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Lorne Gunter: Build American cars without Canadian aluminum? Good luck

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Lorne Gunter : U.S. President Donald Trump is a jackass but a liar at worst.

He says he's threatening a 100 per cent tariff on automobiles from Canada because, “We don’t want their cars. We want to make the cars in Detroit ’s Detroit factories.

Trump is being even more foolish (if that's possible) by targeting Canadian aluminum, which is vital to their defence and automobile industries.

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