{"id":82686,"date":"2025-07-22T08:15:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/82686\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T08:15:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:15:16","slug":"trump-thinks-canadians-are-mean-and-nasty-for-boycotting-u-s-travel-booze-ambassador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/82686\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump thinks Canadians are \u2018mean and nasty\u2019 for boycotting U.S. travel, booze: Ambassador"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are Canadians \u201cmean and nasty\u201d for refusing to travel to the U.S. and pulling American booze from liquor store shelves amid tariff and annexation threats?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the view of U.S. President Donald Trump, his ambassador to Canada told a Washington state audience on Monday morning \u2014 comments that drew a rebuke from B.C. Premier David Eby.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'Trump\u2019s tariffs on Canada might be here to stay, U.S. Secretary of Commerce says'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/LUTNICK_PKG_VMS.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t2:12<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTrump\u2019s tariffs on Canada might be here to stay, U.S. Secretary of Commerce says\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Pete Hoesktra was speaking at the Pacific NorthWest Economic Region Foundation summit in Bellevue, Wash., when an audience member asked him about Canadians eschewing travel south of the border in the context of the upcoming FIFA 2026 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s their business \u2014 I don\u2019t like it, but if that\u2019s what they want to do, that\u2019s fine. They want to ban American alcohol; that\u2019s fine. It doesn\u2019t necessarily send real positive signals in terms of their treating us well,\u201d Hokestra responded.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/national.jpg\" alt=\"For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are reasons why the president and some of his team refer to Canada as being mean and nasty to deal with, OK, because of some of those steps.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hoekstra then drew laughs from the crowd when he said he has no problem getting U.S. liquor into Canada, as border officers don\u2019t check his vehicle when he crosses the border.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Eby urged British Columbians to double down on their efforts to buy and travel within Canada in response.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'Carney doubles down with counter tariffs'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GNMREGGIEWASHINGTONWEEKSTILL.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t5:51<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCarney doubles down with counter tariffs\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<ul class=\"l-inlineStories__posts c-posts c-posts--inline \">\n<li class=\"c-posts__item\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11296876\/malcolm-jamal-warner-dead-cosby\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753172116_248_malcolm-jamal-warner.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tMalcolm-Jamal Warner, \u2018Cosby Show\u2019 star, dead at 54\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li class=\"c-posts__item\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11296450\/donald-trump-tariffs-mark-carney-us-senators\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753172116_262_CP174782453-e1753129312697.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\u2018We miss you,\u2019 U.S. senators tell Canada as Lutnick vows tariffs will stay\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cClearly, our efforts are having an impact,\u201d Eby said.\u00a0\u201cSo, I say to my fellow Canadians: Keep it up. Keep buying Canadian. Keep your vacations Canadian.\u00a0We won\u2019t take these attacks our jobs, our economy and our sovereignty, lying down. We\u2019ll stand strong together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>A number of Canadian provinces, including British Columbia and Ontario, have pulled U.S. liquor from their shelves amid the trade dispute and Trump\u2019s repeated musings about making Canada the 51st state, potentially through the use of \u201ceconomic force.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Canadian travel to the U.S. has also plummeted, with the number of visits by land and air falling for six consecutive months.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Monday, a bipartisan delegation of U.S. senators travelled to Ottawa to plead with tourists to return to the U.S. and tell Canadians \u201cwe miss you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Politics<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Canada remains locked in intense negotiations with the United States over a new trade and security deal, and on Sunday, U.S. Commerce Secretary\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/howard-lutnick\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Howard Lutnick<\/a>\u00a0vowed that the tariffs on Canada were here to stay.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president understands that we need to open the markets. Canada is not open to us. They need to open their market. Unless they\u2019re willing to open their market, they\u2019re going to pay a tariff,\u201d Lutnick told CBS\u2019s Face the Nation.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has threatened a new 35 per cent tariff on Canadian products that would take effect on Aug. 1, along with a new 50 per cent tariff on copper and a 200 per cent tariff on pharmaceuticals.<\/p>\n<p>Canada is already dealing with 25 per cent U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Are Canadians \u201cmean and nasty\u201d for refusing to travel to the U.S. and pulling American booze from liquor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":82687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2147,50,80,36732],"class_list":{"0":"post-82686","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-politics","11":"tag-trump-tariffs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114895894895947606","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}