He also widened his attack, saying, that "included in there is lumber, timber and energy. So we're going to have to get to the negotiating table with Canada very, very quickly".
Trump's sudden embrace of a harder line is a sharp reversal from a few weeks ago.
Contrast that with what the president had to say on the heels of his first face-to-face meeting with Trudeau less than two months ago and consider that there were no major public disagreements between the two governments over the interval.
"Suddenly everyone was pointing the finger at Canada but that's not really what's going on".
Somewhat predictably, no amount of prime ministerial appeasement is turning out to be enough to keep Canada on the good side of the Trump White House and off the president's ever-changing hit list.
He provided no rationale for his complaints. US lawmakers remain miffed their industry lost court cases in NAFTA's dispute-settlement system and want the relevant chapter, 19, scrapped or overhauled in a future NAFTA.
Just last week, US processor Grassland Dairy Products cancelled the contracts of 75 USA producers, blaming lost business with Canada.
On dairy, he offered a scintilla of detail. In Canada, Trump said, "some very unfair things have happened to our dairy farmers and others". "And I don't think any dairy farmer in Wisconsin or anywhere else for that matter expects any action either". "It's a disgrace", he said.
Schumer said he is working with the president, House Speaker Paul Ryan and other stakeholders to develop a plan to tackle the issue that has left dairy farmers in Wisconsin and NY without a market for their product.
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The White House will rely on what policy wonks call "dynamic scoring" to deliver the good news. A White House spokeswoman didn't immediately respond to a request for comment from The Post .
It was a far cry from the tune Trump was singing in February.
Hargreaves says he's impressed by how Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has handled the situation, demonstrating in depth knowledge of the benefits of supply management.
Even former President Obama privately complained to Trudeau that the country's policies were harming United States exporters, according to the Canadian Press.
"I wasn't going to do this", Trump said from the Oval Office.
In fact, Trump suggested he may "get rid of NAFTA once and for all". "Rules, regulations, different things have changed".
"For all sorts of reasons, we're striking while the opportunity is ripe, to showcase, to take companies with us to promote them", said the official, who wasn't authorized to publicly discuss details of the trip. His plan to renegotiate NAFTA - and to walk away from it if the renegotiation didn't serve America's interests - was widely met in Canada with indignation and outrage, as if we had an entitlement to the USA market.
Already the uncertainty has caused some businesses to pause investments in Canada, according to the Bank of Canada. At the time, the president said they would be only "tweaking" NAFTA.
In a very characteristic manner, President Trump criticized Canada's milk policy on Thursday, April 20 during an executive-order signing ceremony for something completely unrelated.
"Diversification is part of the solution to that", Canadian International Trade Minister François-Philippe Champagne told Xinhua in an interview here Thursday.
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