interview with CBC News chief political correspondent Rosemary Barton<\/a>, Greer said that late in the talks Canada “had some additional views. They had some additional requests. They had some additional things that were too much for the United States.”<\/p>\nCarney brushed those versions of events away, laying out what he needs to see before Canada returns to the bargaining table with the Trump administration.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Some of what they’re saying now is different than what they were drawing the line on [during the talks] and we are always going to stand up for what’s in the best interest of Canada,” he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The prime minister said that to resume negotiating with the U.S. he is looking for a deal that is durable over time and works to the benefit of both Canada and the U.S.<\/p>\n
“We’re ready to sit down and strike that deal when the Americans are ready,” he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
That will happen, Carney said, when the U.S. recognizes where Canada’s red lines are and respects them.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Our position is clear. We need to retain the right to protect and promote the French language, Canadian culture, Quebec culture. Fundamental,” he said.\u00a0“We need to maintain our ability, our sovereignty, to conclude trade deals with other countries.”<\/p>\n
Carney said Canada would have to be assured that the deal was durable and any tariffs which had been reduced or eliminated would not suddenly be reimposed at a later date.<\/p>\n
“There were a few instances in the negotiations where those protections were not going to be given, and in fact, the opposite was going to be inserted, which is unacceptable,” he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In a post on Truth Social published shortly after Carney spoke, U.S. President Donald Trump said Canada’s prime minister was painting the president as the bad guy because it is politically useful.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“It is very good for Canadian Politicians like Prime Minister Carney to make President Donald J. Trump ‘the enemy,’ until their economy collapses, then it will prove to be very bad for Politics \u2014 Worse than anything that has ever happened to a Canadian Politician,” Trump said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Recognizing the integrated auto industry<\/p>\n
Carney said that he understands Canada isn’t going to land a trade agreement that looked like something the two countries would have signed\u00a0before the U.S. changed its tariffs and commercial policies, but it still has to work for Canada.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“It’s not a question of going back to what was past. However, the terms of our automobile sector, our steel sector, our aluminum sector have to be competitive,” he said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
To do that, Carney said, the U.S. administration also has to recognize that the auto sector is an integrated industry that straddles the border.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Since those trade talks fell apart, Trump and his cabinet have taken to insulting Canada on social media and trolling Canadians by renaming Lake Ontario “Lake America<\/a>.” \u00a0<\/p>\nU.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent compared Canada’s navy to a now closed ride at the West Edmonton Mall and U.S. Transport Secretary Sean Duffy said Canada is “a country that doesn’t have a military.”<\/p>\n
On Tuesday Carney dismissed those insults and said senior U.S. officials engaging in that kind of behaviour is “beneath their office.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Mark Carney has dismissed a series of recent comments by U.S. cabinet members that challenge the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[17,61091,60298,13590,351,735,111,28,61092,2878,59958],"class_list":["post-194771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mark-carney","tag-canada","tag-canada-had","tag-canadas-navy","tag-canadas","tag-canadian","tag-carney","tag-mark-carney","tag-trump","tag-trump-said","tag-u-s","tag-u-s-treasury"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194771","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=194771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}