Lootnick: Canada has become an American state “the best way” to integrate economies

Trade Minister Howard Lootnick said on Wednesday that Canada has become an American country “the best way” to integrate the economies of the two countries.

“The best way, the president said, the best way to incorporate Canada’s economies already and the United States is to become Canada our mandate and 51. Lottenic said in” Varney & Co.

Lutnick’s comments come amid a modern tension between the United States and Canada on the definitions. On Tuesday, President Trump said he would raise the steps and aluminum tariffs planned against Canada due to an additional cost of electricity from the Ontario government.

Dog Ford, Prime Minister of Ontario later on Tuesday, said he would not apply with additional fees in the wake of the “olive branch” of the United States, a meeting scheduled on Thursday with Lottennik.

Trump previously suggested that being Canada “must become the 51st country”, but Mark Carney, the prime minister who will be close to the United States neighbor in the north, “will never be part of America in any way, shape or shape.”

“But think about this for one second, why do American cars are made in Canada? … These jobs should be in America. This is what the president thinks, and this is what he says and this is what will be implemented,” Lootnick said on Wednesday.

“So the basic point is that Canada will have to work with us to really integrate their economy. As the president said, they must consider the amazing advantages of being the 51st state of the United States [America]He added.

The hill continued to Global Affairs Canada for comment.