Trump adviser Peter Navarro says his disparaging comments about Canadian soldiers who served alongside Americans in Afghanistan were taken out of context, despite being recorded on audio and published in a new book.
Navarro, an economist serving as director of the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy for U.S. President Donald Trump,where more than 158 Canadian soldiers died and more than 40,000 served over the 12-year operation following the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
"Were they doing us a favour, or were they brought into the idea they needed to do that as part of the global effort against terrorists?” Navarro says. In a statement to CTV News on Wednesday, Navarro says he was talking about trade grievances when the military was brought up."The discussion itself centered around the fact that while the United States and Canada have strong shared national security interests in, for example, the war on terror, there are sharp trade differences between us.
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