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Canada\u2019s Prime Minister Mark Carney attends the Question Period on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, April 15, 2026. (AP)<\/p>\nToronto: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has warned that his country\u2019s \u201cformer strengths\u201d based on close ties to the United States have become its \u201cweaknesses\u201d and must be corrected.<\/p>\n
Canada\u2019s Prime Minister Mark Carney attends the Question Period on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, April 15, 2026. (AP)<\/p>\n
Carney made this statement in a nearly 10-minute-long video address posted on social media. He also made it clear this will be the first of such videos.<\/p>\n
The world, he said, has become \u201cmore dangerous and divided\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe US has fundamentally changed its approach to trade, raising its tariffs to levels last seen during the Great Depression. Many of our former strengths, based on our close ties to America, have become our weaknesses, weaknesses that we must correct,\u201d he stressed, adding, \u201cThe US has changed, and we must respond.\u201d<\/p>\n
The address echoed Carney\u2019s speech at Davos in January, which targeted the Administration of American President Donald Trump and earned the latter\u2019s disapproval. The new video comes prior to renegotiating the Canada-US-Mexico trade agreement this summer.<\/p>\n
Among the solutions, he noted, was \u201cstriking new partnerships abroad, so we can sell into new markets\u201d. Canada is already working on such measures and among them is the comprehensive economic partnership agreement or CEPA with India.<\/p>\n
Carney met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi in March and they announced the launch of fresh negotiations towards the trade deal. Negotiations have commenced and are expected to conclude before the end of the year. Trade relations are expected to receive further impetus when Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal visits Canada in the weeks ahead, accompanied by a large delegation.<\/p>\n
Carney warned against the sentiment that relations with the United States will return to normal, saying that \u201chope isn\u2019t a plan, and nostalgia is not a strategy\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe can\u2019t control the disruption coming from our neighbours. We can\u2019t bet our future on the hope that it will suddenly stop,\u201d he underscored.<\/p>\n
The address just after the Liberal Party secured a majority in the House of Commons after sweeping three by-elections last week.<\/p>\n
Carney defined the address as \u201cforward guidance\u201d a term he coined while Governor of the Bank of Canada during the global economic crisis that began in 20007 and lasted till 2010.<\/p>\n
He said he developed it \u201cto assure people that however difficult the situation seemed on any given day, that we were acting, and importantly, that we would continue to act with overwhelming force against our problems until they were solved.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has warned that his country\u2019s \u201cformer strengths\u201d based on close ties to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,162,928,111,6084,401],"class_list":["post-11181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-canada","tag-donald-trump","tag-india","tag-mark-carney","tag-narendra-modi","tag-trade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}