Siding with Canadians weary of provocations from Washington, Prime Minister Mark Carney stood up to US President Donald Trump, rejecting what he called an \u201cunfair\u201d trade deal \u2013 a gamble that could prove economically risky.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will not allow any nation to determine our future. We will set our own course to keep building Canada strong for all,\u201d Carney said on Friday, as negotiations for a bilateral trade deal were crumbling.<\/p>\n
After weeks of talks with US officials in an effort to avoid punitive duties, Carney walked away just ahead of the deadline set by Trump.<\/p>\n
That triggered 50 per cent US tariffs affecting some US$20 billion worth of goods, from hockey sticks to cement, effective Saturday.<\/p>\n
Carney then announced retaliatory duties on US goods, notably steel and dairy products, to take effect on September 8.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur government understood before many that America would transform all of its commercial relationships, that it would put a series of tariffs on its closest allies, and use economic integration as a weapon,\u201d Carney said on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Siding with Canadians weary of provocations from Washington, Prime Minister Mark Carney stood up to US President Donald…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1164054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5311],"tags":[943,124035,32993,21882,32,42647,32994,6938,48928,2600,6621,49,978,659,6709,94014],"class_list":["post-1164053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-canada","tag-canadians","tag-carney","tag-davos","tag-donald-trump","tag-group-of-seven","tag-ottawa","tag-quebec","tag-royal-bank-of-canada","tag-switzerland","tag-the-globe-and-mail","tag-united-states","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-washington","tag-world-economic-forum"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117142412744099552","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1164053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1164054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1164053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1164053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1164053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}