Justin Trudeau, in his final week as Prime Minister, tells Donald Trump to shove it.

The prime minister's intelligence and security adviser says it's time for Canada to be less dependent on its partners, comments that come a day after the U.S. launched a trade war against its northern neighbour.

Mike Pompeo stressed that Russia did not take an inch of Ukrainian land during Trump's first administration, calling it the "best evidence" that the US President was never soft on Putin, even during his first term in office.

President Donald Trump’s launched a trade war Tuesday against America’s three biggest trading partners, drawing immediate retaliation from Mexico, Canada and China and sending financial markets into a tailspin.

President Donald Trump warned that he may implement tariffs on Canadian dairy and lumber as early as Friday, in what amounts to the latest broadside by his administration in the brewing trade war between the United States and Canada.

During a US Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Turkey's role in bridging East and West, lawmakers criticised Donald Trump’s trust in Russian President Vladimir Putin over a Ukraine peace deal. Many questioned whether Trump's stance prioritizes US interests or signals a shift toward Russian influence.

TRUMP AND PUTIN We, as Canadians, have to think about this marriage of a sort. If Russia takes Ukraine with Donald Trump’s thuggery, where does that leave us? Trump wants Canada as the 51st state. We are in the middle between these two unbalanced leaders.

The president has in recent weeks ramped up criticism of his Ukrainian counterpart while also appearing increasingly friendly toward Moscow and Vladimir Putin ... Mexico and Canada in her remarks ...