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Howard Lutnick: “We negotiated that Canadians approached us and said come on…”

Featuring: Howard Lutnick, Secretary of Commerce | National

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Commerce Secretary Lutnick on AI, Anthropic and Canada Talks

Published | Video Starts at 09:07

He said the United States kept moving the goalposts. You see it very differently. Is, is there a chance to figure this out or is this dead? No, what what happened was We negotiated that Canadians approached us and said come on, let's get try to get an interim deal done. So we worked, you know, before we start doing the big US MCA sort of big, big thing. And we sat with them six weeks of negotiations and we hammered out a deal. (09:07–09:14)

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Asserts that Canada approached the U.S. to negotiate an interim trade deal.

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