Canada wants all the perks of open trade with the US, but they’re leaving the back door wide open for Chinese cars and steel

"They're going to import cars from China. They've talked about having investment in cars from China. We're obviously not going to accept that. We don't sell Chinese cars in America.

Their economic program, which they're entitled to have... it has a lot of inconsistency with what President Trump is trying to do. And so until those inconsistencies are adequately resolved I think we'll just be where we are.

They want to be globalists with the EU. We're against that. We want to have more manufacturing here. We want to reverse the negative things that happened with NAFTA or things that could have happened with TPP. So as long as their trade policy is different, then it's going to be hard to have a completely open relationship with them."

Canada wants all the perks of open trade with the US, but they’re leaving the back door wide open for Chinese cars and steel. So I asked @USTradeRep Jamieson Greer: have we actually made any inroads on stopping Canada from acting as a proxy for Beijing? "They're going to import cars from China. They've talked about having investment in cars from China. We're obviously not going to accept that. We don't sell Chinese cars in America. Their economic program, which they're entitled to have... it has a lot of inconsistency with what President Trump is trying to do. And so until those inconsistencies are adequately resolved I think we'll just be where we are. They want to be globalists with the EU. We're against that. We want to have more manufacturing here. We want to reverse the negative things that happened with NAFTA or things that could have happened with TPP. So as long as their trade policy is different, then it's going to be hard to have a completely open relationship with them."

— Glenn Beck (@glennbeck)October 15, 2026

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