11/17/2020

2020 ELECTION/CANADA/VOTER FRAUD/VOTING: “THIS SAYS IT ALL! RT @ElectionsCan_E Elections Canada does not use Dominion Voting Systems. We use paper ballots counted by hand in front of scrutineers and have never used voting machines or electronic tabulators to count votes in our 100-year history. #CdnPoli“ ––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 17, 2020 10:39 am […]

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9/25/2020

CANADA/TRANSPORTATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Based on the strong recommendation of @SenDanSullivan and @repdonyoung of the Great State of Alaska, it is my honor to inform you that I will be issuing a Presidential Permit for the A2A Cross-Border Rail between Alaska & Canada. Congratulations to the people of Alaska & Canada!“ ––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 25, […]

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8/25/2020

CANADA/JOBS/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS: “Beautiful Maine Lobsters will now move tariff-free to Europe! For first time in many years. GREAT new deal by USTR levels playing field with Canada. Millions of $’s more in EXPORTS… …More JOBS from Eastport, Cutler, & Jonesport to Stonington, Friendship, and Casco Bay. I am proud to help the great people of […]

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7/24/2020

CANADA/DRUGS/HEALTHCARE/OBAMA ADMIN/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “We will finally allow the safe and legal importation of prescription drugs from Canada and other countries where the price for the identical drug is incredibly lower. It’s a difference like you wouldn’t believe — 70 percent, 80 percent, 90 percent, 30 percent — but massively lower than the identical drug made […]

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7/8/2020

CANADA/MEXICO/NAFTA/TRADE DEALS/USMCA: “Today we celebrate the historic victory we achieved together just days ago when NAFTA was officially terminated — one of the worst trade deals in history — and replaced with a brand-new, beautiful USMCA… While NAFTA slashed wages and eliminated jobs, the USMCA includes groundbreaking labor protections for workers in both nations. This […]

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4/28/2020

CANADA/MEXICO/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDER/USMCA: “The Interagency Labor Committee for Monitoring and Enforcement (Committee) is hereby established to coordinate the efforts of the United States to monitor the implementation and maintenance of the labor obligations of Canada and Mexico, to monitor the implementation and maintenance of Mexico’s labor reform, and to recommend enforcement actions with respect to […]

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3/29/2020

BRITAIN/CANADA/FOREIGN DIGNITARIES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I am a great friend and admirer of the Queen & the United Kingdom. It was reported that Harry and Meghan, who left the Kingdom, would reside permanently in Canada. Now they have left Canada for the U.S. however, the U.S. will not pay for their security protection. They must pay!” […]

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12/7/2019

CANADA/MEXICO/NANCY PELOSI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/USMCA: “Hard to believe, but if Nancy Pelosi had put our great Trade Deal with Mexico and Canada, USMCA, up for a vote long ago, our economy would be even better. If she doesn’t move quickly, it will collapse!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 7, 2019 1:54 pm […]

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10/21/2019

CANADA/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Congratulations to @JustinTrudeau on a wonderful and hard fought victory. Canada is well served. I look forward to working with you toward the betterment of both of our countries!”  –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, October 21, 2019 11:33 pm […]

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10/21/2019

CANADA/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Congratulations to @JustinTrudeau on a wonderful and hard fought victory. Canada is well served. I look forward to working with you toward the betterment of both of our countries!”  –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, October 21, 2019 11:33 pm […]

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8/14/2019

CANADA/DONALD JR/SECRET SERVICE/TRUMP FAMILY: “Donald Trump Jr., the president’s eldest son, flew to Canada for one of his regular visits to the Yukon mountains to hunt stone sheep with friends. He was accompanied by Secret Service agents on that August 2017 trip, just as he had been since his father was sworn in as president […]

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7/31/2019

CANADA/DRUGS/FDA/PHARMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration said on Wednesday [7-31-19] that it was taking steps to make it easier to import less expensive prescription drugs from other countries, particularly Canada. The move has long been supported by progressives but has encountered fierce opposition from the pharmaceutical industry. The proposal would permit pilot programs developed by […]

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7/31/2019

CANADA/DRUGS/HHS/PHARMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration took a step Wednesday [7-31-19] toward allowing importation of medicines from Canada, an action the president has advocated as a way to bring cheaper prescription drugs to Americans, but the pharmaceutical industry was quick to resist the move. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said it […]

