Showing posts with label Mark Carney. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mark Carney. Show all posts
Monday, August 31, 2026
‘Trump Pushes Canada Out of NATO?’: Mark Carney Drops Stunning Europe Bomb Amid Tariff War
Thursday, August 27, 2026
Canada Stands Up to America as Trump Imposes 50% Tariffs on Its Closest Ally
Aug 27, 2026 | Donald Trump’s ludicrous tariff policy has become a defining feature of his second term, imposing costs on American businesses and consumers while raising serious questions about the limits of presidential power.
His escalating trade dispute with Canada, which has chosen to resist rather than submit to American pressure, highlights both the economic and constitutional consequences of his approach.
With courts challenging the legality of his tariffs, Congress and the judiciary now face a crucial test of whether they will enforce constitutional limits and prevent the president from using trade policy to punish American workers and consumers.
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His escalating trade dispute with Canada, which has chosen to resist rather than submit to American pressure, highlights both the economic and constitutional consequences of his approach.
With courts challenging the legality of his tariffs, Congress and the judiciary now face a crucial test of whether they will enforce constitutional limits and prevent the president from using trade policy to punish American workers and consumers.
ANTHONY DAVIS can be supported on Patreon here »
Tuesday, August 25, 2026
Donald Trump Just Started a Fight He Can't Win | Steve Schmidt"
Trump’s Trade War with Canada Could Get ‘Very Nasty’ | Sarah Baxter
Aug 25, 2026 | “It could get very nasty indeed, economically, for both sides.”
Trump’s latest attack on Canada is “particularly farcical”, with threats to increase tariffs on Canadian car imports. However, a trade war could damage both countries, says Sarah Baxter, director of the Marie Colvin Center for International Reporting.
Trump’s latest attack on Canada is “particularly farcical”, with threats to increase tariffs on Canadian car imports. However, a trade war could damage both countries, says Sarah Baxter, director of the Marie Colvin Center for International Reporting.
Mark Carney Says Canada Can’t Accept US Trade Deal That Would Weaken French Language
THE GUARDIAN: Prime minister praised for rejecting US trade proposal as Trump shows little interest in retreating from dispute
Screenshot taken from this Guardian article. | Prime Minister Mark Carney, left, and Canada-US trade minister Dominic LeBlanc at a news conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Saturday. Photograph: Patrick Doyle/The Canadian Press via AP
Mark Carney said on Monday that while American negotiators saw the French language in Canada as an “irritant … in Quebec, these are rights,” days after receiving widespread praise from political leaders for rejecting a US trade proposal that many perceived as weakening the country’s Francophone culture.
The prime minister’s remarks came hours after the US president, Donald Trump, showed little interest in retreating from the spat, posting on social media that Canada had been “ripping off the United States of America for years” and threatening a swath of new, economically devastating tariffs on cars and trucks.
Carney instructed his negotiators to walk away from trade talks last week. Tariffs on an array of Canadian products took effect over the weekend, affecting around 5% of Canada’s exports to the US, and Canada said it will retaliate in early September.
On Monday, Carney toured a shipyard with Quebec’s premier, telling attendees Canada “could not accept” a proposed trade deal that would have weakened French language protections after trade talks collapsed between the two countries last week, adding that his government “will not give what they have asked”.
The prime minister’s decision to abandon trade talks with the US spurred declarations from political leaders and pundits in Canada that the country is now fully locked into an economic war with its longtime ally. » | Leyland Cecco in Toronto | Monday, August 24, 2026
How lucky Canadians are! They are being led by a cultured gentleman with oodles of refinement, sophistication, intelligence, and class. Americans, by contrast, are being led by a philistine! — © Mark Alexander
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From ‘Fortress North America’ to All-Out Trade War: How the U.S.-Canada Talks Collapsed: Detailed accounts of the final hours of the negotiations show that, while the United States offered Canada what it said was the best deal of any country, what Canada had to give up in exchange was seen as unthinkable. »
U.S. Tariffs Could Price Canadian Firms Out of U.S. and Threaten Thousands of Jobs: The 50 percent tariffs President Trump imposed on Canadian exports to the United States will make it impossible for many Canadian companies to continue to sell to the U.S. market, economists say. »
Mark Carney said on Monday that while American negotiators saw the French language in Canada as an “irritant … in Quebec, these are rights,” days after receiving widespread praise from political leaders for rejecting a US trade proposal that many perceived as weakening the country’s Francophone culture.
