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Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, President Trump was asked about ending trade deal talks with Canada.
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00:00Straighten out their act.
00:02Is there anything in Canada can do to change your mind about this?
00:05No, they put a tax on companies that were American companies that they shouldn't.
00:09A very severe tax.
00:12And, yeah, I guess they could remove it.
00:15They will.
00:16But I don't really, I mean, it doesn't matter to me.
00:18We have all the cards.
00:20We have all the cards.
00:21You know, we do a lot of business with Canada, but relatively little.
00:25They do most of their businesses with us.
00:27And when you have that circumstance, you treat people better.
00:31They've had farmers that are getting like 300, 400, 200 percent in tariffs.
00:38Nobody's ever seen anything like it.
00:39We have cases.
00:41You don't read this and the people don't report.
00:43But they charge us 400 percent on some dairy products.
00:49400 percent.
00:50Nobody writes that.
00:52It's not fair to our farmers.
00:54And we've got to protect our farmers.

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