Canadian lawmaker Charlie Angus knocked Donald Trump on Friday after the US president threatened to escalate his trade war with the country should it work with the European Union to cause “economic harm” to the United States.

Angus, when asked by Ben Meiselas of the MeidasTouch Network if Trump is “scared” by how Canada and the EU have responded to his plans of further tariffs, spotted “something deeper” brewing in the US that Canadians are focused on: “watching our nearest neighbour slip into totalitarianism.”

“When we see people being pulled off the streets, when we see people at universities being grabbed, detained,........

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