The prime minister’s remarks came hours after the US president, Donald Trump, showed little interest in retreating from the spat, posting on social media that Canada had been “ripping off the United States of America for years” and threatening a swath of new, economically devastating tariffs on cars and trucks.
Carney instructed his negotiators to walk away from trade talks last week. Tariffs on an array of Canadian products took effect over the weekend, affecting around 5% of Canada’s exports to the US, and Canada said it will retaliate in early September.
On Monday, Carney toured a shipyard with Quebec’s premier, telling attendees Canada “could not accept” a proposed trade deal that would have weakened French language protections after trade talks collapsed between the two countries last week, adding that his government “will not give what they have asked”.
The prime minister’s decision to abandon trade talks with the US spurred declarations from political leaders and pundits in Canada that the country is now fully locked into an economic war with its longtime ally. » | Leyland Cecco in Toronto | Monday, August 24, 2026
How lucky Canadians are! They are being led by a cultured gentleman with oodles of refinement, sophistication, intelligence, and class. Americans, by contrast, are being led by a philistine! — © Mark Alexander
ALSO READ:
From ‘Fortress North America’ to All-Out Trade War: How the U.S.-Canada Talks Collapsed: Detailed accounts of the final hours of the negotiations show that, while the United States offered Canada what it said was the best deal of any country, what Canada had to give up in exchange was seen as unthinkable. »
U.S. Tariffs Could Price Canadian Firms Out of U.S. and Threaten Thousands of Jobs: The 50 percent tariffs President Trump imposed on Canadian exports to the United States will make it impossible for many Canadian companies to continue to sell to the U.S. market, economists say. »
Sunday, August 23, 2026
US-Canada Trade War: The Cost of Fighting Back | DW News
Trump reagiert auf Kanadas Gegenzölle mit 51.-Staat-Parole
BERLINER ZEITUNG: Nach dem Scheitern der Handelsgespräche zwischen den USA und Kanada kündigt Ottawa Vergeltungszölle an. Die neuen Maßnahmen sollen Anfang September in Kraft treten.
Dieser Screenshot stammt aus diesem Artikel. | US-Präsident Donald Trump und Kanadas Premierminister Mark Carney bei einem Treffen im südkoreanischen Gyeongju im Oktober 2025 | © Adrian Wyld/imago
Im Handelsstreit zwischen den USA und Kanada hat US-Präsident Donald Trump am Sonntag öffentlich auf die angekündigten kanadischen Gegenzölle reagiert und dabei seine Rhetorik vom möglichen 51. US-Bundesstaat erneuert.
„Kanada will die Vorteile eines Staates haben, ohne einer zu sein“, schrieb Trump auf seiner Plattform Truth Social. Zudem warf er dem Nachbarland vor, US-Landwirten jahrelang hohe Zölle auferlegt zu haben. Damit sei nun Schluss.
Trumps Wortmeldung folgt auf das Scheitern tagelanger Verhandlungen und das Inkrafttreten neuer US-Zölle auf kanadische Waren am Samstag. Die Aufschläge in Höhe von 50 Prozent betreffen laut Bericht der Nachrichtenagentur The Canadian Press Ausfuhren im Wert von rund 28 Milliarden kanadischen Dollar, darunter erstmals auch Waren, die unter das nordamerikanische Freihandelsabkommen USMCA fallen – etwa Hockeyschläger, Honig, ätherische Öle und Milchprodukte. » | Peter Steiniger | Sonntag, 23. August 2026
Im Handelsstreit zwischen den USA und Kanada hat US-Präsident Donald Trump am Sonntag öffentlich auf die angekündigten kanadischen Gegenzölle reagiert und dabei seine Rhetorik vom möglichen 51. US-Bundesstaat erneuert.
