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Geoff Russ: Fine, don't trust Carney, but why believe anything Trump says?

Opacity from Ottawa doesn't justify thuggery from Washington

Prime Minister Mark Carney has been evasive and unreliable, if not blatantly self-serving, when it comes to discussing his negotiations with Washington. We learned that when his government lied about the reworked Gordie Howe Bridge negotiations earlier this summer.

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However, the federal government’s own disregard for the truth does not automatically validate the version of events put forward by the Americans. Taking what Donald Trump’s officials say at face value is crass credulity at the worst possible time.

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Let there be no question about whether Carney was right to walk away from the latest eleventh-hour revisions to the Canada-U.S. trade deal. The White House wanted Canada to agree to permanent, supposedly favourable, tariffs while effectively ceding our own freedom to strike deals abroad.

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