Chrystia Freeland pointed to Canada's experience with incoming U.S. president Donald Trump, as well as alignment on Chinese tariffs, as helping Ottawa navigate trade negotiations.
Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Freeland spoke to reporters Friday after the first meeting of the newly revived cabinet committee on Canada -U.S. relations, which she will again chair.
“What’s important about that whole experience is that Canada and the United States agreed, at the end of the day, that it didn’t make sense for our two countries to have those tariffs imposed,” she said. “Canada is very aligned with the United States in that respect. And that’s a final area where I see a firm foundation for our work together,” she said.that American officials on both sides of the aisle were “pleased” that Canadian trade policy had aligned with the U.S. on China.
“If we combine that with an effort to increase our mining capacity and be that supplier of choice to the Americans, I think we could come out of this in a much better position.”
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