Donald Trump doesn't do anything in good faith, much less negotiate complex trade deals. This is why his nonsense earlier this week with regard to "getting rid of NAFTA" and doing a deal with Mexico was bull, and it's why it's likely he leaked his off the record remarks about Canada in order to blow off any hope of negotiating with them.
The Toronto Star reports that Canada walked away from the table after reading remarks which made it obvious Trump was not negotiating in good faith.
In comments Trump wanted to be “off the record,” the U.S. president told Bloomberg News reporters on Thursday that he is not making any compromises at all in the talks with Canada — but that he cannot say this publicly because “it’s going to be so insulting they’re not going to be able to make a deal.”
“Here’s the problem. If I say no — the answer’s no. If I say no, then you’re going to put that, and it’s going to be so insulting they’re not going to be able to make a deal ... I can’t kill these people,” Trump said of the Canadian government.
In another remark he did not want published, Trump said that the possible deal with Canada would be “totally on our terms.” He suggested he was scaring the Canadians into submission by repeatedly threatening to impose tariffs.
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