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6/26/2019

AUTO INDUSTRY/CANADA/CLIMATE CHANGE/ENVIRONMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Canada has signaled a willingness to buck one of President Trump’s most significant environmental rollbacks — a major weakening of auto pollution standards — by signing a clean-car deal with California, the state leading the fight against the rollback. Wednesday’s [6-26-19] Agreement, which pledges to advance the use of clean […]

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6/20/2019

CANADA/FOREIGN POLICY/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Canada’s prime minister left a meeting in the Oval Office Thursday [6-20-19] with a mixed political blessing: A proclamation of friendship from President Donald Trump. Justin Trudeau doesn’t want to be seen as chummy with Trump, since Trudeau’s liberal base back home despises him. But the reality is Canada — […]

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6/4/2019

CANADA/MEXICO/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It was a jubilant day for North America. At least, it looked that way to leaders in Mexico City and Ottawa. Steel tariffs had just been lifted across the continent. Relieved Canadians had responded by introducing a bill to implement USMCA, the Trump administration’s signature trade deal, and Mexico had just followed […]

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5/21/2019

CAMPAIGN FINANCE/CANADA/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A campaign finance watchdog group filed a complaint on Tuesday [5-21-19] against a Canadian billionaire alleging that he violated a federal ban on contributions by foreigners when his United States-based company donated $1.75 million last year to a political committee supporting President Trump’s agenda. The complaint was filed by the […]

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5/20/2019

BUSINESS/CANADA/LOBBYING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Barry Zekelman, a Canadian billionaire whose business is mostly in the United States, is not a guy who likes to lose — or go slow. On days off, he likes to race his Ferrari 488 sports cars. Or he might climb aboard his Gulfstream IV jet to fly to the Bahamas to […]

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5/17/2019

CANADA/MEXICO/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration reached an agreement with Canada and Mexico to lift tariffs on metal imports, resolving a yearlong standoff that inflamed North Atlantic tensions and complicated efforts to ratify a revised trade deal…As part of the agreement, both Mexico and Canada agreed to lift retaliatory tariffs on American products. Instead of […]

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5/17/2019

CANADA/CHINA/EU/MEXICO/TARIFFS/TRADE WAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump agreed on Friday [5-17-19] to lift tariffs on metal imports from Mexico and Canada, removing a major irritant for two important allies that in exchange agreed to stop punishing American farmers with their own taxes on pork, cheese and milk. At the same time, Mr. Trump postponed a decision […]

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5/14/2019

CANADA/MEXICO/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Senate Finance Chairman Chuck Grassley suggested today that U.S. and Canadian officials could be nearing a deal to lift the tariffs President Donald Trump imposed on steel and aluminum imports. Grassley, in a call with reporters, said he’s hopeful U.S. and Canadian officials are working to conclude negotiations ‘based on the fact […]

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5/2/2019

CANADA/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Prime Minister Justin Trudeau agonized over what might seem like an inconsequential detail before his first meeting with President Donald Trump: how to shake hands. During a February 2017 flight to Washington to meet the president, Trudeau was fixated with being viewed as standing his ground without antagonizing Trump. So the prime […]

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12/14/2018

CANADA/CHINA/SANCTIONS/TECHNOLOGY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Canada’s foreign minister warned top Trump administration officials on Friday [12-14-18] not to politicize the pending extradition of Chinese technology executive Meng Wanzhou. ‘Canada understands the rule of law and extradition ought not ever to be politicized or used as tools to resolve other issues,’ Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s foreign affairs minister, told […]

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12/12/2018

CANADA/CHINA/TECHNOLOGY/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Top law enforcement officials on Wednesday [12-12-18] pushed back on comments from President Donald Trump suggesting the prosecution of a Chinese telecommunications executive could be used as leverage in trade negotiations…Demers said Wednesday that if Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou is extradited from Canada, as the US has requested, ‘our criminal case […]

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12/12/2018

CANADA/CHINA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Canada issued a stern warning to President Donald Trump on Wednesday [12-12-18]: don’t use the arrest of a Chinese executive as a bargaining chip in trade talks. “Our extradition partners should not seek to politicize the extradition process or use it for ends other than the pursuit of justice,” Canadian Foreign […]

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12/6/2018

CANADA/CONGRESS/MEXICO/NAFTA/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump just celebrated the signing of a new North American trade pact with Canada and Mexico, but he faces a huge roadblock in Congress over U.S. tariffs that are still in place on steel and aluminum imports from the two U.S. neighbors. The two nations are still working to negotiate […]

