OTTAWA, July 29 (Reuters) – Prime Minister Mark Carney on Wednesday played down the idea of curbing oil \u200csupplies to the United States to gain leverage \u200cin a trade war, saying that would harm Canada’s reputation. <\/p>\n
President Donald Trump, \u200bwho has already imposed a raft of tariffs against Canada, on Tuesday said he did not care about renewing the U.S.-Mexico-Canada free trade deal. He is also threatening another round \u200cof punitive measures later \u2060this month. <\/p>\n
Last week Carney said he and Trump had agreed to intensify trade negotiations, adding \u2060that all options were on the table if the United States went ahead with its latest tariff threat. <\/p>\n
Canada is a \u200bmajor shipper \u200bof crude to the United \u200bStates and Carney, in \u200cresponse to a question about potentially using oil as a bargaining lever, dismissed the idea. <\/p>\n
“Being a reliable supplier is important. Canadians are reliable. Canadians can be trusted … we have many exports and commodities. One of the biggest commodities, arguably \u200cthe best, is trust,” he said. <\/p>\n
“People \u200btrust us, and so when \u200byou’re the supplier of \u200ba key commodity, a key service, you \u200chave got to think really hard \u200babout not \u200bsupplying.” <\/p>\n
The province of Alberta, which supplies most of the oil sent to the United States, has also said \u200bit will not \u200caccept any action to curb exports of oil or \u200bimpose export duties. <\/p>\n
(Reporting by David Ljunggren, editing by \u200bMaria Cheng and Deepa Babington) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA, July 29 (Reuters) – Prime Minister Mark Carney on Wednesday played down the idea of curbing oil…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,26297,111,202,48115,437,30],"class_list":["post-148504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-canada","tag-free-trade-deal","tag-mark-carney","tag-president-donald-trump","tag-punitive-measures","tag-trade-war","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148504","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=148504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}