Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said yesterday there'd be no trade deal without protection for Canada's "cultural industries." Those seem to be mostly publishing and broadcast. Some in the U.S. are incorrectly viewing this as a deal-breaker, in reality it's no such thing.
Trump is hated by most of the U.S. media and Hollywood, they say so at every opportunity. He disses them right back every time he holds a rally.
How excited will President Trump be to help out Hollywood and the legacy media located mostly in dark blue NY and CA? That's who would suffer from continued Canadian ownership of media up north. Trudeau has asked for what should be a "gimme," an easy concession for President Trump.
Given an opportunity to go to bat for the media, or let it slide, which do you think he'll choose? IMHO he'll let Trudeau have that one, thinking all the while "Screw them, I'm doing the Trump-hating U.S. media no favors." I do think he'll want a quid pro quo, something with red state jobs attached to it.
