Trump is aiming for big concessions on trade, Carney warns Canada voters
Mark Carney said that he expects US president Donald Trump to try to extract “great concessions” from Canada in the negotiations, and that he takes seriously the president’s declared desire to turn the country into an American state.
“Take what the president literally says. I consider it literally. I always have,” Canadian Prime Minister told reporters on the last weekend before the national elections.
“From the start, I took it seriously. Because of this, it pushes our actions, which pushes our response to their tariffs.” Canada has averages against American definitions with its import taxes over tens of billions of dollars in US -made goods.
Trump said in an interview published this week that he “does not really wander” when he talks about turning Canada into the 51st American state. He repeated, without evidence, claiming that the United States is spending hundreds of billions of dollars annually “to care for Canada.” The vast majority of Canadians oppose the idea of joining the United States.
However, Canada’s economy is vulnerable to Trump’s commercial protection, however, about three quarters of its exports go to the United States, including almost all oil and gas exports.
Carney, 60, is a campaign in the Battle Square province in Ontario on the last weekend of the campaign. Canadians vote on Monday, and most opinion polls show the liberal Carney party with tight progress over the Conservative Party, led by Pierre Bouleever.
The latest poll from Leger Marketing includes liberals of about 43 % and conservatives by 39 %, with Carne maintains a 10 -point feature on the issue of who will make the best prime minister. Leger found that the liberals made a lot in Quebec, but they have smaller progress in Ontario; The two provinces control the majority of seats in the country’s House of Commons. Conservatives are the dominant political party in a large part of Western Canada.
Carney was based on his campaign on the topic that Canada has no choice but to formulate stronger alliances with the rest of the world, while re -negotiating its relationship with the United States.
“America wants our land, our resources, our water and our country. President Trump tries to break us so that America can possess us,” the supporters said on Saturday.
Trump has submitted a number of commercial complaints – saying that Canada makes it very difficult for the United States to do business in sectors including banking and dairy products. The president also does not like Canadian factories to issue more than a million cars and trucks annually to the United States.
Carney later asked a reporter if he believed Trump would try to use military force against Canada to achieve his goals.
Carney and Trump spoke on the phone, but they have not met personally since the former central bank from Justin Trudeau took over last month.
This story was originally shown on Fortune.com
2025-04-26 17:03:00
