Canadians Weigh in on Trump
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Brian Lerer on WNYC and for our last minutes today, something we've never done before, |
| 0:15.1 | have a call in specifically for Canadians. If you are in or originally from Canada, how has the Trump administration so |
| 0:23.4 | far made you feel about this country or about that country? Any differently from a few months ago? |
| 0:29.3 | 212-433 WNYC, 212-433-9692. I'm guessing that we have enough listeners with Canadian roots to fill up our caller |
| 0:43.3 | board to get a few calls on the air for this specifically if you are from or currently in Canada. |
| 0:52.3 | How has the Trump administration and the way he's been addressing |
| 0:56.3 | various things about Canada made you feel about this country or that country, Canadians? |
| 1:01.3 | 212-433, WNYC, 212, 433, 9692. |
| 1:08.7 | We know you've been feeling the effects of Trump 2.0 pretty strongly up there, for those of you who may be listening from Canada right now. |
| 1:17.5 | We know that Trump wants to become your president too, right? He's repeatedly expressed this desire to annex Canada and make it the 51st state, furthering this by referring to your former prime |
| 1:29.1 | minister as Governor Trudeau throughout tariff negotiations. And while this all seem like a joke |
| 1:35.8 | on the campaign trail, it sometimes feels pretty serious. According to anonymous sources who |
| 1:41.3 | spoke with the New York Times, Trump specifically told Trudeau on a phone call early last month, quote, that he did not believe that the treaty that demarcates the border between the two countries was valid, and he wants to revise the boundary. |
| 1:57.5 | So, Canadians or people with ties to Canada, how has that made you feel? Are you feeling any more |
| 2:05.2 | nationalistic? Are you feeling differently about that country or differently about this country |
| 2:10.0 | in the two months of the Trump administration? 212-433, WNYC, 212, 433, 9692. You can also tell us, tell us ignorant Americans, ignorant about |
| 2:24.7 | internal Canadian politics for the most part, how you think your new prime minister is going |
| 2:29.8 | to be different from Trudeau with respect to Trump or anything else. 212-433, WNYC, 212, 433-9-6-92. |
| 2:40.3 | We'll take your Canadian or ties to Canada calls right after this. |
| 2:55.9 | Brian Lairn on WNYC. |
| 2:59.5 | Now to some of you with ties to Canada or in Canada right now. |
| 3:02.9 | Tony in Vancouver, you're on WNYC. |
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