On Friday, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney slammed President Donald Trump over trade deals with the United States regarding tariffs.<\/p>\n
A reporter told Carney during a press conference that he would have to “convince a lot of Canadians” if a trade deal with Trump went through, as many would be skeptical of the president’s trustworthiness. “How will you explain that the president can be trusted when he signs a document with your name on it?”<\/p>\n
“First, I have to be convinced,” said Carney. “We have to be convinced, the team has to be convinced, the premiers have to be convinced that an agreement is worth the paper it’s written on.”<\/p>\n
Carney added: “We will know when we see it.”<\/p>\n
It mirrors the prime minister’s previous comments that “everything is on the table depending on the outcome of the negotiations” as trade disputes continue to heat up.<\/p>\n
Earlier this week, Carney met with his provincial and territorial counterparts to discuss a response after the Trump administration announced new 50% tariffs on some CA$20 billion of Canadian imports.<\/p>\n
He said trade talks with Washington are intensifying ahead of Aug. 19, when the new U.S. tariffs will come into effect.<\/p>\n
Some provincial leaders have pushed for stronger action and faster results from Ottawa in trade negotiations.<\/p>\n
Carney said options included continuing to diversify trade away from the U.S. and helping sectors most exposed to tariffs. In terms of a direct retaliatory response, he said, “there’s a full range of things we can do in that regard,” but didn’t elaborate on potential punitive measures.<\/p>\n
“We are going to support Canadian workers, families, businesses, full stop,” he said. The U.S. announced new levies on Monday, citing what it called “unequal treatment” of U.S. cars, dairy, and alcohol by Canada.<\/p>\n
Everyday consumer items and industrial goods are on the target list. However, key exports will be spared, including energy, potash, critical minerals, and fish. Each country has about a month to negotiate before the levies take effect.<\/p>\n
Carney said the deadline is “both” a pressure tactic from the Trump administration and an opportunity to move talks forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Friday, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney slammed President Donald Trump over trade deals with the United States…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[17,162,111,6880],"class_list":["post-144454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mark-carney","tag-canada","tag-donald-trump","tag-mark-carney","tag-trade-tariffs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144454","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=144454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}