“And if I was still prime minister, I would be prepared to impoverish the country and not be annexed, if that was the option we’re facing,” Harper said to an invitation-only audience.
“Now, because I do think that if Trump were determined, he could really do wide structural and economic damage, but I wouldn’t accept that,” said Harper. “I would accept any level of damage to preserve the independence of the country.”
“Important in that is to have a plan of how we would reorient our economy, so we would recover that prosperity again, and not just solve the damage,” he added.