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<\/p>\nThe United States imposed 50 per cent tariffs on an array of Canadian goods, from hockey sticks and cement to honey. Canada is set to roll out its retaliatory duties next week.<\/p>\n
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Soon after Carney\u2019s comments, President Donald Trump posted on social media that it \u201cis very good for Canadian Politicians like Prime Minister Carney to make President Donald J. Trump \u2018the enemy,\u2019 until their Economy collapses, then it will prove to be very bad for Politics.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWorse than anything that has ever happened to a Canadian Politician. Just watch!\u201d Trump added.<\/p>\n
Canadian and American officials have been in a messaging war since negotiations were frozen, with each side blaming the other for last-minute demands that made a trade deal untenable.<\/p>\n
Carney has said the United States \u201cproposed new terms that were uneconomic, unfair and undermined the net benefits to Canada, calling into question the reliability of any deal.\u201d<\/p>\n
He has cited what he described as U.S. demands that would have limited Canada\u2019s ability to make trade deals with other countries or protect the French language.<\/p>\n
Both sides have said tariffs on medium- and heavy-duty trucks were a sticking point. Americans have said Canada\u2019s negotiators brought up issues with Trump\u2019s sectoral tariffs on that industry late in trade talks, while the Canadian side has said relief from those duties was always on the table.<\/p>\n
U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick was on multiple U.S. news stations this week claiming Canada added \u201ccrazy ideas\u201d in the final hours of negotiations in order to terminate trade talks for domestic political reasons that would benefit Carney\u2019s Liberals.<\/p>\n
Lutnick told Bloomberg News he asked his Canadian counterpart if they were trying to blow up the deal on purpose and claimed they responded, \u201cI\u2019m not allowed to say that.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey decided for political reasons \u2014 domestically, domestic Canada \u2014 they\u2019d rather fight with Donald Trump,\u201d Lutnick said. \u201cEven if it\u2019s bad for the economy of Canada, for their political ambition to get certain elections.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lutnick \u2014 echoing other Trump administration members, including United States Trade Representative Jamieson Greer \u2014 said the U.S. was not interested in \u201cFrench nonsense.\u201d<\/p>\n
Multiple reports have said Lutnick inserted himself into the negotiations and communicated with Carney numerous times before talks dissolved.<\/p>\n
Lutnick was also a key figure behind the delayed opening of the Gordie Howe International Bridge and the changes to the bridge revenue agreement.<\/p>\n
When asked last month by CNN whether the U.S. made changes in the final hours of trade talks, Trump responded, \u201cThat sounds like me.\u201d Members of his administration claimed the president was just talking off the cuff.<\/p>\n
Carney said Thursday that there were \u201cred line\u201d issues on which the Trump administration was taking a \u201ctake it or leave it\u201d attitude right up to the final moments of the talks.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow they\u2019re not,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll of a sudden, they don\u2019t care about Canadian language or culture and those elements. Well, if they didn\u2019t care, they shouldn\u2019t have kept them in the deal.\u201d<\/p>\n
Carney said Canadian negotiators weren\u2019t looking for an \u201ceasy win\u201d but instead wanted a deal that was durable. He said Canada is ready to sit down and strike that deal when the Americans are ready.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 3, 2026.<\/p>\n
\u2014 With files from Kelly Geraldine Malone in Washington<\/p>\n
Catherine Morrison, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The United States imposed 50 per cent tariffs on an array of Canadian goods, from hockey sticks and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[214,286,111,280,287,279,281,282,116,283,284,285,49],"class_list":["post-195607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mark-carney","tag-breaking-news","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-mark-carney","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195607","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=195607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}