Trump: Canada Doesn’t Have Anything The US Wants

Bloomberg News reports:

Donald Trump’s claim that the U.S. doesn’t need anything from Canada is “simply false,” said Jonathan Wilkinson, Canada’s energy minister and a potential candidate in the contest to replace Justin Trudeau as prime minister.

The U.S. doesn’t have easy alternatives to Canadian crude oil, uranium, potash and other critical minerals, Wilkinson said. And he warned that nothing is off the table when it comes to potential Canadian trade retaliation, including export taxes.

Trump repeated his pledge to put “very serious” tariffs on all Canadian imports. “We don’t need anything they have,” the president-elect told reporters about Canada.

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Trump on Canada: We don’t need their fuel or energy or oil and gas we don’t need anything that they have. pic.twitter.com/8xLaIQq1Or

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