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FILE-Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks during a press conference after a Cabinet meeting to discuss both trade negotiations with the US and the situation in the Middle East, at the National Press Theatre in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada on July 30 <\/p>\n
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is calling for changes to Canada\u2019s economic ties to the United States in a video address released Sunday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He also discussed his government\u2019s attempts to fortify the Canadian economy with new investments and signing trade deals with other countries.\u00a0<\/p>\n
What is Carney saying about economic relations between Canada and the U.S.? <\/p>\n
What they’re saying:<\/p>\n
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney stated in his brief address over the weekend that the country\u2019s economic connections to the U.S. were once a strength but have become a weakness that he said must be corrected, The Associated Press reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“The world is more dangerous and divided,” Carney said. “The U.S. has fundamentally changed its approach to trade, raising its tariffs to levels last seen during the Great Depression.<\/p>\n
RELATED:\u00a0Trump still thinks Canada should become the 51st state: ‘A real thing’<\/a><\/p>\n “Many of our former strengths, based on our close ties to America, have become weaknesses. Weaknesses that we must correct.”<\/p>\n The Canadian prime minister also explained that tariffs enforced by President Donald Trump are impacting the auto and steel industries, adding that businesses are restricting investments.\u00a0<\/p>\n RELATED:\u00a0Mark Carney to replace Justin Trudeau as Canada’s prime minister<\/a><\/p>\n According to the AP, many Canadians expressed irritation by\u00a0Trump\u2019s comments hinting that Canada becomes the 51st state<\/a>, with Carney acknowledging plans to give Canadians regular updates on his government\u2019s efforts to diversify away from the U.S.<\/p>\n The AP noted that a review of the current version of the North American Free Trade Agreement between Canada, the U.S. and Mexico is set for July.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Source: Information for this story was provided by The Associated Press, which references remarks from Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney video address. This story was reported from Washington, D.C.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Politics<\/a>U.S.<\/a>World<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article FILE-Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks during a press conference after a Cabinet meeting to discuss both…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[111,116,113,734,1645],"class_list":{"0":"post-12945","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mark-carney","8":"tag-mark-carney","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-politics","11":"tag-us","12":"tag-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12945","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=12945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}