Lutnick states that medium and heavy-duty truck issues were raised Friday at 4 o'clock during trade negotiations.
“The words medium and heavy-duty trucks were raised in these trade negotiations on Friday at 4 o’clock,”
Lutnick denies ever discussing French language or Quebec dialect issues with Canadian negotiators.
“They wanted to walk away. This is politics only. If you think I ever said the words French, do I care about how the Quebecois speak? I mean, what could matter less to America? We don’t care. So the fact is, we never thought those words up.”
Lutnick claims medium and heavy-duty truck issues were introduced late Friday to derail negotiations after ten meetings with LeBlanc where they were never mentioned.
“I met with [Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic] LeBlanc 10 times… [and] these were not raised. These were not part of it. It’s a different thing. This is medium and heavy trucks… That’s a construction product. That’s a different. It’s a whole different category. It was never raised. These were things they put in in order to make it end.”