{"id":28171,"date":"2026-05-01T19:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T19:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/28171\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T19:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T19:38:11","slug":"carney-canada-wont-leverage-energy-minerals-in-trade-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/28171\/","title":{"rendered":"Carney: Canada won\u2019t leverage energy, minerals in trade talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">OTTAWA \u2014 Prime Minister Mark Carney is rejecting the notion that Canada might use energy or critical minerals as \u201cleverage\u201d in upcoming trade talks with U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The prime minister made the remarks in an interview with The Canadian Press, his first since declaring he would enter federal politics more than a year ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Carney said he wouldn\u2019t describe those sectors as \u201cleverage\u201d since Canada is not talking about stopping any sort of existing trade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">His comments come after United States Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told an audience in Washington that Canada should not attempt to use its energy and mineral resources as leverage in discussions about renewing the continental free trade pact.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Carney also defended former prime minister Justin Trudeau\u2019s record on trade and his handling of Trump, crediting Trudeau with successfully negotiating the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement during Trump\u2019s first term in the White House.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Carney said the agreement, better known as CUSMA, \u201cstands the test of time\u201d and he believes \u201cmuch of it will be retained\u201d through the renewal process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Kyle Duggan, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">With files from Mia Rabson in Ottawa and Kelly Geraldine Malone in Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA \u2014 Prime Minister Mark Carney is rejecting the notion that Canada might use energy or critical minerals&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[525,234,111,290,113,3090],"class_list":{"0":"post-28171","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mark-carney","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-environment","10":"tag-mark-carney","11":"tag-national","12":"tag-politics","13":"tag-utilities"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28171","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=28171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}