OTTAWA — The Americans weren’t happy. But Howard Lutnick seemed furious.
It was early March 2025, the final days of Justin Trudeau’s prime ministership, and the trade war with U.S. President Donald Trump had only just begun. Ottawa had struck back with retaliatory tariffs against the first volley of U.S. import duties. Two days later, Trudeau and his advisers gathered in his office for a phone call with the American president, according to two Canadian officials with knowledge of what happened, who agreed to speak about sensitive discussions on the condition they weren’t identified.
The Star one of the most reliable LPC typists is still peddling the Carney line that the Demon Lutnick kiboshed the trade deal.
“So when they say the Commerce Secretary Lutnick stepped in and everything got screwed up, that’s not true?”
Greer “That’s not true” @jamiesongreer https://t.co/eFD3HNdR6c
— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) September 3, 2026
