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Trump, in an early February call, challenged the border treaty between the two countries and told Trudeau he didn’t like their shared water agreements.

The country’s worsening relations with its largest trading partners will heighten the stakes in next year’s World Cup, Trump suggested.

Notably, the border treaty that Trump referred to was established in 1908 and finalized the international boundary between Canada, then a British dominion, and the United States

In another reversal, Trump postponed for a month new tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico that fall under the three nations' free trade deal.

President Trump’s plan to apply 25 percent tariffs on Canadian exports is set to start on Tuesday. They would deal a brutal blow to Canada’s economy.