Ottawa: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday called Donald Trump’s national security legitimization for new metal levies on US partners “funny,” as he and French President Emmanuel Macron framed an assembled front on exchange in front of the G7 summit.

The pioneers, who met in Ottawa before making a beeline for Quebec to join the US president and their other Group of Seven accomplices for a two-day summit, noticed that the levies on steel and alumnium imports would likewise hurt American laborers.

“It is absurd to state that Canada, France… Can speak to a risk to America’s national security, as we are the best partners that the US has had for quite a while,” Trudeau told a public interview, with Macron next to him.