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11/30/2018

CANADA/MEXICO/NAFTA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Just signed one of the most important, and largest, Trade Deals in U.S. and World History. The United States, Mexico and Canada worked so well together in crafting this great document. The terrible NAFTA will soon be gone. The USMCA will be fantastic for all!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 30, 2018 […]

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11/30/2018

CANADA/FOREIGN DIGNITARIES/G20/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “He has called Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada ‘very dishonest and weak.’ He has also, perhaps jokingly, accused Canada — which came into formal being in 1867 — of burning down the White House during the War of 1812. But on Friday [11-30-18] morning, President Trump, Mr. Trudeau and Mexico’s […]

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11/30/2018

CANADA/MEXICO/NAFTA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump and his Mexican and Canadian counterparts sought to put the acrimony of the past two years behind them on Friday as they signed a new trade agreement governing hundreds of billions of dollars in commerce that underpins their mutually dependent economies. Meeting for the first time since the revised North […]

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11/29/2018

CANADA/CHINA/G20/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Buenos AiresIf the G20 were a music festival, you’d be stressing about not being there. The once snooze-worthy global power fest now looks like diplomacy on steroids. Where else — even pay-per-view pales in comparison — will you get so many heavyweights waiting to face off: Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump; Donald […]

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11/16/2018

CANADA/ECONOMY/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald Trump is so unpopular in Canada that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is using the specter of the U.S. president to attack his conservative rival ahead of a national election set for next year. Trudeau, whose ruling Liberals have a 12-seat majority in the 338-seat parliament, calls Conservative Party leader Andrew Scheer […]

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10/24/2018

CANADA/MIKE PENCE/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s plan to create a U.S. Space Force would require a multiyear reorganization of military operations, with potential spillover effects on existing partnerships that involve Canada. Canada is watching and evaluating whether NORAD — the joint Canada-U.S. command defending North American air space — or the terms of Canada’s […]

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10/18/2018

CANADA/CHINA/ECONOMY/EU/TRADE WAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Take a trade war with China, mix in frosty economic relations with Canada and Europe, add in Federal Reserve rate hikes and here’s what you get: A recession by 2020. So says Ronald Temple, head of US equity for Lazard Asset Management. He told CNN Business that President Donald Trump’s protectionist […]

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10/17/2018

CANADA/CHINA/MEXICO/SOUTH KOREA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Fresh off securing trade agreements with South Korea, Canada and Mexico, President Trump is embarking on a new plan: refashioning the Trans-Pacific Partnership to his liking through a flurry of bilateral trade deals. Mr. Trump, who pulled the United States out of the trade pact with 11 other countries that […]

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10/11/2018

CANADA/MEXICO/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “New and unprecedented forms of American power may have just been entrenched in the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, in a series of little-advertised negotiating achievements by the Trump administration. Alex reports that at least six provisions in the USMCA give the U.S. the power to scrutinize, micromanage, or punish its neighbors’ trade policies. […]

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10/9/2018

AUTO INDUSTRY/CANADA/MEXICO/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s new North American trade deal could lead to some increased investment in the U.S., as he promised — but it will come at a price to consumers. The newly struck three-way agreement includes numerous strict new rules requiring auto manufacturers to source a significant portion of their […]

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10/4/2018

CANADA/NAFTA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Two world leaders couldn’t be further apart in ideology but closer in geography, but after months of tension over NAFTA negotiations, President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau could finally be making up. Several sources familiar with a Monday [10-1-18] call between the two leaders described the president dominating the […]

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10/3/2018

CANADA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “After months of tension and insults in their trade war, President Donald Trump tried out a new role with Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau: peacemaker. Several sources familiar with a Monday {10-1-18] call between the two leaders described the president dominating the conversation with an almost uninterrupted burst of enthusiasm, speaking […]

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10/3/2018

CANADA/MEXICO/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Thank you to Congressman Tom Reed of New York for your wonderful comments on our great new Trade Deal with Mexico and Canada, the USMCA. I have long ago given you my Full Endorsement, and for good reason. Keep up the Great Work! @Varneyco” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, October 3, 2018 9:02 […]

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10/2/2018

CANADA/MEXICO/NAFTA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump has long wielded the word ‘Nafta’ like an epithet, deriding the North American Free Trade Agreement as the worst trade deal in history. So when he renamed it the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement — or U.S.M.C.A. — this week, he may have short-circuited attempts to criticize the new deal. Why? […]

