And on the week of Sept. 26, as NAFTA talks with Canada continued to limp ahead, the U.S. president said the two countries’ negotiators were “not getting along” and that his team does not like Canada’s representative.
He did not specify which representative he was referring to, but Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland is the political lead for Canada’s negotiating team and is the direct counterpart to U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer.
Trump has said so many perplexing things about Canada, we decided to compile this gallery.
Heed this warning before proceeding though: The things said in some of these quotes are factually incorrect or are misrepresentations of facts.
The U.S. president’s comment about a widespread Canadian custom of smuggling scuffed shoes was incorrect.
Economists say Trump’s claims that trade between our two countries tipped heavily in Canada’s favour are skewed and inaccurate.
And it was British colonists who burned down the White House in 1814, not Canadians.