Canada’s top trade officials are headed back to the negotiating table Thursday, a day after U.S. President Donald Trump extolled his tariff regime and lobbed insults against Canada.
Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc and Chief Trade Negotiator Janice Charette plan to meet U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer in Washington today at 1 p.m. ET, less than 24 hours after Trump leered at Canada’s “nasty” leadership.
“I love tariffs, right? Because we’ve been screwed by tariffs used against us for years. By China, by Japan, by South Korea, by Germany, by everybody, by Canada,” he said to jeers from the crowd at the Red Rock Casino.
“Canada’s nasty. They are, they’re nasty,” President Trump said at an event in Las Vegas on Wednesday while criticizing U.S. allies over their use of tariffs against the United States.
“I love the people, but they’re nasty, nasty leadership,” Trump said of America’s northern… pic.twitter.com/AjH9FQtioc
— CBS News (@CBSNews) August 5, 2026
