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Victor Davis Hanson: Canada Is Picking the Wrong Fight With Trump

Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos.

Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal.  

We’re in another spat with our northern neighbor, Canada, kind of a psychodrama again. We were at the penultimate stage of a new trade agreement, just expanding on the prior trade agreements when, at the last moment, Prime Minister Mark Carney pulled out, and he cited that there were unfair demands that adjudicated whether Canada, as a sovereign nation, could trade as it wished and import and export as it wished. 

And then he said there were cultural appropriations, that we were demanding certain curtailments of the full expression of Quebec culture. We like to have good relations with Canada. They speak the same language. We come out of the same original font from the English-speaking world in England. 

We remember the great relations we had with Prime Minister [Brian] Mulroney during the Bush administration. I think Stephen Harper, who was the model of a prime minister between 2006 and 2015, was the acme of Canadian-American relations. But right now, Donald Trump got very angry, and he said that he was going to rename Lake Ontario, one of the five Great Lakes, Lake America. 

I don’t think that’s gonna hold just because 60% of the water acreage of the five Great Lakes rests in Canada. Lake Ontario itself, I think, is 55% Canada, and it’s been Ontario for a long time. But it’s symbolic of the anger that’s building. Carney was not quite honest in what he said to the Canadian people. 

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First of all, Canada runs a chronic $50 billion surplus. Sometimes it goes up to 70, sometimes it approaches 100, but it’s pretty much solid in that territory of 50 to 70, no matter what happens. And under this administration, it knew that the United States wanted symmetrical trade, roughly, you know, $10 or $15 billion either way. 

So, that was the original and remaining issue. The other thing that was very, I think,........

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