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Why the U.S. trade rep wants to punish Canada economically

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer grew up in a mobile home in Paradise, Calif. He insists that it wasn’t in a mobile home park, it was just a mobile home. That should tell you something about the man charged with implementing Donald Trump’s trade policies.

His mother was a Wells Fargo teller and his father moved from job to job, including a stint in plastic injection moulding, “before those jobs went to Asia.” A “National Geographic” subscription was the family’s window on the wider world.

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