The more that President Donald Trump feigns disinterest in all things Canadian, the more you have to think he really, really wants what Canada has.
“We don’t need them to make our cars. We don’t need their lumber…we don’t need their oil and gas,” he told the World Economic Forum in Davos last week.
America’s “bad management” over the past four years has allowed trade to become imbalanced, to the point where the U.S. is “paying US$200 billion a year to keep Canada going”, Trump said. (The U.S. Bureau for Economic Analysis pegs the goods and services trade deficit at US$40.6 billion, as a result of the Americans importing large quantities of discounted Canadian heavy crude.)
Nothing good will happen with Trudeau playing PM.
