If you just use the US perspective of the trade between US and Canada then off the 870 billion per year trade Canada is only selling about 18 billion extra to us which is like 3% trade deficit and if you look at the Canadian numbers American numbers you know this 3% is also probably a statistical error somewhere of how things are calculated what is being counted and what's not being counted I think my hunch is probably correct Canada buys way more from us than us buys from Canada but politics never talks about truth