Trump's victory adds to Trudeau's challenges in Canada

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : "Trudeau, who has been in power since 2015, congratulated Trump on Wednesday and said the friendship between the two nations was the envy of the world.
46% : Trump first took office in 2017 vowing to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, the trilateral trade deal with Mexico and Canada, complaining that trading partners were taking advantage of the U.S.After 18 months of sometimes rancorous talks, which at one point saw the United States and Canada imposing sanctions on each other's products, the pact was reborn as the U.S.-Mexico-Canada (USMCA) deal.
43% : Trump said on Oct. 11 he would use an existing USMCA clause to start renegotiating the treaty in 2026.
43% : Canada staved off the worst during the USMCA talks by proactively sending officials and politicians to dozens of U.S. states to highlight the benefits of free trade.
41% : Policy clashes seem inevitable, both domestically and internationally, especially if Trump follows through on his plan to deport millions of people living in the U.S. illegally.
30% : "The implications for Canada are, in my view, dramatic," he said, predicting Trump would insist Ottawa spend far more on defense.
26% : In June 2018, Trump walked out of a G7 summit in Quebec and blasted the Canadian leader for being "very dishonest and weak.
23% : Trump called Trudeau "a far left lunatic" in 2022 for requiring truck drivers crossing the border to be vaccinated against COVID.

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