228. figure 56 illustrates the distributions of goods and services across the major u.s. of 2016. all countries showing a surplus and offsetting a u.s. deficit. and as we said on page 11, there is the president's signature. so when he spoke with prime minister trudeau, he was unaware of the fact that he only signed two weeks before. justin trudeau is right, the u.s. did not have a trade deficit with canada. here is what the president tweeted this morning. we do have a trade deficit with canada. he does not like saying that canada has a surplus verses the u.s. negotiating but they do. they almost all do and that's how i know. the facts, the president's own facts saying no but it is possible that we are talking about the president's defendant statements that he never