If Mark Carney did blow the trade talks with the Americans last month for political reasons, the latest poll by Leger for Postmedia shows it is working.
Carney’s Liberals now sit at 49% nationally, while 57% approve of the government’s direction and 58% approve of his performance.
President Donald Trump expressed optimism about resolving a trade fight with Canada and downplayed the prospect of quitting a continental trade pact, in a potential sign of de-escalating tensions between the two countries.
Trump was asked Saturday whether he intended to have the US leave the US-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement during a meeting with Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin in Dublin.
“We’re doing great. We’re going to have a great relationship with Mexico. We actually have a good one with Canada,” Trump said.
Canadians are well aware of the damage U.S. President Donald Trump has inflicted on this country by signing off on tariffs targeting about $27.6 billion in Canadian products.
But thanks to his unsuccessful management of the Iran war, Trump’s other hand is effectively writing cheques to the Canadian economy, drawing on funds paid by U.S. consumers at the gas pump.
In fact, the extra money now flowing into Canadian coffers — for context, Canada supplied the U.S. with more than 60 per cent of its crude oil imports last year — will go a long way to making up tariff losses, and could end up more than compensating for them.
Like many Canadians, Tom Reid isn’t crossing the US-Canada border as often these days. But he needed a haircut.
The woman who cuts his hair lives in International Falls, Minnesota – her “sister is married to my wife’s cousin”, he explained – and so Reid, whose duty free shop in Fort Frances, Ontario, has to travel to her.
That’s how it goes for the residents of the two towns, divided by the Rainy River and an international border. They’re longtime friends and, in many cases, family. People cross the border frequently to shop, dine, go bowling, take their kids to sports and visit each other.
U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer might not like to think of it as a trade “war,” but whatever you call it — a difference of opinion? an incongruity? the unpleasantness? — it’s now been going on for more than 19 months.
In February 2025, Donald Trump, in defiance of a free trade deal he himself signed in 2018, first announced tariffs on a number of Canadian products.
And it seems now it could be several more months before hostilities are reduced, let alone ceased.
Is it just me or is the CBC starting to walk things back for Carney?
Automaker Stellantis NV STLA-N says it has signed a preliminary agreement to sell its idled Brampton, Ont., assembly plant to armoured carmaker Roshel.
The Brampton factory stopped production in 2023 to retool to make the Jeep Compass, but the work was paused shortly after the U.S. placed 25-per-cent tariffs on Canadian-made cars in 2025. Stellantis last year said the Compass would instead be made in the U.S., leaving the future of the plant and 2,200 laid-off workers up in the air.
If nothing else, the trade war President Trump started against Canada last year feels relentless.
Below, you can find all of our trade articles from the past week — and there are a number of them. But let’s recap what’s transpired and look at where all of this may be headed.
A handful of U.S. states with some of the most competitive congressional races in the country are caught in the crosshairs of President Donald Trump’s escalating trade war with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.
While the average American may not feel the tariffs — all told, they affect just 6 percent of $715 billion in annual cross-border trade — key industries in Maine, Michigan, Iowa, Ohio and Pennsylvania are likely to feel the added costs.
WASHINGTON — Canada might seem an unlikely target for a U.S. trade war.
No country on Earth buys as much from the United States as its northern neighbour. For American farmers, Canada is second only to Mexico as an export market.
A North American trade pact — negotiated by U.S. President Donald Trump in his first term — means that most American products enter Canada duty-free. Rankings of the world’s most open economies usually put Canada near the top.
Carney poked the bear.
Carney is a liar, if not he would have released the trade talk transcripts to allow Canadians an opportunity to make up their own minds.
Instead Carney treats Canadians with contempt, leading the gullible Elbow people in a Children’s crusade.
VDH destroys Carney.
Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew called Donald Trump’s tariffs “immoral” after Canadian trade talks with the United States (US) fell apart.
That’s quite a charge coming from a Canadian politician.
“[T]he government of Manitoba is 100 percent behind the prime minister’s direction to retaliate against Donald Trump’s unjustified and immoral tariffs,” Kinew said at a press conference at the Manitoba legislature on August 22.
Trumpism is the lowest stage of imperialism. “We’re not going to invade Greenland. We’re going to buy it,” Donald Trump reportedly told the annual black-tie dinner on 1 February of the private Alfalfa Club, an assemblage of prominent Washington figures, a number of whom he had publicly humiliated, and others he was investigating or suing. “It’s never been my intention to make Greenland the 51st state. I want to make Canada the 51st state. Greenland will be the 52nd state. Venezuela can be 53rd.” The room greeted several of his remarks with dead silence. His cosplay as the Pirate King was not received as a good-humored takeoff from a Gilbert and Sullivan opera. He went on. “So many people in the room I hate,” he said in a display of honesty. “Most of you I like,” he claimed. Then, at his peak euphoria, he flew off to Mar-a-Lago to plan his attack on Iran, which took place 27 days later.
Guardian ahead.
At a border crossing in B.C. on Tuesday, Premier David Eby showcased one of the more embarrassing side effects of the ongoing trade war with the United States. After a performance by a rapper named OGR-Scintilla, who performs parodies of pop songs using Canadian-themed lyrics, the B.C. Premier took to the podium wearing a red-and-black plaid jacket, which he dubbed “the single most Canadian piece of clothing” he owns.
"Everybody at the bar drinking Timmies.”
Premier @Dave_Eby opens his anti-Trump press conference with Canadian parody rapper @ogr_scintilla's version of ‘Tipsy.’ pic.twitter.com/MZhx7lhiVb
— TrendingPolitics.ca (@TrendPolCa) September 8, 2026
Fewer than 16,000 Chinese-made electric vehicles have entered Canada since January under a trade deal struck between Prime Minister Mark Carney and Chinese President Xi Jinping as part of what Ottawa described as a “new strategic partnership” aimed at easing tensions and strengthening economic ties.
That’s less than one-third of the 49,000 Chinese-made EVs that Canada said would be allowed into this country in 2026 under the deal, which vastly reduced tariff rates. Beijing in turn agreed to scale back retaliatory tariffs on Canadian seafood, canola seed and other farm products.
There are few cows in Toronto, but U.S. dairy tariffs pose a significant threat to jobs at local milk-product processors, according to an updated University of Toronto tariff-tracking tool.
Researchers updating a map from last October tracking U.S. tariff impacts on Canadian cities, released a major refresh on Wednesday that reveals the potentially crushing impacts of Trump’s new 50-per-cent levies on a host of Canadian imports.
As we enter general election season, we have disruptions in the news and in the economy: a nagging USA-Canada trade war that seems to accelerate at the worst possible times.
In August, the Canadians walked away from a trade agreement to which their negotiators had already agreed, when Prime Minister Mark Carney recalled them specifically to create a fight.
