Canadian MP Charlie Angus slammed ‘Shark Tank’ investor Kevin O’Leary on Saturday after claiming he would meet with newly elected US President Donald Trump to help broker a deal to create an ‘economic union between the United States and Canada.
“As Mar-a-Lago moves to Washington, we’re watching a parade of scammers,” said Angus, a member of the left-wing New Democratic Party that sits in Canada’s parliament, in an interview with Ben Meiselas of the MeidasTouch Network. .
“We have loser billionaires like Kevin O’Leary coming to talk to Trump and saying he’s going to make a deal to sell out Canada. There are losers at Fox talking about a takeover that would make us the 51st state. We all know what that’s about – this is all about distraction.”
Angus said Trump comes into power and will bring “maximum chaos and destruction” to Americans, so he is looking for a “punching bag.”
“And there are those nice, quiet Canadian neighbors who are threatening to take them over…,” said Angus, who urged Canadian politicians to “stand up to the bully” at Trump in a recent op-ed for Canada’s National Observer.
“But the thing is, Donald, it’s not going to work and what you’re doing is creating chaos for your own people.”
Angus has sharply criticized Trump’s “deranged” attacks on his country, including his threats to impose a 25% tariff on all goods entering the US from Canada, mocking Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as “governor” and speculates what life would be like if Canada became ‘our 51st state’.
O’Leary, a native Canadian, is one of the group businessmen That to have has grown together with Trump since his election victory, unfoundedly claimed in a Fox Business appearance Last month, it emerged that at least half of Canadians are “interested” in an economic union for the two countries and “erasing” the border between them.
Only 6% of Canadians said the country should join the US This is evident from a study published last month by the Angus Reid Institutea non-profit public opinion research group in Canada.
In other appearances On the network, O’Leary emphasized that Canadians do not want to give up their sovereignty, but such a deal could include a common single currency, “a few” seats on the Federal Reserve Board for Canadian bankers and an “EU-style passport.” ” for the two countries.
O’Leary added that no one wants Trudeau to help negotiate a deal between the countries, so he wants to go to Mar-a-Lago himself to make it happen.
‘I’ll start with the story. The 41 million Canadians, I think most of them will trust me on this deal,” O’Leary said.
He told Trudeau and other Canadian officials this on Friday whom Trump recently met at Mar-a-Lago are about to be “wiped off the map” in that country’s November elections and suggested that the new US president should “wait” to take his ideas further.
Angus, in his interview with Meiselas, invited O’Leary to “go to the United States.”
“We wrap you in ribbons and bows and we even mention it because the man is a con artist,” he said.
See more of Angus’ interview on the MeidasTouch Network below.