian products.»
Vehicles in line to cross into the United States at the Canada-U.S. border in St-Bernard-de-Lacolle, Quebec, Canada, on Thursday, March 6, 2025. President Donald Trump exempted Canadian goods covered by the USMCA from his 25% tariffs, offering major reprieves to the U.S.’ two largest trading partners. (Graham Hughes/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Bernier acknowledged that while Trump’s tariffs will hurt Canadian exporters to the U.S., «the solution is to have a more productive economy with real free-market reforms» in Canada through such measures as lowering corporate taxes, promoting internal trade and fostering growth in the country’s oil and gas industry, all of which are featured in the PPC’s election platform that includes the establishment of a «Department of Government Downsizing» to abolish «ideologically motivated programs that promote wokeism,» not unlike the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency.
The PPC leader also said that Canada should be willing to «put everything on the table» under the USMCA «right now» and before the trilateral trade deal is scheduled for a joint review next year.
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According to Bernier, that should include ending the «cartel» of supply management that sets quotas and prices, and protects Canada’s dairy, poultry and eggs sectors from foreign competition, which he described as «a communist system» that finds Canadians paying twice the price of those agricultural products than Americans do in the U.S., and which also imposes duties – ranging from 150% to 300% — on U.S. imports of the same products beyond limits agreed to but yet to be reached under the USMCA.
During the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement in 2018 that led to the USMCA, the first Trump administration sought to have Canada’s supply management system eliminated.
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Australia expulsó al embajador de Irán y suspendió su misión diplomática tras vincular a Teherán con ataques antisemitas
El gobierno de Australia ordenó la expulsión del embajador de Irán y la suspensión de sus actividades diplomáticas en Teherán, tras acusar al régimen persa de estar detrás de ataques antisemitas contra objetivos judíos en Melbourne y Sídney.
Según informó el primer ministro australiano, Anthony Albanese, se trata de la primera vez desde la Segunda Guerra Mundial que Canberra adopta una medida de este tipo contra un representante diplomático extranjero.
Durante una comparecencia pública, Anthony Albanese afirmó que “los servicios de inteligencia llegaron a la conclusión profundamente inquietante de que Teherán dirigió al menos dos ataques antisemitas en territorio australiano”.
El jefe de gobierno detalló que los incidentes investigados incluyen un ataque incendiario dirigido en octubre de 2024 contra el Lewis Continental Cafe, una cafetería kosher ubicada en el suburbio de Bondi, en Sídney, y otro incendio intencional perpetrado en diciembre del mismo año contra la sinagoga Adass Israel, en Melbourne. “Se trata de actos de agresión extraordinarios y peligrosos orquestados por una nación extranjera en suelo australiano”, declaró Albanese ante los medios.
El mandatario subrayó que Irán buscó “socavar la cohesión social y sembrar la discordia en nuestra comunidad”, señalando que “es totalmente inaceptable” que un Estado extranjero impulse actos de odio en Australia.
Albanese advirtió que las autoridades de inteligencia consideran “probable” que Teherán haya coordinado además otros ataques antisemitas registrados en el país.
A raíz del informe de los servicios de seguridad, el embajador iraní en Canberra, Ahmad Sadeghi, fue declarado persona non grata, junto con otros tres funcionarios de la representación diplomática iraní. Todos ellos deberán abandonar el territorio australiano en un plazo máximo de siete días. El Ejecutivo también resolvió retirar a su embajador en Teherán y suspender todas las actividades de su misión diplomática en la capital iraní. Los diplomáticos australianos han sido ubicados “a salvo en un tercer país”, según confirmó el primer ministro.
En paralelo, el gobierno recomendó a todos los ciudadanos australianos que no viajen a Irán y pidió a quienes permanezcan allí que abandonen ese país en cuanto sea posible y seguro. Las autoridades consideraron que la situación actual representa un riesgo inaceptable para la integridad de sus ciudadanos y su personal consular.
La ministra australiana de Asuntos Exteriores, Penny Wong, calificó la decisión como histórica. “Es la primera vez en la posguerra que Australia expulsa a un embajador”, remarcó. Wong también precisó que, pese a la gravedad de los hechos, Canberra mantendrá relaciones diplomáticas limitadas con Irán para proteger intereses consulares y de ciudadanos en el extranjero.
“Irán ha intentado socavar la cohesión de nuestra sociedad, ha tratado de dividir a la comunidad australiana y lo ha hecho con actos de agresión que no solo buscaban aterrorizar, sino que además pusieron en riesgo vidas australianas”, sostuvo Wong.
La ministra enfatizó que el Ejecutivo prioriza la protección de los habitantes del país ante amenazas extranjeras. “Estos actos extraordinarios y peligrosos de agresión, orquestados por una nación extranjera en suelo australiano, han cruzado una línea”, añadió.
El gobierno australiano detalló que el Cuerpo de la Guardia Revolucionaria Islámica de Irán (CGRI), institución encargada de la seguridad del régimen iraní y de operaciones en el exterior, será incluido en la lista oficial de organizaciones terroristas.
