Mark Carney may want to invite the biggest investors in the world to Toronto later this year but the message in Washington is that Canada sucks.

At the Semafor World Economy Forum in the American capital, a meeting that attracted a global who’s who of the business and political world, a top Trump administration official trashed Carney and Canada on Friday.

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Howard Lutnick, Trump’s Commerce Secretary, was asked about the future of the Canada-United States-Mexico-Agreement or CUSMA and the President’s position.

“I think he thinks it’s a bad deal,” Lutnick said, pointing out there are parts of trade with Canada that are vital to the United States, like energy, but other parts they don’t like.

“I think it needs to be reimagined and needs to be readdressed,” he said. “There’s plenty of good in it but there’s a huge amount of bad in it and needs to be reconsidered for benefit of America.”

Trump’s trade guy attacks Canadian strategy

Lutnick went on to say that Canada’s strategy........

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