President Donald Trump, in his virtual address at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Thursday, insisted that the United States does not need Canada’s oil, gas, vehicles, or lumber, and did not waiver on his threat to enact stiff tariffs.

“Canada’s been very tough to deal with over the years, and it’s not fair that we should have a $200 billion or $250 billion deficit,” he told the world leaders in his first address to them in his second term of office, reports CBC.

“We don’t need them to make our cars, and they make a lot of them,” he said. “We don’t need their lumber because we have our own forests. We don’t need their oil and gas. We have more than anybody.” 

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