Mon Aug 28, 2023 – 8:15 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – Amid increasing positive poll numbers for former U.S. President Donald Trump despite his recent court troubles, Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly has reportedly said the federal government is working on a “game plan” should the U.S. re-elect a “far-right” president in 2024.
As first reported by the National Post over a week ago, Joly made the comments in an interview she gave in French with a Montreal radio station.
Dylan Robertson of the National Post noted in his piece titled “Mélanie Joly pushes conspiracy theories about Pierre Poilievre” that Joly said, “Canada has been considering a ‘game plan’ for how it would respond if the United States takes a far-right, authoritarian shift after next year’s presidential elections.”
“We are certainly working on scenarios,” Joly is reported to have said.
She continued, saying to her interviewer, “Well, of course, you have to be ready. I think that we must certainly prepare several scenarios, because our political (and) economic reality is closely linked to what is happening in the United States.”
Joly said she will be working with “my colleagues and with the mayors, the provincial premiers,
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