Fact-checking Donald Trump’s claims about Canada in his global tariff speech [Video]

Standing in the Rose Garden on Wednesday afternoon to unveil his new reciprocal tariffs, U.S. President Donald Trump again falsely claimed that the U.S. subsidizes Canada by hundreds of billions of dollars every year and misrepresented Canada’s tariffs on U.S. dairy products.

“We subsidize a lot of countries and keep them going and keep them in business,” Trump said. “In the case of Mexico, it’s $300 billion. In the case of Canada, it’s close to $200 billion a year.”

That claim — which Trump has routinely made going as far back as December — is untrue in multiple ways. What the U.S. president was referring to is his country’s trade deficit with Canada, meaning Canada exports more to the United States than the U.S. exports to Canada.

WATCH | Trump announces global reciprocal tariffs, spares Canada:U.S. President Donald Trump has announced sweeping new tariffs, including 10 per cent levies on virtually all imports, and significantly higher reciprocal tariffs against more than 60 countries, but Canada and Mexico were spared for now.

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