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President Donald Trump threatens new tariffs on Canadian goods amid a solid jobs report showing 151,000 new jobs added last month.See the story in the video above”These are incredible numbers and they’re, they’re very early,” President Trump said in the Oval Office, referring to the new Labor Department report.The report highlights gains in health care, finance, and transportation. The president also pointed to growth in manufacturing, saying the majority of new jobs were in the private sector.”We’re trying to shrink government and grow the private sector,” Trump said.However, the report also shows a slight increase in the unemployment rate, now at 4.1%.Federal government employment decreased, and economists expect the mass layoffs to have a bigger impact on the next monthly report.”I think when we see some confirmation that these cuts are having an impact on the job market, that can only be taken as bad news, because this is what …

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