The White House says U.S. President Donald Trump has done “more than anyone” to protect Canada from threats, after Prime Minister Mark Carney’s recent comments that he has prepared for the unlikely risk of U.S. military action against Canada.
When asked by The Globe and Mail on Thursday about Mr. Carney’s comments, Anna Kelly, principal deputy press secretary at the White House, said he should be grateful for Mr. Trump’s assistance in defending Canada.
There’s no rush for the Trump administration to get back to the negotiating table with Canada and, given how fighting with Donald Trump is helping Mark Carney politically, there may be little urgency in Ottawa either.
With a number of media appearances this week, Trump’s chief trade negotiator, Jamieson Greer, has given the public some insight into how he and Trump’s team are thinking about Canada.
It is with great concern for some of my fellow countrymen, inching precariously toward the edge of utter lunacy, that I write this post.
Prime Minister Mark Carney this week, in an interview with the New York Times, went on record saying it would be “irresponsible” not to plan for the possible contingency of a military invasion of Canada by the United States. Unfortunately, Mr. Carney didn’t misspeak or fall victim to a cherry-picked quote taken out of context. His concern was later reiterated by Defence Minister David McGuinty and Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Solomon.
U.S. President Donald Trump is “comfortable” with where things stand with Canada — his country’s once closest ally — and is in no rush to reach a new trade deal, according to his top trade envoy.
“The reality is President Trump is comfortable where we are on Canada,” United States Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said in a Friday morning interview with the American network CNBC.
“They call us now and then and we have good conversations about potential deals. But there’s no urgency on our side.”
I think the US just told Carney to go soak his head.
There’s “no urgency” to strike a trade deal with Canada, according to Washington’s trade representative, as Canada continues to supply a variety of key exports to the U.S.
U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer made the comments to American network CNBC Friday morning when asked about progress toward a deal with Canada. He said U.S. President Donald Trump is “comfortable” with the present situation as the two countries scrap through a protracted trade war.
“Our trade policy is a global policy,” he said. “It applies to Canada, China, the U.K., Brazil, all kinds of countries,” he said.
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What does Prime Minister Mark Carney have against the U.S. dollar?
Plenty, it turns out. And his recent calls for an alternative to the U.S. greenback as a global reserve currency will not go over well in Washington, where the dollar’s dominance is seen as an indispensable tool in the conduct of U.S. economic and foreign policy.
Carney knows the war is lost so he’s riling up the Elbow people to avoid having to admit he’s been a failure.
h/t Mauser
When explaining why trade talks between Canada and the United States collapsed in late August, Prime Minister Mark Carney often cites the U.S. team’s shifting and last-minute demands. Those mattered, to be sure. But what he doesn’t mention is equally important.
In a 2,700-word address on Aug. 22 explaining why we’re in a trade war, Mr. Carney never said the word “China.” In his Sept. 8 Forward Guidance video, he mentioned it once, observing that an Alberta farm can now get better prices for its canola “because our trade diversification opens opportunities with China.” That was the deal he negotiated in January in Beijing, with the benefit emphasized and the price tag removed.
Canadians know how it feels to be hit by U.S. tariffs. But Canada hasn’t been subjected to Washington’s more aggressive tactics such as trade sanctions and asset freezes.
Or rather, most Canadians haven’t.
Judge Kimberly Prost, a Canadian jurist who serves on the International Criminal Court, is the exception. She found her credit cards cancelled, her Google accounts closed and was effectively “de-banked” after U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared the court “an instrument for lawfare against the United States and our close ally Israel.”
I bet Carney holds greenbacks. h/t Mauser
OTTAWA — Days before Prime Minister Mark Carney traded lower tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles for relief on Canadian canola, a Toronto-area Chinese business association reportedly urged his office to remove Canada’s 100 percent surtax on those vehicles, citing support for Canadian farm exports.
Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada said that he had prepared over the past year for the “extreme tail risk” that President Trump might order military action against Canada, but disclosed that the two men have spoken “frequently,” even since trade talks collapsed last month, describing a tense, evolving relationship.
In a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times at its headquarters in Midtown Manhattan on Wednesday, Mr. Carney described in meticulous detail how he was systematically reducing Canada’s reliance on the United States for key technology — from space satellites to fighter jets — in an effort to make his country far less vulnerable to American threats. He outlined a plan to diversify Canada’s relationships and suppliers, and said that even with a different future president “we will be a better partner for the U.S. because of what we are doing.”
In the late 1600s, as hostilities between England and France built up, Parliament at Westminster took the step of moving from tariffs on French wine to an outright ban. The result was that French wine went from being 70% of the wine Britain imported prior to the Nine Years’ War to just three per cent in the 1720s.
It can only get ugly and Carney ain’t helping.
OTTAWA — Former prime minister Justin Trudeau said the U.S. is an “extremely unpredictable” partner because President Donald Trump’s administration is “no longer working” in the best interest of Americans.
The former prime minister shared his thoughts on the current Trump administration as part of a question and answer session with Brown University President Christina Paxson in Rhode Island on Tuesday.
President Donald Trump was wrong to launch his trade war on Canada, majorities of adults in both countries agree.
Now Canadians of all political stripes are rallying around their government, led by Prime Minister Mark Carney, while in the United States, even some self-identified MAGA voters are worried about the political fallout for Trump.
I never imagined Politico publishing such a piece!
Canadian Industry Minister Melanie Joly said there’s bipartisan political support for tariffs in the United States, raising the possibility the country’s manufacturers will face barriers to North America’s largest market long after Donald Trump’s presidency.
Joly is among a number of Canadian officials who have travelled to the U.S. over the past year and a half to encourage American opposition to Trump’s trade policies. Last week, she met with Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, and in June she held a meeting with Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro.
Duh.
Trump does not need Belarus to replace Canadian potash. He only needs it to make Canada less indispensable over time. And that should concern Ottawa far more than the headline itself
Donald Trump says the United States is working on a “massive” agreement to purchase potash from Belarus at substantially lower prices than it currently pays Canada. The announcement was quickly dismissed by some Canadian observers as economically unrealistic. That reaction may be premature.
