Former Trump trade rep says Canada will have ‘happy’ outcome from U.S. tariff policy
U.S. President Donald Trump’s former trade representative Bob Lighthizer says Canada will 'benefit' from the United States’ current attempt to overhaul trade around the world – while also claiming the relationship between the two countries 'is not fraught,' despite trade tensions.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s former trade representative Bob Lighthizer says Canada will “benefit” from the United States’ current attempt to overhaul trade around the world – while also claiming the relationship between the two countries “is not fraught,” despite trade tensions.
“If the president is right, and if it works out the way it should work out, we will find ourselves with a manufacturing renaissance in America,” Lighthizer said at the Canada Strong and Free Network conference in Ottawa late Friday in a fireside chat with Mark Mulroney.
“It’s impossible for me to believe that that could happen and that Canada wouldn’t benefit,” he said, later adding that “the outcome for both the United States and for Canada is going to be a very happy one.”