{"id":2780,"date":"2026-08-21T10:40:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T10:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topmovingpross.com\/?p=2780"},"modified":"2026-08-21T10:40:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T10:40:17","slug":"canadian-provincial-leader-says-trump-is-a-bad-person-as-canada-weighs-concessions-for-trade-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topmovingpross.com\/?p=2780","title":{"rendered":"Canadian provincial leader says Trump is a \u2018bad person\u2019 as Canada weighs concessions for trade deal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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TORONTO (AP) \u2014 The premier of a Canadian province launched a blistering attack on U.S. President Donald Trump<\/span> on Thursday, calling him a \u201cbad person\u201d and \u201cnot to be trusted\u201d and urging Canada to keep fighting rather than rush to make concessions in trade talks with Washington.<\/p>\n

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Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew said Canada has leverage in the talks even as his province weighs restoring U.S. alcohol sales at Prime Minister Mark Carney\u2019s urging to help secure a deal that would avert threatened 50% U.S. tariffs.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cEverybody knows the American president by now, he\u2019s erratic, he\u2019s irresponsible, and he\u2019s not to be trusted. And this is the person that we were supposed to make a deal with, and we\u2019re going to make additional concessions for it. That\u2019s why I say you can\u2019t make a good deal with a bad person, because who\u2019s to say it\u2019s not going to be undone?\u201d Kinew said. <\/p>\n

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Dominic LeBlanc, the federal minister responsible for Canada-U.S. trade, said Thursday the two countries were close to finalizing an agreement after he returned to Washington to meet again with U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re very close. We continue to make progress,\u201d he said, adding that Canadian officials would remain in Washington to keep working on the deal. Trump has called the emerging agreement \u201cvery fair\u201d to both sides, while tariffs on about $20 billion worth of Canadian imports have been postponed until 12:01 a.m. Saturday. Neither side has released the full terms.<\/p>\n

Despite his criticism of Trump, Kinew said Manitoba may go along with Carney\u2019s request as part of a \u201cTeam Canada\u201d approach. But he urged consumers to keep buying Canadian even if U.S. products return to provincial liquor stores. Other provincial leaders, including the premiers of Saskatchewan and Nova Scotia, have publicly backed the direction of Carney\u2019s negotiation. <\/p>\n

Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Tony Wakeham said all premiers agreed during Wednesday\u2019s call with Carney to return U.S. alcohol to store shelves, although not every premier has publicly confirmed that position.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI think we should fight. I think Donald Trump is very weak. I think America is weaker around the world today than it was a year ago. He\u2019s about to get slaughtered in the midterms and the cost of living is the number one issue and he\u2019s completely out of touch with the cost of living of Americans,\u201d Kinew said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got the upper hand. They are back on their heels right now. They are coming to us for a deal right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Kinew said he understood Carney\u2019s request to mean that restoring U.S. alcohol sales was effectively necessary to complete the deal. The provincial bans on U.S. alcohol have been a particular irritant for the Trump administration, which has pressed Canada to remove restrictions that sharply reduced American liquor sales.<\/p>\n

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