The premier of a Canadian province launched a blistering attack on US President Donald Trump on Thursday, calling him a \u201cbad person\u201d and \u201cnot to be trusted\u201d and urging Canada to keep fighting rather than rush to make concessions in trade talks with Washington.<\/p>\n
Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew said Canada has leverage in the talks even as his province weighs restoring US alcohol sales at Prime Minister Mark Carney\u2019s urging to help secure a deal that would avert threatened 50 per cent US tariffs.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverybody knows the American president by now, he\u2019s erratic, he\u2019s irresponsible, and he\u2019s not to be trusted. And this is the person that we were supposed to make a deal with, and we\u2019re going to make additional concessions for it. That\u2019s why I say you can\u2019t make a good deal with a bad person, because who\u2019s to say it\u2019s not going to be undone?\u201d Kinew said.<\/p>\n
Dominic LeBlanc, the federal minister responsible for Canada-US trade, said on Thursday the two countries were close to finalising an agreement after he returned to Washington to meet again US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re very close. We continue to make progress,\u201d he said, adding that Canadian officials would remain in Washington to keep working on the deal. Trump has called the emerging agreement \u201cvery fair\u201d to both sides, while tariffs on about US$20 billion worth of Canadian imports have been postponed until 12.01am on Saturday. Neither side has released the full terms.<\/p>\n
Despite his criticism of Trump, Kinew said Manitoba may go along with Carney\u2019s request as part of a \u201cTeam Canada\u201d approach. But he urged consumers to keep buying Canadian even if US products return to provincial liquor stores. Other provincial leaders, including the premiers of Saskatchewan and Nova Scotia, have publicly backed the direction of Carney\u2019s negotiation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The premier of a Canadian province launched a blistering attack on US President Donald Trump on Thursday, calling…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[991,17,7185,162,7492,240,111,245,242,94,241,48118,33103,2393,2565],"class_list":["post-176608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mark-carney","tag-america","tag-canada","tag-dominic-leblanc","tag-donald-trump","tag-jamieson-greer","tag-manitoba","tag-mark-carney","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-nova-scotia","tag-ontario","tag-quebec","tag-robert-armstrong","tag-robert-bothwell","tag-saskatchewan","tag-wab-kinew"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}