A senior adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump says there is no truth to a media report saying he wants to expel Canada out of the Five Eyes intelligence sharing partnership.
Peter Navarro, assistant to the president and director of the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy, made the comments in Washington on Feb. 25 in reaction to an anonymously sourced report from the Financial Times published earlier that day.
The media report said Navarro sought to increase pressure on Canada as Trump talks about turning Canada into the 51st U.S. state. The report did not mention exactly what the pressure would seek to achieve....