El ministro del Interior, Tony Burke, expuso el impacto que los episodios generaron en la sociedad australiana. “Hay antisemitismo en Australia. Es real, es debilitante, pero los ataques fueron impulsados por el antisemitismo originado en Irán. Dicho esto, nada cambia el hecho de que fue un ataque antisemita y nada cambia el hecho de que el impacto es idéntico”, señaló el ministro.
La investigación determinó que los responsables de los ataques ejecutaron instrucciones directas de Teherán, con el objetivo de sembrar temor y tensión en la comunidad judía australiana. Según el informe, ambos atentados buscaban “alterar la cohesión social, dividir a la sociedad y amenazar a ciudadanos australianos de fe judía”. Las autoridades australianas reiteraron su rechazo al antisemitismo y anunciaron medidas adicionales de seguridad y monitoreo en espacios sensibles de Sídney, Melbourne y otras ciudades.
(Con información de EFE y AFP)
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Social media erupts after DNC speaker says migrant crime, carjackings ‘don’t matter’ to many Americans
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Insha Rahman, vice president of advocacy and partnerships of the far-left criminal justice reform group, Vera Institute of Justice, caused an uproar on social media after she told Democrats on Monday that migrant crime and carjackings «don’t matter to that many Americans.»
During a political strategy session about crime and safety at the Democratic National Committee’s summer meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Rahman urged Democrats to seize on President Donald Trump’s crime crackdown, calling it a «political liability.»
«Trump is not about safety,» Rahman said. «This is a political power grab, and he will do it however he can, whether that’s at the ballot box or taking over our cities.»
While Rahman focused her remarks on how Democrats can reject Republicans’ «tough on crime scare tactics,» the Vera Institute, where the Democratic strategist serves as a senior official, has a long record of supporting defunding the police.
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«We must dismantle the current culture of policing in the United States,» the Vera Institute said in a 2020 statement during the anti-police protests that erupted across the country after George Floyd, a Black man, was murdered by a White police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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The liberal criminal justice think tank went on to affirm their support for «the outrage we’re seeing,» and announced they were «building on this unique moment of public awareness, outrage, and calls to defund the police.»
Fox News Digital has covered the Vera Institute for years, including its ties to former President Joe Biden’s Justice Department and billionaire liberal megadonor George Soros.
The Vera Institute has advocated for defunding the police and has openly stated their mission is to demolish a «racist» criminal justice system.
A woman waves an upside-down American flag as people gather at Black Lives Matter protest on Nov. 5, 2020, in Washington, D.C. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)
Fox News Digital discovered in 2022 that the non-profit secured a staggering $171.7 million federal contract to provide legal assistance to unaccompanied minors, according to a federal database.
«Don’t take the bait in talking about migrant crime or carjackings or the things that actually don’t matter to that many Americans, and then go to the policy proposals that we think work,» Rahman instructed Democrats on Monday.
This clip went viral Monday afternoon with conservatives slamming Rahman for her rhetoric and pointing out her organization’s ties to the Defund the Police movement.
«Who has given money to the George Soros-tied Vera Institute?» conservative communicator Steve Guest posted on X. «The Biden DOJ, the Open Society Foundations, Rockefeller, Tides, the Ford Foundation and MacKenzie Scott. Vera Institute in turn supports BLM and numerous left wing causes. FOLLOW THE MONEY!»
«This Democrat Speaker is a member of the Vera Institute of Justice which advocates for defunding the police,» the Republican National Committee’s research account posted on X.
«She makes over $300k in salary according to last year’s tax filings, and the Vera Institute brought in around $140 million in revenue,» the Project for Immigration Reform posted on X.
Trump last week floated the deployment of federal law enforcement to address major U.S. cities, including Chicago, after mobilizing more than 2,200 National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., to fight a «crime emergency.»
A Metropolitan Police Department police cruiser blocks a street leading to the White House on Nov. 3, 2020. (iStock)
The president signed an executive order on Monday, seeking to eliminate cashless bail for suspects arrested in the nation’s capital.
Rahman said Democrats should respond by saying, «They want money and privilege and to give a handout to the bail bondsman while we want to make sure safety, not wealth, determines who stays in jail and who goes home to their families.»
She also advised Democrats not to let Trump «take credit» for crime going down.
«It’s going down in spite of him and because of Democratic leadership like mine. That is the phrase you want to use. Don’t be afraid of the crime debate. Lean all the way in. Call out what Trump is doing and say, ‘The reason crime is going down, our communities are becoming safer, is because of us,’» Rahman said.
Members of the National Guard facilitate entries at the staging area of local and federal law enforcement agencies inside the U.S. Park Police Anacostia Operations Facility on Aug. 12, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Craig Hudson For The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Regarding questions about defunding the police, Rahman said Democrats should «call out the scare tactics.»
«I’m not about scare tactics or slogans,» she said Democrats should tell their Republican opponents. «I’m not afraid to have an honest conversation.»
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«We keep expecting police to solve every social problem. No one profession can do that. We’re spending too much and putting too much burden on them. It’s time to pry out some promising new solutions to lift the burden. It’s time for support and change, not blame,» she added.
Fox News Digital reached out to the DNC and Vera but did not immediately receive a response.
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