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Trudeau says Canada prepared if U.S. decides to return to Trump

Republican nomination battle officially became a three-horse race Tuesday
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks to members of the Chamber of Commerce of Metropolitan Montreal, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024, in Montreal. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christinne Muschi

Voters in the United States will likely face a choice in the November presidential election between optimism for the future, or nostalgia for a past that never existed, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday.

And while a second Donald Trump presidency “won’t be easy,” Trudeau told a Montreal business audience, the federal government is prepared for that possibility.

Trudeau made the comments a day after Trump handily won the Iowa Republican caucuses, with about 51 per cent of the vote, a result that gave the former president an early lead for the Republican nomination ahead of the country’s November election.

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