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Wednesday, April 26, 2017 5:12:00 AM
“We can’t let Canada or anybody else take advantage and do what they did to our workers and to our farmers,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Thursday. “Included in there is lumber, timber and energy. We’re going to have to get to the negotiating table with Canada very, very quickly.”
The president later added, “Canada, what they’ve done to our dairy farm workers, is a disgrace. It’s a disgrace. Rules, regulations, different things have changed — and our farmers in Wisconsin and New York state are being put out of business.”
Trump repeated this last complaint via Twitter on Tuesday.
Trump''s Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross condemned Canada’s trade policies saying, “This is not our idea of a properly functioning Free Trade Agreement.”
"People don't realize Canada's been very rough on the United States ... They've outsmarted our politicians for years," Trump said during a meeting with agricultural leaders.
A spokesman for the US National Association of Homebuilders called Trump's 20% import tariff on Canadian lumber 'shortsighted'.
Justin Trudeau commented, "You cannot thicken this border without hurting people on both sides of it."
"Canada is an easy target if Trump is desperate to look like his bullying approach is accomplishing something," said Laura Dawson, director of the Canada Institute at the Woodrow Wilson Center.
“Canada cannot retaliate with the force of a China or a Mexico. It’s not like Canada is going to open up the border and let a whole bunch of Central Americans into the United States. So Canada is a pretty safe target.”
The president later added, “Canada, what they’ve done to our dairy farm workers, is a disgrace. It’s a disgrace. Rules, regulations, different things have changed — and our farmers in Wisconsin and New York state are being put out of business.”
Trump repeated this last complaint via Twitter on Tuesday.
Trump''s Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross condemned Canada’s trade policies saying, “This is not our idea of a properly functioning Free Trade Agreement.”
"People don't realize Canada's been very rough on the United States ... They've outsmarted our politicians for years," Trump said during a meeting with agricultural leaders.
A spokesman for the US National Association of Homebuilders called Trump's 20% import tariff on Canadian lumber 'shortsighted'.
Justin Trudeau commented, "You cannot thicken this border without hurting people on both sides of it."
"Canada is an easy target if Trump is desperate to look like his bullying approach is accomplishing something," said Laura Dawson, director of the Canada Institute at the Woodrow Wilson Center.
“Canada cannot retaliate with the force of a China or a Mexico. It’s not like Canada is going to open up the border and let a whole bunch of Central Americans into the United States. So Canada is a pretty safe target.”
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