{"id":1172992,"date":"2026-08-27T21:46:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T21:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1172992\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T21:46:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T21:46:22","slug":"canada-welcomes-us-shift-on-french-language-discoverability-in-trade-talks-trade-war-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1172992\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada welcomes US shift on French language discoverability in trade talks | Trade War News"},"content":{"rendered":"

US trade officials downplay French language dispute, calling claims fabricated.<\/p>\n

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Published On 27 Aug 202627 Aug 2026<\/p>\n

Canada\u2019s top trade negotiator with the United States, Dominic LeBlanc, says he \u201cwelcomes\u201d a shift in the US position on \u201cdiscoverability\u201d, \u201clabelling\u201d and \u201cmeasures to promote French language and Canadian culture\u201d not being subject to US tariffs.<\/p>\n

LeBlanc praised the move in a post on Thursday on X and added that Canada is looking \u201cforward to further constructive U.S. clarifications on their other positions, which would create the possibility of a mutually beneficial trade agreement\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Al Jazeera reached out to the White House for comment, but it pointed to an interview with US Trade Representative Jamison Greer on the Canadian broadcaster CBC in which Greer said French language discoverability on streaming services \u201cis not something where we push hard or condition or red-line\u201d.<\/p>\n

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick echoed those comments at a news conference on Thursday outside the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n

\u201cDo I care about how the Quebecois speak? I mean, what could matter less to America? We don\u2019t care. So the fact is we never brought those words up. This is manufactured, and that\u2019s why the president put out a [post on Truth Social] saying it was a complete lie, right? It was manufactured,\u201d Lutnick told reporters.<\/p>\n

The comments come on the heels of tit-for-tat tariffs between Washington and Ottawa.<\/p>\n

Canada announced retaliatory tariffs<\/a> on roughly $20bn of US goods ranging from 15 to 50 percent that will go into effect on September 8. Those levies were in response to 50 percent tariffs announced by Washington on Canadian goods as negotiations collapsed over the weekend.<\/p>\n

US President Donald Trump ramped up his rhetoric against Canada in recent days, including signing an executive order on Thursday to rename Lake Ontario<\/a>, the easternmost of the five Great Lakes, which borders Ontario, to Lake America.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said US officials made \u201cthreats to the French language\u201d as well as threats to the culture of Canada and Quebec specifically.<\/p>\n

Canada\u2019s retaliatory tariffs are to hit hundreds of consumer products, including ice skates, dishwashers and construction materials. However, on Wednesday, Ottawa scaled back some tariffs, including those on fish and other seafood products.<\/p>\n

\u201cBased on feedback, we have made select adjustments to protect against economic harms, including removing seafood and fish products from our list of counter-tariffs,\u201d Canada\u2019s Department of Finance said in a post on X.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are continually working with Canadian industries to assess the effectiveness of these measures, with a primary focus on industries that have been targeted by US tariffs.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US trade officials downplay French language dispute, calling claims fabricated. Published On 27 Aug 202627 Aug 2026 Canada\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1172993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5311],"tags":[12633,943,32,1700,3058,12,285,1219,49,978,286,659],"class_list":["post-1172992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-business-and-economy","tag-canada","tag-donald-trump","tag-economy","tag-international-trade","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-trade-war","tag-united-states","tag-us","tag-us-canada","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117169672258028027","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172992","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=1172992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1172993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}