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United States Senator from Vermont Bernie Sanders has issued a scathing response to US President Donald Trump’s claims that Canada ought to be part of. The 83-year-old additionally claimed the nation is “boycotting” USA items following the introduction of heavy merchandise tariffs.

Last month, Trump, 78, claimed Canada might keep away from larger taxes if it turned the 51st state of America. The comment was made in retaliation to Ontario’s Premier Doug Ford, who threatened to “shut off electricity completely” amid the continued tariff struggle.

Calling the transfer an “abusive threat” the Republican said: “The only thing that makes sense is for Canada to become our cherished Fifty First State. This would make all Tariffs, and everything else, totally disappear.”

Meanwhile final 12 months, Trump mocked Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, calling him the “Governor of the Great State of Canada” in his Truth Social post. “I look forward to seeing the Governor again soon so that we may continue our in depth talks on Tariffs and Trade, the results of which will be truly spectacular for all!”

During a town hall with CNN, independent Vermont senator Sanders had his say on the slight known. “In Canada when you have a President of the United States who goes out of his way to insult the Prime Minister. He calls him governor,” he began. “’Oh by the way, you’re Canadian. We’re going to make you the 51st state’.”

Sanders also used the town hall to discuss Trump’s newly imposed tariffs. These levies, introduced earlier this 12 months, see a 25 p.c responsibility being added to all items imported from Mexico and Canada that aren’t lined below the area’s USMCA commerce pact, as per Reuters.

Sanders claimed in the wake of the taxes, Canadians are no longer willing to travel to America. He also explained they’d started “boycotting” US-based goods, much like residents of Mexico and others across the globe.

“There were allies. We fought World War II, defeated Nazism fighting with our friends [in the] UK, France, throughout Europe. And now they’re saying ‘What is God’s name is going on with the United States of America?’”

The politician – who previously ran for Democratic nomination in the 2016 and 2020 Presidential Elections – added that America’s goal is to be the “model for the world”.

“We want people to look at us and say ‘We want to like be like the United States not ‘Oh God, the United States. What are they doing?’.”

Yesterday (April 9), Trump back-pedalled on his tariff policy, pausing the so-called “reciprocal tariffs” for many countries the world over for 90 days, as stories CBC.

Canada and Mexico nevertheless haven’t had their tariffs reversed.