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10/2/2018

CANADA/CHINA/MEXICO/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The fine print of the new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement includes a provision that requires any country in the pact to give three months’ notice to other parties if it is entering into trade negotiations with a nonmarket economy, which the U.S. considers China to be. If one country enters into a […]

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10/1/2018

AUTO INDUSTRY/CANADA/MEXICO/NAFTA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Four days before the deadline, it appeared increasingly unlikely that the United States and Canada would rally to save the three-party NAFTA framework. Intensive negotiations had yielded important progress, but the two sides remained far apart on the most contentious issues…It was a gloomy outlook for talks that had persisted for […]

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10/1/2018

CANADA/CONGRESS/DEMS/MEXICO/NAFTA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Monday [10-1-18] praised a new trade deal struck with Canada and Mexico to revamp NAFTA, but acknowledged he could have trouble getting Congress to approve it if Democrats take control of the House or Senate in the November midterm elections…Trump savored the end of 14 months of […]

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10/1/2018

CANADA/MEXICO/NAFTA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Get ready to hear a lot of talk about USMCA — the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement. Trade officials struck a deal late Sunday [9-30-18] night for a three-way trade pact to replace NAFTA that includes significant changes to dairy import rules. The preliminary deal marks a major step toward fulfilling one of President […]

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10/1/2018

CANADA/MEXICO/NAFTA/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday [10-1-18] touted the newly reached trade deal with Canada and Mexico that will replace NAFTA as a massive job engine, creating positions across the manufacturing, agriculture, technology and financial services sectors…The three countries came to the final deal, which Trump called the ‘most modern, up-to-date […]

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10/1/2018

CANADA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Late last night, our deadline, we reached a wonderful new Trade Deal with Canada, to be added into the deal already reached with Mexico. The new name will be The United States Mexico Canada Agreement, or USMCA. It is a great deal for all three countries, solves the many……” -Donald Trump, […]

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10/1/2018

CANADA/MEXICO/NAFTA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “There’s a lot to digest in the new trade agreement that the United States, Mexico and Canada finalized in deadline-beating fashion on Sunday [9-30-18], starting with a name change: If the new deal is adopted by all three countries, the North American Free Trade Agreement will give way to the United […]

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9/27/2018

CANADA/CONGRESS/MEXICO/NAFTA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration and Congress are on a collision course over the fate of the North American Free Trade Agreement as the White House prepares to release text of a trade deal with Mexico that does not include Canada. Steven Mnuchin, the Treasury secretary, said on Thursday [9-27-18] that while the administration […]

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9/26/2018

AUTO INDUSTRY/CANADA/MEXICO/NAFTA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UN: “President Trump said he rejected a meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada during the United Nations General Assembly this week and threatened on Wednesday [9-26-18] to punish Canada by taxing the cars it exports into America, signaling a new low in relations between the two nations. Mr. Trump’s […]

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9/26/2018

CANADA/NAFTA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UN: “U.S. President Donald Trump said he rejected Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s request for a meeting during the UN General Assembly this week because bilateral North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) talks are going poorly and the United States is unhappy with Canada’s negotiators. Trump said he would not accept the meeting […]

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9/25/2018

CANADA/MEXICO/NAFTA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “This week, Canada’s leaders have a big choice to make: whether to go along with the new North American Free Trade Agreement negotiated between the Trump administration and Mexico. President Donald Trump is demanding that Canada accept new rules on everything from cross-border investment to dairy to autos. In anticipation, the Canadian […]

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9/25/2018

CANADA/MEXICO/NAFTA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A day after winning the Mexican presidential election, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador took a congratulatory call from U.S. President Donald Trump. But Trump had something more important on his mind: Would Mexico’s new president consider a bilateral trade deal? Lopez Obrador responded he would be ‘open to the possibility’ in the absence […]

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9/7/2018

AUTO INDUSTRY/CANADA/TAXES/TRADE WAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said Friday [9-7-18] he does not want to hurt Canada’s economy but also warned that if he imposes taxes on cars it would be ‘devastating’ for the neighboring country…Trump spoke on route to Fargo, North Dakota, while Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland was meeting in Washington with […]

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9/5/2018

CANADA/NAFTA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Wednesday [9-5-18] said the United States should have a fair trade deal with Canada, as the two countries resumed negotiations over renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement. Trump made the comments during a visit with Kuwaiti ruler Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah.” –Lisa Lambert, “Trump says […]

