Sheinbaum highlighted that Mexico is a country with “enormous wealth” that is working on a promising future and stated that there are different problems among the three countries; In addition, he highlighted that the United States and Canada have problems with fentanyl consumption.
“It recently became known, I didn’t have that much information, I knew it existed but I didn’t have that much information, Canada also has a “very serious problem of fentanyl consumption”said the president.
Since the triumph of Donald Trump as the next president of the United States, the trilateral relationship is not going through its best moment. In addition to the American magnate’s threats to impose 25% tariffs on his products on Mexico and Canada, in Canada there are voices calling for Mexico to be excluded from the Trade Agreement.
This weekend it was reported that the president-elect of the United States, Donald Trump, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met in Florida to address the issue of tariffs.
Kirsten Hillman, Canada’s ambassador to the United States, stated that Trudeau considered it unfair to be compared to Mexico in terms of migrants and drug flows.
“The message that our border is so vastly different from the Mexican border was really understood,” said Ambassador Hillman.
When it comes to fentanyl, Sheinbaum insisted that Canada also has a consumption problem.
“In some cities where consumption was liberalized, a very serious problem has been generated. Then you have problems with deaths due to opioid addiction. Mexico has them at a very low level,” he noted.
He considered that Mexico is an issue in Canada because that nation is close to an election, however, he clarified that Mexicans will always be defended.
“We will always defend and we must always point out that Mexico is used as part of their electoral campaigns… Mexico will never be less, on the contrary, we are equal, we are different,” he stressed.