„Kanada will die Vorteile eines Staates haben, ohne einer zu sein“, schrieb Trump auf seiner Plattform Truth Social. Zudem warf er dem Nachbarland vor, US-Landwirten jahrelang hohe Zölle auferlegt zu haben. Damit sei nun Schluss.
Trumps Wortmeldung folgt auf das Scheitern tagelanger Verhandlungen und das Inkrafttreten neuer US-Zölle auf kanadische Waren am Samstag. Die Aufschläge in Höhe von 50 Prozent betreffen laut Bericht der Nachrichtenagentur The Canadian Press Ausfuhren im Wert von rund 28 Milliarden kanadischen Dollar, darunter erstmals auch Waren, die unter das nordamerikanische Freihandelsabkommen USMCA fallen – etwa Hockeyschläger, Honig, ätherische Öle und Milchprodukte. » | Peter Steiniger | Sonntag, 23. August 2026
Canadian PM Carney Reveals What Trump Demanded from Canada for a Trade Deal
Canada ‘at War’ With U.S. After Trade Talks Collapse, Carney Says
Saturday, August 22, 2026
Canada-U.S. Trade War Escalates as Talks Collapse
THE NEW YORK TIMES: Intense negotiations to stave off new levies by the Trump administration ended in an impasse as Mark Carney suspended talks. U.S. tariffs on Canada, and retaliatory tariffs on the U.S., will come into effect.
Screenshot taken from this NYT article. | Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada said he suspended the trade talks because the American side introduced last-minute terms that ”called into question the reliability of any deal.” Credit: Greg Locke/Reuters
Crucial trade talks between the United States and Canada to stave off punishing new tariffs by the Trump administration on Canadian goods collapsed late Friday, with Canada saying it would retaliate “dollar for dollar.”
Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada said he had decided to suspend the talks because the American side had introduced last-minute terms that were “unfair, uneconomic, and called into question the reliability of any deal.”
He added that the talks, which had been going on for weeks and had intensified in the past few days, had marked important progress but had ultimately “not been enough to meet our objectives for Canadians.”
United States Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told reporters that Canada had walked away from the negotiating table, minutes before a deadline ushering in new 50 percent tariffs by the Trump administration on a broad range of Canadian goods. » | Matina Stevis-Gridneff, Ian Austen and Ana Swanson | Matina Stevis-Gridneff reported from Toronto and Ian Austen from Ottawa. Ana Swanson reported from Washington | Published: Friday, August 21, 2016. Updated: Saturday, August 22, 2026
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Carney Stands Up to Trump in Trade War Despite the Risks: Canada’s prime minister walked away from what he thought was a bad trade deal with the United States. Many Canadians are behind him, but it will be costly. »
Crucial trade talks between the United States and Canada to stave off punishing new tariffs by the Trump administration on Canadian goods collapsed late Friday, with Canada saying it would retaliate “dollar for dollar.”
Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada said he had decided to suspend the talks because the American side had introduced last-minute terms that were “unfair, uneconomic, and called into question the reliability of any deal.”
He added that the talks, which had been going on for weeks and had intensified in the past few days, had marked important progress but had ultimately “not been enough to meet our objectives for Canadians.”
United States Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told reporters that Canada had walked away from the negotiating table, minutes before a deadline ushering in new 50 percent tariffs by the Trump administration on a broad range of Canadian goods. » | Matina Stevis-Gridneff, Ian Austen and Ana Swanson | Matina Stevis-Gridneff reported from Toronto and Ian Austen from Ottawa. Ana Swanson reported from Washington | Published: Friday, August 21, 2016. Updated: Saturday, August 22, 2026
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Carney Stands Up to Trump in Trade War Despite the Risks: Canada’s prime minister walked away from what he thought was a bad trade deal with the United States. Many Canadians are behind him, but it will be costly. »
Thursday, August 06, 2026
Canada's Prime Minister Just Burst Out Laughing at Trump
Friday, June 05, 2026
A Leader Canada Can Be Proud Of…
Monday, May 04, 2026
Carney Pulls Canada Closer to Europe as Both Struggle With Trump
THE NEW YORK TIMES: At a summit of European leaders, the Canadian prime minister was a special guest offering deals and friendship to jittery allies.
