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“I wouldn’t want that. Because I will tell you: I want the best person at each position… I’m going to get the best people for the job.”

He mentioned, for example, billionaire investor Carl Icahn who has endorsed Trump and is apparently already lined up for a cabinet spot should the real-estate-selling reality-TV star win the White House.

Trump has taken a few positions on other issues relevant to Canada in recent months, as he has mostly led the Republican nomination polls.

He has dismissed the idea of a border wall with Canada, despite enthusiastically proposing one with Mexico. He opposes the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact because he says it’s a bad deal for the United States.

And he supports the Keystone XL pipeline. Trump has mused about possibly requesting better terms from TransCanada Corp., but he is emphatically in favour of building the stalled pipeline.

“It’s an outrage that Obama has delayed and probably even killed the 1,179-mile-long pipeline,” he writes in his new book, “Crippled America,” released before President Barack Obama officially announced he was rejecting the project.

The pipeline is expected to be an issue in the 2016 presidential election, as Republicans favour it and Democrats oppose it. However, it barely came up in a Republican debate on the economy Tuesday.