Carney Slams U.S.-Canada Trade Proposal and Vows Retaliation
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Prime Minister Mark Carney addressed Canadians on Saturday morning, hours after he ordered negotiators to suspend U.S. trade talks despite President Trump’s punishing tariffs.
Listen · 5:17 min Share full article Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada said that he had pulled negotiators out of trade talks with the United States because the Trump administration had “asked too much and offered too little.” Credit... Patrick Doyle/The Canadian Press, via Associated Press By Ian Austen
The morning after he pulled negotiators from trade talks in Washington and set off a new round of American tariffs, Prime Minister Mark Carney on Saturday explained to Canadians why he walked away, calling the U.S. proposal “a bad deal.”
“We’ve recognized from the start that America has changed,” Mr. Carney said. “We recognize that sometimes, its signature is written in pencil.”
“We cannot accept what they offered and we will not give what they asked,” he added. “We were not prepared to compromise Canada’s sovereignty or undermine our key industries.”
“You’re at war when you’re attacked, and we got attacked,” he later said.
The latest U.S. tariffs, he said, “are designed to hurt and divide us. They are a miscalculation because Canadians will always take care of each other. We know we’re stronger together.”
On Friday night Mr. Carney blamed unspecified last-minute demands for the collapse of negotiations , saying that they were “unfair, uneconomic and called into question the reliability of any deal.” Minutes later, the United States went ahead with previous plans and introduced 50 percent tariffs on $20 billion worth of Canadian exports.
Mr. Carney immediately promised that Canada will retaliate “dollar for dollar.”
On Saturday, he said that American negotiators “asked too much and offered too little.”
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