Former PM Harper pushes back against Trump comments on U.S. podcast [Video]

Former Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper is weighing in on recent rhetoric, calling U.S. president-elect Donald Trump’s issues with this country “out of sync.”

“I have a real problem with some of the things Donald Trump is saying,” Harper said on an episode of the Standpoint with Gabe Groisman podcast posted Monday.

“If you want a better deal or whatever, fine, but it doesn’t sound like the pronouncements of someone who’s a friend, a partner and an ally.”

Describing himself as probably the most pro-American prime minister in the history of our country, Harper pushed back on Trump’s recent claims about Canada.

Harper said he was “shocked” by some of the things the president-elect said.

Harper said there is no significant migrant flow happening from Canada to the U.S., and that drugs, guns and crime are flowing north, not south.

He also said he thinks most Canadians “continue to hope …