Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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As the trade war intensifies, the Trump administration has been making a lot of claims about Canada and its economy that don’t stack up. For The National, Erica Johnson asks CBC senior business correspondent Peter Armstrong to sort through the facts.

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