{"id":6139,"date":"2026-08-27T15:44:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T15:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=6139"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:44:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T15:44:38","slug":"wilbur-ross-led-trade-talks-with-canada-in-trumps-first-term-he-says-its-more-difficult-now-because-canadians-simply-dont-like-the-u-s-as-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=6139","title":{"rendered":"Wilbur Ross led trade talks with Canada in Trump\u2019s first term\u2014he says it\u2019s more difficult now because Canadians simply don\u2019t like the U.S. as much"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The current negotiations are all the more difficult because of the fundamental shift in sentiment\u2013and as a result, political will\u2014of Canadians toward their American neighbors, Ross said.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=6137\">We laid him off. Then we hired him back<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Canadians have adopted a very negative attitude toward the U.S. in general, and we can argue, is that justified?\u00a0Is it not? It doesn\u2019t matter. There\u2019s been a real sea change [and] that\u2019s gonna be a complication because\u2014almost independently of whatever proposal the U.S. might make\u2014there\u2019s probably a political advantage to people in Canada who oppose\u00a0it,\u201d Ross told <em>Fortune<\/em> in an exclusive interview. <\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Evidence isn\u2019t scarce as to why Canadians have a newfound distaste for the White House. Last week, the Canadian press reported a leaked audio of Vice President JD Vance at a private function in which he ridiculed Carney as both \u201csweet\u201d and \u201chilarious.\u201d Vance reportedly said that Carney \u201ccomes in and puffs his chest out and says, \u2018I\u2019m going to, like, out-tough Donald Trump.\u201d\u2018<\/p>\n<p>Trump has also volleyed insults in the direction of the Prime Minister\u2019s office and his people. The president has continually referred to Canada as the \u201c51st state\u201d of the U.S. and recently suggested renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America\u2014a tactic he also deployed when negotiating with his southern neighbors in Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Needles over sovereignty are guaranteed to get a reaction out of Canada, something Trump knows, Ross suggests.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201c[Trump] sometimes speaks metaphorically, and I think what was at the core of the 51st state was another way of articulating Canada\u2019s dependence on the U.S.,\u201d Ross suggests.\u00a0\u201cJust mechanically, how would we ever do that? If you put it up for a plebiscite, at least at present, I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any chance the Canadian public would vote for it.\u00a0Would you invade them?\u00a0I don\u2019t see it.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=6135\">Despite having a net worth of $400 million, Kevin O\u2019Leary still shops at Walmart for $29 jeans: \u2018I\u2019m always looking for a great deal\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>A standoff<\/h2>\n<p>The issues that the U.S. and Canada are debating are nothing new, Ross said: Defense spending, dairy levies, and transshipments\u2014whereby imports from places like China bypass U.S. duties by coming through a neighboring nation.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Trump wants new agreements on these issues, Ross said, but he believes the White House won\u2019t go much further out of its way to secure them. The former cabinet secretary believes the deal offered by the U.S. was surprisingly favorable to Canada.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>If there were to be further negotiations, Ross added, he believes the impetus would need to come from the Canadian side. \u201cI don\u2019t see the U.S. taking the initiative,\u201d Ross said. <\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Carney would clearly disagree; the former Bank of England governor maintains his team was \u201cpragmatic, patient, and persistent,\u201d adding: \u201cWe have pursued every opportunity to reach an agreement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A return to the negotiating table may be prompted by consumer price increases: Both Canada and the U.S. are facing elevated inflation, in part due to the conflict in the Middle East, which is choking the oil supply. Ross, perhaps unsurprisingly, suggests Canada may be the first to buckle because \u201ctheir economy is so much smaller than ours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=6133\">\u2018You only get like two hours of alcohol or two hours of cigarettes a day\u2019: Former Meta engineer on child safety settlement<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump&#8217;s former commerce secretary, Wilbur Ross, on the trade negotiations between the US and Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[602],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-negotiations"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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