{"id":516,"date":"2025-05-05T23:19:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T23:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/logicalware.net\/?p=516"},"modified":"2025-05-06T19:36:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T19:36:56","slug":"lutnick-skeptical-of-cutting-deal-with-canadas-socialist-regime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/logicalware.net\/index.php\/2025\/05\/05\/lutnick-skeptical-of-cutting-deal-with-canadas-socialist-regime\/","title":{"rendered":"Lutnick skeptical of cutting deal with Canada&#039;s &#039;socialist regime&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Monday that he is skeptical of cutting a trade deal with the Canadian government, calling it a \u201csocialist regime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan we make a deal with Canada?\u201d Fox Business Network\u2019s Larry Kudlow asked on his show &#8220;Kudlow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s really complex,\u201d Lutnick responded. \u201cI mean, this is really complex, because they have been basically feeding off of us for decades upon decades upon decades, right?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have their socialist regime, and it\u2019s basically feeding off of America, I mean, the president calls it out all the time. Why do we make cars in Canada? Why do we do our films in Canada? Come on. So, I think \u2026 it\u2019s going to be a fascinating meeting, I\u2019m glad I\u2019m going to be there listening, but it\u2019s going to be a fascinating meeting tomorrow. I just don\u2019t see how it works out so perfect,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney are set to meet Tuesday amid tensions <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5283912-mark-carney-canada-trump-meeting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">between their respective<\/a> countries over trade.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After securing victory in a recent Canadian election, Carney stated that the U.S. president has \u201cfundamentally changed\u201d the world in the last few months, noting sweeping tariffs and a proposal from Trump to merge Canada with the U.S.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs I\u2019ve been warning for months, America wants our land, our resources, our water, our country,\u201d Carney said in an Ottawa victory speech last month. \u201cThese are not idle threats. President Trump is trying to break us so America can own us. That will never \u2026 ever happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we also must recognize the reality that our world has fundamentally changed,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The Hill has reached out to Carney\u2019s office for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Monday that he is skeptical of cutting a trade deal with the Canadian government, calling it a \u201csocialist regime.\u201d \u201cCan we make a deal with<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/logicalware.net\/index.php\/2025\/05\/05\/lutnick-skeptical-of-cutting-deal-with-canadas-socialist-regime\/\" class=\"readmore\">Continue reading<svg class=\"icon icon-arrow-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\" role=\"img\"> <use href=\"#icon-arrow-right\" xlink:href=\"#icon-arrow-right\"><\/use> <\/svg><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lutnick skeptical of cutting deal with Canada&#039;s &#039;socialist regime&#039;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/logicalware.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/logicalware.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/logicalware.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/logicalware.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/logicalware.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/logicalware.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":517,"href":"http:\/\/logicalware.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions\/517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/logicalware.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/logicalware.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/logicalware.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/logicalware.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}