{"id":45110,"date":"2018-10-22T12:04:27","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T12:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=45110"},"modified":"2018-10-22T12:04:27","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T12:04:27","slug":"working-with-trump-not-always-simple-says-trudeau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/working-with-trump-not-always-simple-says-trudeau\/","title":{"rendered":"Working with Trump \u2018not always simple, says Trudeau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Montreal<br \/>\nCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said working with US President Donald Trump is \u201cnot always simple,\u201d as he welcomed the successful renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on an episode of Quebec\u2019s most popular talk show, \u201cTout Le Monde En Parle,\u201d broadcast Sunday Trudeau said he had done his job of \u201cstanding up for Canadians\u201d in agreeing the USMCA trade pact with the US, Canada and Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about his relationship with Trump, Trudeau cautiously acknowledged it is \u201cnot always simple.\u201d \u201cHe knows it and so do I. We are not aligned on many things and it is sometimes difficult to find common ground, but we managed to do it fairly well,\u201d Trudeau said.<\/p>\n<p>Relations between the two leaders took a hit in June, when Trump taunted Trudeau as \u201cvery dishonest &amp; weak\u201d and \u201cmeek and mild\u201d as he left a G7 summit in Canada that the prime minister had hosted.<\/p>\n<p>Trudeau also defended cannabis legalisation during the interview, a key campaign promise that came into effect October 17.<\/p>\n<p>He argued 90 years of prohibition had not worked, and only lined the pockets of organised criminals.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, ahead of his upcoming campaign for next year\u2019s elections, Trudeau vowed to tackle climate change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montreal Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said working with US President Donald Trump is \u201cnot always simple,\u201d as he welcomed the successful renegotiation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45111,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45112,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45110\/revisions\/45112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}