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9/4/2018

CANADA/CONGRESS/NAFTA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “TRUMP SLAMS CANADA AFTER TALKS FALTER: President Donald Trump blasted Canada on Saturday [9-1-18], one day after his administration failed to conclude talks with the United States’ northern neighbor on the terms of a NAFTA agreement. He also warned Congress not to ‘interfere’ with the negotiations and repeated his threat to terminate […]

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9/1/2018

CANADA/CONGRESS/NAFTA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “There is no political necessity to keep Canada in the new NAFTA deal. If we don’t make a fair deal for the U.S. after decades of abuse, Canada will be out. Congress should not interfere w/ these negotiations or I will simply terminate NAFTA entirely & we will be far better off…” […]

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9/1/2018

CANADA/CONGRESS/NAFTA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “There is no political necessity to keep Canada in the new NAFTA deal. If we don’t make a fair deal for the U.S. after decade of abuse, Canada will be out. Congress should not interfere with these negotiations or I will simply terminate NAFTA entirely & we will be far better off..” […]

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8/31/2018

CANADA/NAFTA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday [8-31-18] that Canada had taken advantage of the United States on trade, as talks between the two countries, who are seeking to revamp the North American Free Trade Agreement, soured sharply. ‘I love Canada, but they’ve taken advantage of our country for many years,’ Trump […]

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8/31/2018

CANADA/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Wow, I made OFF THE RECORD COMMENTS to Bloomberg concerning Canada, and this powerful understanding was BLATANTLY VIOLATED. Oh well, just more dishonest reporting. I am used to it. At least Canada knows where I stand!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August Aug 31, 2018 1:37 pm […]

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8/31/2018

CANADA/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Friday [8-31-18] confirmed off-record, hard-line comments he had made about the United States’ negotiating stance in trade talks with Canada, saying on Twitter: ‘At least Canada knows where I stand.’ The Toronto Star reported earlier on Friday that Trump had told Bloomberg News off the record that any […]

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8/31/2018

CANADA/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Friday [8-31-18] confirmed that he made inflammatory off-the-record remarks about Canada, as he blasted the leak while also saying, ‘At least Canada knows where I stand!’ The Toronto Star earlier Friday printed remarks Trump made during an interview with Bloomberg News the day before, in which he said […]

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8/31/2018

AUTO INDUSTRY/CANADA/EU/MEXICO/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As the Trump administration sought trade concessions from Mexico in recent weeks, automakers and their suppliers feared that manufacturing costs could increase by billions of dollars. Now, they are breathing a sigh of relief. The auto industry is still waiting to learn details of the preliminary agreement that President Trump […]

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8/28/2018

AGRICULTURE/CANADA/MEXICO/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump is now turning his focus toward cutting a trade deal with Canada after the United States and Mexico reached an agreement on Monday [8-27-18]…Canada, according to Trump, has also been in conversations about joining the new deal. However, Trump said right now they’re ‘not letting anyone else in […]

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8/27/2018

CANADA/MEXICO/NAFTA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The United States and Mexico reached a two-way trade deal Monday [8-27-18], moving President Donald Trump one step closer to fulfilling a core campaign promise to revamp the North American Free Trade Agreement. The development, which happened after U.S. and Mexican trade officials met regularly for five weeks, could clear the […]

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8/27/2018

CANADA/MEXICO/NAFTA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The United States and Mexico have reached an agreement to change parts of NAFTA, the trade deal that President Donald Trump has derided for years as unfair. Trump announced the agreement from the Oval Office Monday, with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto dialed in on a conference call. But the deal […]

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8/27/2018

CANADA/MEXICO/NAFTA/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump said on Monday [8-27-18] that the United States and Mexico had reached an accord to revise key portions of the North American Free Trade Agreement and would finalize it within days, suggesting he was ready to jettison Canada from the trilateral trade pact if the country did not get […]

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8/25/2018

CANADA/MEXICO/NAFTA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said on Saturday [8-25-18] that the United States could reach a ‘big Trade Agreement’ with Mexico soon as the incoming Mexican trade negotiator signaled possible solutions to NAFTA energy rules and a contentious U.S. ‘sunset clause’ demand. Trump tweeted on Saturday morning that the United States’ ‘relationship with […]

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8/9/2018

CANADA/MEDIA/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration’s decision to impose tariffs on Canadian newsprint is hastening the demise of local newspapers across the country, forcing already-struggling publications to cut staff, reduce the number of days they print and, in at least one case, shutter entirely. Surging newsprint costs are beginning to hurt publications like The Gazette […]

