--- title: Donald Trump: Canada 'Outsmarted Our Politicians for Years' description: President Donald Trump made pointed comments about Canada while signing an executive order to promote agriculture Tuesday canonical: https://time.com/4754776/donald-trump-canada-outsmarted-dairy-trade-lumber/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-04-25T20:16:36.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T04:35:57.901Z article:section: Politics og:title: President Trump: Canada Has 'Outsmarted Our Politicians for Years' og:description: Trump also announced he will impose a tariff on Canadian lumber imports og:url: https://time.com/4754776/donald-trump-canada-outsmarted-dairy-trade-lumber/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blteb96ddca2d52094b/6988ca8d7cdbac38a0d580fe/gettyimages-672966582.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3500 og:image:height: 1969 og:image:alt: trump-canada-outsmarted og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: President Trump: Canada Has 'Outsmarted Our Politicians for Years' twitter:description: Trump also announced he will impose a tariff on Canadian lumber imports twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blteb96ddca2d52094b/6988ca8d7cdbac38a0d580fe/gettyimages-672966582.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # President Trump: Canada Has 'Outsmarted Our Politicians for Years' > Sponsored content. 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It explains the politics, personalities and power dynamics behind the headlines, three times a week. #### Where can I get analysis of Washington politics by email? D.C. Brief is TIME's free Washington politics newsletter, available at time.com/newsletters. It is written by a TIME senior correspondent who covers the capital full time. #### Who writes TIME's D.C. Brief? Philip Elliott, a senior correspondent at TIME, writes D.C. Brief. #### Is D.C. Brief free? Yes. D.C. Brief is free at time.com/newsletters. by [Lisa Marie Segarra](https://time.com/author/lisa-marie-segarra/) ## Lisa Marie Segarra Apr 25, 2017 8:16 PM UTC  President Donald Trump signs the Executive Order Promoting Agriculture and Rural Prosperity in America as Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue looks on during a roundtable with farmers in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on April 25, 2017 in Washington, DC. President Donald Trump signs the Executive Order Promoting Agriculture and Rural Prosperity in America as Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue looks on during a roundtable with farmers in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on April 25, 2017 in Washington, DC. Photograph by Olivier Douliery—Getty/Pool by [Lisa Marie Segarra](https://time.com/author/lisa-marie-segarra/) ## Lisa Marie Segarra Apr 25, 2017 8:16 PM UTC President Donald Trump continued to have harsh words for [Canada](http://time.com/4729984/canada-mexico-us-fifa-world-cup-bid/) while signing an executive order to promote agriculture Tuesday. “People don’t realize Canada’s been very tough on the United States…they’ve outsmarted our politicians for years,” Trump said. His remarks come after announcing he would impose a [24 percent tariff](http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/24/investing/canada-lumber-tariff-trump/) on Canada for lumber shipped into the United States. Trump criticized Canada for what he called [“very unfair” practices against the U.S.’s dairy industry.](http://time.com/4745273/donald-trump-canada-dairy-trade-industry/) Governors Scott Walker of Wisconsin and Andrew Cuomo of New York wrote to him previously asking him to address Canada’s “protectionist dairy trade policies.” He touched on the issue again Tuesday saying, “This has been going on for a while and we’re not going to put up with it.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4754776/donald-trump-canada-outsmarted-dairy-trade-lumber/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4754776/donald-trump-canada-outsmarted-dairy-trade-lumber/"},"headline":"President Trump: Canada Has 'Outsmarted Our Politicians for Years'","datePublished":"2017-04-25T20:16:36.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T04:35:57.901Z","description":"Trump's comments come after announcing he would impose a tariff on the country for lumber imports","url":"https://time.com/4754776/donald-trump-canada-outsmarted-dairy-trade-lumber/","keywords":["White House","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blteb96ddca2d52094b/6988ca8d7cdbac38a0d580fe/gettyimages-672966582.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Lisa Marie Segarra","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/lisa-marie-segarra/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blteb96ddca2d52094b/6988ca8d7cdbac38a0d580fe/gettyimages-672966582.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"trump-canada-outsmarted","caption":"President Trump Signs Executive Order Promoting Agriculture And Rural Prosperity In America","creditText":"Photograph by Olivier Douliery—Getty/Pool","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/white-house/","name":"White House"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4754776/donald-trump-canada-outsmarted-dairy-trade-lumber/","name":"President Trump: Canada Has 'Outsmarted Our Politicians for Years'"}}]}] ```