The United States ambassador, Pete Hoekstra, says that the renewed state rhetoric of President Donald Trump can be taken as a compliment, which suggests that this is how he is seen by Prime Minister Mark Carney.
In an interview with CBC’s Power and politicsHoekstra suggested that Carney saw the comments as a “term of affection”, while clarifying the leader of Canada “did not use this word exactly.”
When asked if Canadians should also see the State’s talk 51 as a term of love, Hoekstra said: “They can see him as they want.”
In an interview with Fox News during the weekend, Trump repeated his belief that Canada should be an American state.
“Canada depends completely on the United States, we don’t trust Canada,” he said.
The Trump ambassador to Ottawa says that these comments must be considered with the way the two leaders have been well since Carney became prime minister.
“President Trump does not invite people to his team who does not like, who does not trust, who does not respect. You know that he wants a strong team,” said Hoesktra in an interview with the guest presenter Catherine Cullen a day before Canada’s day.
The United States ambassador to Canada, Pete Hoekstra, says that the president’s team had made it clear that the Canada Digital Services Tax was a ‘red line’, and that stopping Canada from the ‘back of the line’ for a commercial agreement of the United States and returned it to the front. Hoekstra states that Prime Minister Mark Carney characterizes the comments of state 51 as “a term of love.”
The rhetoric resurfaced this weekend when the United States briefly ended all commercial discussions with Canada on the Digital Services Tax (DST), which would have seen US companies such as Amazon, Google, Meta, Uber and Airbnb pay three percent in the income of Canadian users.
The policy, with the collection of taxes that will begin on Monday, would have applied retroactively, leaving US companies with an American invoice of $ 2 billion.
Canada quickly terminated the DST on Sunday night, which raided the way for Canada and the United States to resume trade negotiations on Monday morning. Carney told reporters that the two countries take into account the deadline previously agreed on July 21 during commercial conversations.
The US press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, told journalists that Canada had “collapsed” Trump to rescind the tax.
In response to a journalist’s question about commercial conversations with Canada, the White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said that Prime Minister Mark Carney “gave” the president of the United States, Donald Trump, after the latter said on Friday that he was finishing discussions due to digital services tax. The Canadian government announced Sunday night that it would terminate the tax.
Hoekstra told him Power and politics That “knock down” is not how it would describe it, but that Canada knew that the DST was a “red line” for the United States
The tax caused Canada “to move from the front of the line to the back of the line” in Trump’s negotiations with the countries. Canada is now “back in the front of the line,” he said.
The way forward
With the eliminated DST, Trump has other long -standing objections that could become barriers to progress.
Trump repeated his complaints about Canada’s pronounced tariffs about imports of eggs, dairy and poultry during the weekend, which says disadvantage to US farmers. Many of the rates that often appoint are rarely applied, if ever, apply.
Just before breaking during the summer, the Parliament approved the bill C-202, that the Government’s hamstrings to make concessions that affect the management of the agricultural offer during commercial negotiations.
Hoekstra said he does not see C-202 as an obstacle to an agreement.
He said he has a “strong belief” that “the prime minister could probably find a way to make Parliament do [his] I will, like the president today “to reach an agreement.
“Prime Ministers and Presidents have a lot of power.”
