'Watch out': Canadian PM candidate aims threat at Elon Musk during MSNBC interview

A very blunt-talking former deputy prime minister of Canada appeared on MSNBC on Sunday morning and warned Donald Trump that his threats of tariffs will be met with equal force and more if he proceeds forward with them.

Speaking with host Ali Velshi, Chrystia Freeland, who is reportedly lining up a bid to become prime minister when federal elections roll around in the spring, aimed a considerable amount of her ire at billionaire Elon Musk who appears to have Trump's ear on every policy endeavor.

Freeland first made her point on how much the U.S. relies upon Canada as a trade partner.

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"If you didn't have Canadian electricity, the lights in your building right now might not be shining," she told the MSNBC host. "And Trump Tower, you know, that famous escalator, it might not be operating because you get electricity from Canada for New York."

"A lot of your oil comes from Canada so, when people are filling their tanks up with gas, they should say, 'Thank you, Canadian friends, for providing this.' And truly, at a time when consumers don't want to pay higher prices, at a time when the United States needs more energy rather than less, it is just self-defeating and self-mutilating to be talking about putting a tax on the energy you get from us."

Turning to Musk, she told Velshi, "You know, I think Americans are the ones who invented the term: 'The customer is always right.' Well, we are your biggest customer, so watch out. If you hit us, we will hit back and our retaliation, unlike these across-the-board tariffs is going to be surgically targeted."

"We're going to design it so we do the minimum harm to ourselves and have the maximum impact in the United States and we are going to target constituencies that have particular influence in the White House,"she elaborated. "So one of the things I am proposing is a 100% tariff on Teslas, and I am inviting all the countries in the world that would be affected by these tariffs to join us. I think that would get us some attention in the Oval Office."

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