U.S. President Donald Trump said he rejected a meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over Canada's dairy tariffs, negotiating style on NAFTA and because his people do not like Canada's "representative." 
 
 Trump made the remarks during a news conference in New York on Wednesday, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, when he was asked if he had, in fact, snubbed Trudeau. 
 
 "Yeah I did," Trump said, adding it was "because his tariffs are too high and he doesn't seem to want to move and I've told him forget about it and frankly we're thinking about just taxing cars coming in from Canada. That's the mother lode, that's the big one." 
 
 However, the Prime Minister's Office said in an email to CBC News that "no meeting was requested," and that it had no comment beyond that. 
 
 Trump went on to criticize Canadian officials and how they have negotiated during the recent NAFTA talks. 
 
 "We're very unhappy with the negotiations and the negotiating style of Canada. We don't like their representative very much," Trump added. 
 
 U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters in New York Wednesday that he rejected a meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau because he does not like Canada's tariffs, NAFTA negotiating style or representative at those negotiations. 0:30 
 
 Trump did not say which representative he meant. 
 
 During the NAFTA negotiations U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer has acted as the lead official for the U.S. while Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland has filled that role for Canada. 
 
 A senior Canadian official told CBC News the Trump comments should be seen in the context of the continuing negotiations. 
 
 While Trudeau and Trump did not have a formal or even informal meeting at the UN, the pair did shake hands briefly during a luncheon for world leaders. ||||| But then, this summer, the U.S. announced it would impose steep tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from Canada. Trudeau quickly hit back, saying Canada would impose tariffs of its own on steel and aluminum imports from the U.S. “We are imposing dollar for dollar tariffs for every dollar levied against Canadians by the U.S.,” Trudeau said. 
 
 By June, in the wake of a tense G7 summit in Quebec, Trump was calling Trudeau “meek and mild,” “dishonest & weak.” Although the U.S. president had just endorsed a joint communique at the summit, after hearing that Trudeau had spoken to the press about Canadian tariffs against the U.S., Trump took back his endorsement. He also threatened more tariffs against U.S. allies. 
 
 The fight over tariffs, which sparked fears of an all-out trade war between the two traditionally friendly countries, were a piece of a bigger dispute over NAFTA. The 1994 trade deal is meant to promote the free flow of goods and services between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, but Trump has said he believes the trade deal hurts American industry. By August, Trump was announcing a separate trade deal with Mexico. Canada was effectively left behind, though Trump said it could join later. 
 
 Amid the attempt to renegotiate the deal, Trudeau had said he canceled a scheduled meeting with Trump in Washington because of a disagreement over a proposed clause. Snub often begets snub, and now Trump says he’s rejected Trudeau in turn. 
 
 In a moment captured on camera that one reporter described as “awkward,” Trudeau went up to shake Trump’s hand at the UN and the two exchanged very brief words before the Canadian leader moved aside. After media outlets dubbed it a sign of “simmering tensions” and “lingering resentment,” Trudeau played down the encounter, telling the press he and Trump talk regularly. “It was an interaction like so many are at the UN, quick but cordial. There are all sorts of opportunities for me to speak with President Trump, and that was not the time.”
– Canada, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in particular, were among President Trump's many targets in his freewheeling press conference Wednesday. Trump claimed that he had rejected a one-on-one meeting with Trudeau at the United Nations this week because talks to renegotiate the NAFTA deal are not going well, the Atlantic reports. "His tariffs are too high, and he doesn't seem to want to move and I've told him forget about it, and frankly, we're thinking about just taxing cars coming in from Canada," Trump said. "We're very unhappy with the negotiations and the negotiating style of Canada," he added. "We don't like their representative very much." Trudeau's office, however, tells the CBC that "no meeting was requested" and it will not comment further on the matter. Mexico has already signed a deal ahead of the Trump administration's Oct. 1 deadline, but talks with Canada have not gone as smoothly—possibly because Trump insists that any deal will be "totally on our terms," according to remarks leaked earlier this month. Sources tell CNBC that US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer might issue the text of the Mexico deal, with framework to add Canada at a later date, as soon as Friday. Trump told the press conference that he refuses to use the name NAFTA. "What we're probably going to do is go with the USMC, like the United States Marine Corps, which I love," he said, though he added that it might be just "USM," for the United States and Mexico.