{"id":1181175,"date":"2026-09-01T20:22:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T20:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1181175\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T20:22:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T20:22:16","slug":"canadas-carney-says-us-must-start-being-serious-to-resolve-trade-dispute-trade-war-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1181175\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s Carney says US must \u2018start being serious\u2019 to resolve trade dispute | Trade War News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has reprimanded the United States for what he describes as a flippant approach to the ongoing trade dispute<\/a> between the two countries.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Carney<\/a> hit back against a series of insults and disparaging remarks from US President Donald Trump and his officials, saying that talks can proceed once Washington takes a more serious approach to the issues at hand.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhen the Americans stop doing memes, stop throwing shade and stop trying to be tough, and start being serious about having those discussions, we can have those discussions,\u201d Carney told reporters in Ottawa. \u201cIt\u2019s not constructive, but that\u2019s their democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Liberal Party leader\u2019s remarks come as tensions<\/a> flare once again between the US and Canada, which have historically had tight relations.<\/p>\n

But Trump\u2019s second terms have caused those ties to fray. Since returning to office in 2025, Trump\u00a0has imposed a series of tariffs on Canadian products, prompting retaliatory actions.<\/p>\n

The latest round of tariffs came on August 22, when negotiations between the two countries fell through.<\/p>\n

As a result, 50 percent tariffs were imposed on roughly $20bn worth of Canadian goods. Canada has pledged to respond with tariffs on US goods, worth roughly the same dollar amount, starting on September 8.<\/p>\n

In the aftermath of the failed negotiations, Carney blamed the impasse on last-minute US demands.<\/p>\n

He accused the Trump administration of seeking to limit Canada\u2019s ability to cement trade deals with other countries and of requesting changes to laws protecting Canada\u2019s French language and culture.<\/p>\n

Carney also said Trump\u2019s team attempted to push an asymmetrical deal that would damage Canada\u2019s industries.<\/p>\n

\u201cCanada\u2019s a sovereign state. We will strike free trade deals with the countries we wish to strike free trade deals with,\u201d Carney told reporters on Tuesday. He added, \u201cOf course, we\u2019re not going to accept those terms.\u201d<\/p>\n

The trade war between the two countries has prompted a surge of nationalism in Canada.<\/p>\n

A June poll from the research firm Abacus Data found that national pride surged 12 points in two years, reaching 77 percent this year.<\/p>\n

Carney has faced pressure not to yield to US demands. In addition to imposing steep tariffs, the Trump administration has also pushed Canada to cede its sovereignty and become a \u201c51st state\u201d within the US.<\/p>\n

Trump has also taken symbolic actions designed to assert US dominance over the two countries\u2019 shared border region. On August 27, the US president signed an executive order directing federal entities to refer\u00a0to Lake Ontario<\/a> as \u201cLake America\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are one of the worst countries in the world to deal with,\u201d Trump said of Canada in a recent radio interview.<\/p>\n

Other cabinet-level officials in the Trump administration have echoed Trump\u2019s remarks disparaging Canada.<\/p>\n

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told the news outlet CNBC that Canada\u2019s economy is ill-equipped to handle a trade war with the US, and he blamed Carney for escalating the situation.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, I don\u2019t think you can be in a tit-for-tat with someone who\u2019s 13 times larger than you are,\u201d Bessent said on Monday.<\/p>\n

Of Carney, he added, \u201cHe came to power on an anti-American, anti-Trump agenda. He was 20 points behind in the polls. And then he started this. And it\u2019s unfortunate that he\u2019s not doing what\u2019s best for the Canadian people.\u201d<\/p>\n

US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, meanwhile, posted an image of two female Canadian cadets on social media, in an apparent effort to mock the country\u2019s armed forces.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is real,\u201d he wrote beneath the image of the two women, alongside an emoji of the Canadian flag.<\/p>\n

Hegseth, a former TV host, has frequently castigated efforts to include women, LGBTQ people and racial minorities in the military as \u201cwoke\u201d distractions from the US military\u2019s core mission.<\/p>\n

When reporters asked Carney to respond to such messages, he replied that such comments were \u201cbeneath\u201d the officials\u2019 office.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur plan has always been standing up for Canada, first and foremost, here at home,\u201d Carney said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has reprimanded the United States for what he describes as a flippant approach…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1181176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5311],"tags":[943,32,1700,1234,3058,12,285,1219,49,978,286,659],"class_list":["post-1181175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-canada","tag-donald-trump","tag-economy","tag-government","tag-international-trade","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-trade-war","tag-united-states","tag-us","tag-us-canada","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181175","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=1181175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1181176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1181175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1181175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1181175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}