Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy commented on the breakdown of trade negotiations with Canada this weekend on “FOX News Sunday.” <\/p>\n
SHANNON BREAM: Well, listen, they were — they were just in Canada. And there is news this weekend of the trade issue that we have going on. Trade talks falling apart. Obviously, they’re a major partner for us back and forth across the borders. Planes, trains and automobiles. DOT has a lot to do with that. Is there anything in your position as secretary of transportation that you’re thinking about with respect to a tool in this sort of back and forth? DUFFY: Well, listen, we’re great trading partners, right? But Canada gets the benefit of trading with the U.S. more — way more than the U.S. gets the benefit of trading with Canada. It’s a country that doesn’t have a military. It has a country that has a single-payer health care system that’s failing. They have record high euthanasia rates. And so, to think that they’re going to go to war with Donald Trump and actually win that war with the U.S., I think it’s foolish on their part. And again, I think what the president is trying to do with Jamieson Greer, who, by the way, has done an amazing job representing the president and America, is we want fairness for the American worker. And some of our best friends are the worst offenders that treat us the worst. And the fact that we provide their security for them and they take advantage of us, I think President Trump was the first one to go, you know what? That’s not the kind of relationship that friends should have. And so, the president’s calling them out. I think you’re going to see Mark Carney come to the table very, very quickly because it’s going to be devastating for his country. BREAM: Well, nothing on the table as far as talks are concerned. A lot of finger-pointing. DUFFY: Right.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n