{"id":125921,"date":"2025-09-07T05:56:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T05:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/125921\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T05:56:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T05:56:17","slug":"canada-will-thank-trump-in-20-years-former-quebec-premier-jean-charest-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/125921\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada will thank Trump in 20 years, former Quebec premier Jean Charest says"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Former Quebec premier Jean Charest speaks to reporters at a business luncheon on relations with the United States, in Quebec City, on Tuesday.Jacques Boissinot\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

Jean Charest says Canada will eventually thank U.S. President Donald<\/a> Trump for providing the country with a much-needed economic shakeup.<\/p>\n

The Quebec<\/a> premier between 2003 and 2012 told business leaders in Quebec City on Tuesday that Trump is pulling Canada out of its \u201clethargy\u201d and forcing its leaders to rethink the economy.<\/p>\n

Charest is now a member of Prime Minister Mark Carney\u2019s council on Canada-U.S. relations.<\/p>\n

He says Trump and his tariff war are forcing Canada to review its tax system, economy and the way it carries out major projects.<\/p>\n

The ex-premier adds that Canada needs to reduce its dependence on the United States and expand into new markets. <\/p>\n

Charest suggested the country under Carney\u2019s leadership will accelerate big projects, rethink federalism, and redefine the country\u2019s role in the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m from the school of thought that we\u2019ll thank Donald Trump in 20 years for shaking us up in Canada and bringing us out of our lethargy,\u201d he said Tuesday in a speech at a Quebec City hotel. \u201cIt\u2019s high time we rethink our economy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Former Quebec premier Jean Charest speaks to reporters at a business luncheon on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,49,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,295,894,887,914,880,881,893,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,66,865,61,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-125921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-science","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}