通过搜索发现，有人在社交媒体上发帖写道，加拿大财长弗里兰在视频连线中公然宣称：“面对中国输出的贸易压力，美加完全处于劣势，中国只有回到清朝，美加才有喘息之机。”并附上所谓弗里兰所说的英文原文：Canadian Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland blatantly declared
during a video call: “In the face of the trade pressure exerted by China, the
United States and Canada are completely at a disadvantage. Only when China goes
back to the Qing Dynasty can the United States and Canada have a chance to
catch their breath.”
“the United States and Canada are
completely at a disadvantage”这个表达中划线部分措辞稍显拙劣，母语人士可能会说成“are at a significant disadvantage”或者 “are completely disadvantaged”。
“Only when China goes back to the
Qing Dynasty”这个表达在Only when China goes back to the Qing Dynasty can the United States and Canada have a chance to catch their breath这个句子中听起来怪怪的，这句话母语人士可能会说成“The U.S. and Canada can only catch their breath if China
regresses to the Qing Dynasty era”。
那加拿大财长到底讲了什么话，对中国是什么态度？在众多的新闻报道中，针对中国，弗里兰说了这么一段话“We think that today, there is an opportunity for all of the
(USMCA) countries to work together to have a fully aligned policy on China, to
protect all of our workers and to ensure that we are supporting each other in
this really important effort”，其中文意思为：“我们认为，今天，所有‘美墨加协议’国家都有机会共同努力，制定完全一致的对华政策，保护我们所有的工人，并确保我们在这一真正重要的努力中相互支持。”