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6/25/2018

CANADA/CHINA/EU/GOP/MEXICO/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump is taking his trade policy on the road this week. But the reception he is set to receive in a series of crucial 2018 states may not be what he had hoped. A series of threatening trade wars have become a weight on the President and Republicans across […]

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6/14/2018

CANADA/G7/NAFTA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Discussions on the North American Free Trade Agreement will continue into the summer, Canada’s Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said following a face-to-face meeting in Washington with the Trump administration’s chief trade envoy on Thursday [6-14-18]. The pledge to carry on with Nafta renegotiations comes on the heels of a tumultuous Group of […]

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6/13/2018

CANADA/NAFTA/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said the US decision to slap tariffs against Canada on national security grounds was ‘absurd’ and that her country was moving forward ‘more in sorrow than in anger’ with retaliatory tariffs…Freeland was in Washington on a trip planned long before the relations between the two allies veered […]

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6/13/2018

BUSINESS/CANADA/EU/FOREIGN POLICY/NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump’s eager embrace of Kim Jong-un of North Korea this week, on the heels of an acrid falling-out with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada, raised an obvious, if confounding, question: Why would an American president offend allies and cozy up to adversaries? If there was an answer in […]

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6/12/2018

CANADA/G7/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said Canadians would pay a price for countering the U.S. on trade, while his aides sought to tamp down tensions between the two allies following a dust-up with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over the weekend. U.S. administration officials have been hammering the Canadian leader for declaring Saturday […]

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6/12/2018

CANADA/G7/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Peter Navarro, one of President Trump’s top trade advisers, said on Tuesday [6-12-18] that it was a mistake to suggest that ‘there is a special place in hell’ for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada, offering a rare apology from a White House that almost never walks back heated rhetoric…He said he was […]

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6/11/2018

CANADA/G7/MIKE POMPEO/NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Secretary of State Mike Pompeo played down the rift between the U.S. and its allies after President Donald Trump split from the other six leaders at Group of Seven summit in Canada amid tensions over U.S. trade demands… Mr. Pompeo praised the G-7 nations for their help getting North Korea […]

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6/10/2018

ASIA/CANADA/G7/NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump escalated a bitter clash with some of America’s closest allies on Sunday [6-10-18], lashing out through his advisers at Canada’s prime minister in unusually personal terms and leaving himself with a diplomatic crisis as he arrived in Asia to negotiate a nuclear agreement with North Korea. A day after […]

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CANADA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Fair Trade is now to be called Fool Trade if it is not Reciprocal. According to a Canada release, they make almost 100 Billion Dollars in Trade with U.S. (guess they were bragging and got caught!). Minimum is 17B. Tax Dairy from us at 270%. Then Justin acts hurt when called […]

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6/9/2018

CANADA/G7/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “PM Justin Trudeau of Canada acted so meek and mild during our @G7 meetings only to give a news conference after I left saying that, ‘US Tariffs were kind of insulting’ and he ‘will not be pushed around.’ Very dishonest & weak. Our Tariffs are in response to his of 270% on […]

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6/9/2018

CANADA/G7/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Based on Justin’s false statements at his news conference, and the fact that Canada is charging massive Tariffs to our U.S. farmers, workers and companies, I have instructed our U.S. Reps not to endorse the Communique as we look at Tariffs on automobiles flooding the U.S. Market!” – Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June […]

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6/9/2018

CANADA/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Just left the @G7 Summit in beautiful Canada. Great meetings and relationships with the six Country Leaders especially since they know I cannot allow them to apply large Tariffs and strong barriers to…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 9, 2018 3:56 pm   […]

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6/8/2018

CANADA/G7/NAFTA/RUSSIA/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump railed on Friday [6-8-18] against Canadian tariffs on American dairy products as he prepared to travel to Canada, where he is likely to be greeted with an icy welcome ahead of a financial summit meeting with longtime American allies. ‘We’re going to deal with the very unfair trade practices’ Mr. […]

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6/8/2018

CANADA/FOREIGN POLICY/G7/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump arrived in Canada on Friday [6-8-18] with a defiant swagger for a day of meetings with America’s closest allies, vowing before he left the United States that he will not capitulate on tariffs and taunting his counterparts with a surprise call to reinstate Russia in their Group of 7 […]

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6/8/2018

CANADA/FOREIGN POLICY/G7/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s views on foreign policy — and, really, everything — are surprisingly simple: He likes people who are nice to him and do things he wants and he doesn’t like people who aren’t nice to him and don’t do things he wants. So, his views on any given issue […]

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