{"id":158684,"date":"2026-08-06T21:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T21:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/158684\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T21:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T21:46:09","slug":"carney-calls-us-trade-talks-nasty-after-trump-criticizes-canadas-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/158684\/","title":{"rendered":"Carney calls US trade talks ‘nasty’ after Trump criticizes Canada’s leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"

TORONTO (AP) \u2014 Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Thursday that trade negotiations with the United States had turned \u201cnasty\u201d after President Donald Trump derided America\u2019s neighbor and its leadership while threatening to expand tariffs. <\/p>\n

Carney said Canada remained engaged in the negotiations<\/a> despite Trump\u2019s comments, describing the talks as a fight to protect Canadian workers and businesses.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a tough negotiation,\u201d Carney said in French. \u201cYou can say \u2018nasty.\u2019 But this is a question of Canadian jobs. It\u2019s a question of the future of Canadian businesses.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump criticized Canada during a speech Wednesday in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

\u201cCanada\u2019s nasty. They are. They\u2019re nasty,\u201d Trump said. \u201cI love the people, but they\u2019re nasty. Nasty leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carney said \u201cwe are in the middle of a tariff war with the Americans\u201d but laughed when asked about Trump\u2019s description. He said Canadian negotiators were in Washington this week and that he expected further conversations with Trump after speaking with him last week.<\/p>\n

The United States already has tariffs on Canadian steel, aluminum and automobiles. Trump has threatened to impose 50% tariffs<\/a> on more Canadian goods beginning Aug. 19.<\/p>\n

Tariffs are taxes on imports, which companies can then pass along to consumers in the form of higher prices. The president maintains that the costs created by tariffs will cause manufacturing to relocate to the U.S., though there is little evidence of that in the economic data.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s tariff threats and repeated suggestions that Canada should become the 51st U.S. state have angered many Canadians, prompting many Canadians to cancel trips to the United States. <\/p>\n

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer has argued that Canada and China are the only two countries to retaliate against Trump\u2019s tariffs, citing restrictions on U.S. alcohol sales in some Canadian provinces among his concerns. Canadian officials say their countermeasures were a response to existing U.S. tariffs.<\/p>\n

The latest comments followed months of escalating tensions. At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in January, Carney criticized major powers for using economic coercion against smaller countries, prompting Trump to respond: \u201cCanada lives because of the United States. Remember that, Mark, the next time you make your statements.\u201d<\/p>\n

Canada is one of the United States\u2019 largest trading partners, and the move threatens to push prices higher at a time when Americans are already frustrated with the high cost of living ahead of the Nov. 3 midterm elections.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\n Sign up for Morning Wire:
\n Our flagship newsletter breaks down the biggest headlines of the day.\n <\/p>\n

Carney said existing U.S. tariffs on aluminum have contributed to a 58% increase in aluminum prices in the United States.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s not a good situation for American companies,\u201d Carney said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO (AP) \u2014 Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Thursday that trade negotiations with the United States had…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[525,17,591,51014,596,162,592,434,111,5856,113,8156,30,594,218],"class_list":["post-158684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-business","tag-canada","tag-canada-government","tag-canada-trump-mark-carney","tag-diplomacy","tag-donald-trump","tag-general-news","tag-international-trade","tag-mark-carney","tag-metals-and-mining","tag-politics","tag-tariffs-and-global-trade","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-government","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158684","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=158684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}