Screenshot taken from this NYT article. | Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada arriving for a meeting of the European Political Community on Monday in Yerevan, Armenia. | Anthony Pizzoferrato/Associated Press
Canada and the European Union are turning commiseration and anxiety over their turbulent relationships with the United States under President Trump into a deepening bond.
On Monday, Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada joined a summit of European leaders in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, putting his country at the heart of some of Europe’s biggest priorities. He was the first non-European head of government to be invited to the gathering, known as the European Political Community summit.
Mr. Carney’s relentless pursuit of new, expanded alliances to lessen Canada’s dependence on the United States coming as Mr. Trump threatens to unravel decades of economic integration, has effectively led Canada to be welcomed as something of an honorary European Union member.
“Integration is being used as a weapon by some, and the rules are not constraining the hegemons,” Mr. Carney said on Monday at the Yerevan summit — hinting at, but not mentioning, the United States — in comments that echoed his landmark speech in Davos, Switzerland, in January. » | Matina Stevis-Gridneff | Matina Stevis-Gridneff reported from Yerevan, Armenia, while traveling with Prime Minister Mark Carney. | Monday, May 4, 2026
Canada and the European Union are turning commiseration and anxiety over their turbulent relationships with the United States under President Trump into a deepening bond.
On Monday, Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada joined a summit of European leaders in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, putting his country at the heart of some of Europe’s biggest priorities. He was the first non-European head of government to be invited to the gathering, known as the European Political Community summit.
Mr. Carney’s relentless pursuit of new, expanded alliances to lessen Canada’s dependence on the United States coming as Mr. Trump threatens to unravel decades of economic integration, has effectively led Canada to be welcomed as something of an honorary European Union member.
“Integration is being used as a weapon by some, and the rules are not constraining the hegemons,” Mr. Carney said on Monday at the Yerevan summit — hinting at, but not mentioning, the United States — in comments that echoed his landmark speech in Davos, Switzerland, in January. » | Matina Stevis-Gridneff | Matina Stevis-Gridneff reported from Yerevan, Armenia, while traveling with Prime Minister Mark Carney. | Monday, May 4, 2026
Tuesday, April 28, 2026
Canada Setting Up Investment Fund to Distance Economy From U.S.
THE NEW YORK TIMES: The sovereign wealth fund announced by Prime Minister Mark Carney will be far smaller than ones in other oil producers like Norway and the Middle East.
Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada said Monday that his country would establish a pool of money similar to those used by major oil exporters like Norway to make investments as he seeks to make the Canadian economy less dependent on the United States.
Known as a sovereign wealth fund, it will focus on investments in Canadian infrastructure and will be operated like a private company. Canadians will also be able to invest in the fund.
Sovereign wealth funds are large pots of investment money that are generally managed independently, though they sometimes receive broad direction from governments about where they can put their funds.
In creating one of it own, Canada is following the lead of other countries, among them oil-rich nations in the Middle Eastern.
“This will be a Government of Canada fund, but more importantly, it will be a people’s fund, it will be your fund,” Mr. Carney told reporters in Ottawa. “Many countries that are blessed with natural resources, like Norway, have them. Canada has not until now.” » | Ian Austen | Reporting from the steam locomotive hall at a science and technology museum in Ottawa where Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke.| Monday, April 27, 2026
Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada said Monday that his country would establish a pool of money similar to those used by major oil exporters like Norway to make investments as he seeks to make the Canadian economy less dependent on the United States.
Known as a sovereign wealth fund, it will focus on investments in Canadian infrastructure and will be operated like a private company. Canadians will also be able to invest in the fund.
Sovereign wealth funds are large pots of investment money that are generally managed independently, though they sometimes receive broad direction from governments about where they can put their funds.
In creating one of it own, Canada is following the lead of other countries, among them oil-rich nations in the Middle Eastern.
“This will be a Government of Canada fund, but more importantly, it will be a people’s fund, it will be your fund,” Mr. Carney told reporters in Ottawa. “Many countries that are blessed with natural resources, like Norway, have them. