“We haven’t made Canada more competitive, we have higher tax rates, much higher taxes than the Americans. We have capital gains that have gone up and that dissuades investment especially from Americans to Canadian companies and investors and we just have an environment where we haven’t got the stuff we have out of the ground and in to world markets, like our oil, our gas.”
Williams is repeating that what the country needs is an election as soon as possible saying a new face at the negotiating table is necessary to ease any economic pain.
“You know a lot of trade deals, we talk about the rules and what happens but it ultimately comes down to leader-to-leader negotiations making sure that we’re helping one another, that their economies are aligned, that they are not a threat.”
Williams says the trade war is the biggest issue facing the country in over half a century.
