{"id":178667,"date":"2026-08-22T16:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T16:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/178667\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T16:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T16:53:09","slug":"canada-will-retaliate-with-trade-measures-on-u-s-on-sept-8-carney-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/178667\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada will retaliate with trade measures on U.S. on Sept. 8, Carney says"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks alongside Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc and chief trade negotiator Janice Charette on Saturday as Canada vowed to retaliate against U.S. tariffs.PATRICK DOYLE\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Mark Carney said his team walked away from trade negotiations Friday after the American side made unacceptable requests that would have infringed on Canadian sovereignty.<\/p>\n

Speaking with reporters Saturday morning on Parliament Hill, Mr. Carney offered several examples of U.S. demands that Canada could not accept, including the fine print related to potential agreements on steel, aluminum and autos, and language that he said would have restricted Canada\u2019s trade negotiations with other countries. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere were some things we wouldn\u2019t do. We were not prepared to compromise Canada\u2019s sovereignty or to undermine key industries,\u201d he said. \u201cIn short, they asked too much, and they offered too little.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Prime Minister said Canada is preparing retaliatory measures, which would be revealed in the coming days and will take effect Sept. 8.<\/p>\n

Mr. Carney was asked about the tone of his remarks, which suggested that Canada was at war.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou are at war when you get attacked. We got attacked,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s fine. We\u2019ve got the reserves. We\u2019ve got resilience. We\u2019ve got the plan. We\u2019ve got the focus. We\u2019ll respond \u2013 we are going to focus on what we can control. We are going to build.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Prime Minister spoke with the media after negotiations between Canada and the United States fell apart late Friday night, leading to billions of dollars in new tariffs on both sides of the border.<\/p>\n

Mr. Carney is scheduled to meet with his cabinet early Saturday afternoon. He will then chair a First Ministers\u2019 Meeting to discuss plans with provincial and territorial premiers.<\/p>\n

Ontario Premier Doug Ford, who had avoided public comments on the talks in recent days, said Saturday that the Prime Minister was right to walk away from a bad deal with U.S. President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m glad he didn\u2019t sign that deal because it was a bad deal,\u201d he said, adding that the U.S. President can\u2019t be trusted. \u201cPresident Trump is a type of person that would steal your lunch money the first day. He\u2019d steal the toque off your head the second day and the third day he\u2019d steal your running shoes. His not to be trusted whatsoever.\u201d <\/p>\n

Just minutes before the midnight deadline on Friday, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer announced that Canada had declined to finalize the trade deal under terms he said were agreed to earlier in the week.<\/p>\n

Mr. Carney issued a statement shortly after, blaming the American said for introducing \u201clast-minute changes\u201d that were unfair and called into question the reliability of any deal.<\/p>\n

Neither side offered specifics Friday night as to what exactly led the talks to fall apart.<\/p>\n

Having failed to finalize a deal by the midnight deadline, the U.S. said it was going ahead with new 50-per-cent tariffs on US$20-billion worth of goods.<\/p>\n

The Prime Minister said Friday night that Canada would \u201cmatch those tariffs dollar for dollar to protect our workers and businesses.\u201d<\/p>\n

Opposition parties expressed support Saturday for the Prime Minister\u2019s decision to walk away from the negotiations.<\/p>\n

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre released a statement Saturday morning expressing disappointment that the U.S. has chosen to impose further tariffs on Canada.<\/p>\n

\u201cCanadians must stand united to defend our country against these unfair attacks on our jobs and businesses. Canada cannot accept one-sided tariffs that will deindustrialize our country. Nor can we accept a bad deal. Instead, we must continue the fight for tariff-free trade,\u201d he said, adding that he will be seeking a call with Mr. Carney.<\/p>\n

\u201cConservatives support action to protect Canadians and our industries targeted by these unfair U.S. tariffs,\u201d he said. \u201cAll Canadians must stand united for our workers, our businesses and our country.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bloc Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois Leader Yves-Fran\u00e7ois Blanchet expressed support for Mr. Carney\u2019s plan to impose counter tariffs. He also said in a statement that the federal government should provide support for affected businesses and workers.<\/p>\n

NDP Leader Avi Lewis said the Prime Minister was right to walk away from the negotiating table. <\/p>\n

\u201cI believe Canadians are united in this crucial moment, on this crucial point: no deal is better than a bad deal,\u201d he said in a statement. \u201cAccepting a deal that would lock in pointless, destructive tariffs and undermine our ability to regulate big tech would have been disastrous for our workers, industries and sovereignty. PM Carney read the room by rejecting the Americans\u2019 offer.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks alongside Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc and chief…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[164,224,238,214,212,239,17,211,230,231,227,213,210,235,171,234,143,222,249,215,216,229,225,226,219,240,111,220,244,245,247,242,246,94,243,217,142,233,113,232,241,223,236,237,228,221,218,248],"class_list":["post-178667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mark-carney","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-mark-carney","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178667","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=178667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}