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U.S. President Donald Trump talks to Prime Minister Mark Carney during the G7 summit on Wednesday, June 17, 2026 in Evian-les-Bains, France. (AP Photo\/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, Pool) – The Canadian Press \u00b7 The Canadian Press <\/p>\n U.S. President Donald Trump talks to Prime Minister Mark Carney during the G7 summit on Wednesday, June 17, 2026 in Evian-les-Bains, France. (AP Photo\/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, Pool) – The Canadian Press \u00b7 The Canadian Press <\/p>\n
OTTAWA \u2014 Prime Minister Mark Carney appears untroubled by U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent claim that the United States would \u201cdo better without” the North American free trade pact.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s no secret the president in recent years has not been the biggest fan of CUSMA or other trade deals,\u201d Carney told reporters at a news conference in Vancouver on Thursday.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut there are specific things that we can work on, including \u2026 forest products, which we continue to press with the Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump expressed his displeasure with the current deal to reporters on Wednesday at the G7 summit in France.<\/p>\n
Trump said he would rather “leave it unsigned” or “have it terminated.”<\/p>\n
The president sent mixed signals, though, by indicating that he might ultimately sign off on its renewal.<\/p>\n
CUSMA refers to the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement on trade, which is up for mandatory review this year with a formal review scheduled to start by July.<\/p>\n
Mexico\u2019s Secretary of Economy Marcelo Ebrard said Thursday, after wrapping up a second round of talks with the U.S., that a virtual joint-meeting on CUSMA is scheduled for July 1 with Canada and the United States.<\/p>\n
U.S.-Canada Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc’s office would not confirm the virtual meeting.<\/p>\n
Canada and Mexico both have called for a 16-year extension to the agreement.<\/p>\n
But comments from the Trump administration suggest the U.S. expects to blow past the July 1 deadline, triggering an annual rolling review for up to a decade.<\/p>\n
Carney noted Thursday that without any action, the deal will still remain in place for at least the next decade.<\/p>\n
The deal can also be cancelled with six months\u2019 notice.<\/p>\n
Carney said on Thursday his conversations with Trump over the past few days at the recent G7 summit were very detailed and \u201ctechnical\u201d in nature.<\/p>\n
United States Trade Representative Jamieson Greer has said there are pillars of the continental trade pact that work well. Greer has also signalled openness to two separate bilateral agreements.<\/p>\n
There are also several American economic sectors asking for the pact to be renewed, including agriculture and the auto sector.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 18, 2026.<\/p>\n
\u2014 with files from Kelly Geraldine Malone in Washington and Ashley Joannou in Vancouver<\/p>\n
Kyle Duggan, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. President Donald Trump talks to Prime Minister Mark Carney during the G7 summit on Wednesday, June 17,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[4939,162,31388,111,989,2878],"class_list":["post-94433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mark-carney","tag-cusma","tag-donald-trump","tag-g7-summit","tag-mark-carney","tag-the-canadian-press","tag-u-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94433","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=94433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}