{"id":462519,"date":"2025-09-30T07:41:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T07:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/462519\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T07:41:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T07:41:25","slug":"canada-walks-fine-line-with-us-at-the-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/462519\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada walks fine line with US at the UN"},"content":{"rendered":"

TORONTO (AP) \u2014 Canada\u2019s foreign minister walked a fine line at the United Nations<\/a> General Assembly on Monday, pushing back at President Donald Trump\u2019s<\/a> assertions of unfettered U.S. power while trying to avoid provoking her country\u2019s biggest trade partner.<\/p>\n

Trump famously said at his inauguration that \u201cduring every single day of the Trump administration, I will, very simply, put America first.\u201d His ensuing actions have followed suit, including calls to make Canada the 51st state<\/a> and vows to put sweeping 25% tariffs on Canadian products.<\/a><\/p>\n

He has also derided the U.N., asking before the General Assembly on Sept. 23, \u201cWhat is the purpose of the United Nations?\u201d and saying that \u201cnot only is the U.N. not solving the problems it should, too often it\u2019s actually creating new problems for us to solve.\u201d <\/p>\n

He has infuriated Canadians, and Foreign Minister Anita Anand delivered gentle pushbacks on Monday when she told the General Assembly that, \u201cmultilateralism remains our best hope to address global challenges rather than rejecting international norms.\u201d<\/p>\n

Switching to Canada\u2019s second official language, French, she said, \u201cToday, the multilateral system is threatened and some countries are turning toward protectionism and unilateralism.\u201d <\/p>\n

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney<\/a> won the country\u2019s election fueled by Trump\u2019s annexation threats and trade war, and he has tried to improve relations ahead of a review of the free trade deal next year. More than 75% of Canada\u2019s exports go to the U.S. and Canada recently dropped many of its retaliatory tariffs to match U.S. tariff exemptions for goods covered under the United States-Mexico-Canada trade pact<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe emphasis on both resilience and multilateralism can be understood as a response to the Trump White House\u2019s current trade and foreign policies,\u201d said Daniel B\u00e9land, a political science professor at McGill University in Montreal. \u201cThe growing level of uncertainty on the global stage is triggering a rethinking of the country\u2019s global role in the era of Trump 2.0.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Gillies reported from Toronto and Weissenstein reported from Dobbs Ferry, New York. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO (AP) \u2014 Canada\u2019s foreign minister walked a fine line at the United Nations General Assembly on Monday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[154804,943,63900,32,5211,4179,5212,8615,3058,2129,285,5214,8406,137505,49,978,659,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-462519","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-anita-anand","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-daniel-bland","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-economic-policy","13":"tag-general-news","14":"tag-government-policy","15":"tag-international-news","16":"tag-international-trade","17":"tag-mark-carney","18":"tag-politics","19":"tag-tariffs-and-global-trade","20":"tag-united-nations","21":"tag-united-nations-general-assembly","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa","25":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115292125145377395","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462519","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=462519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}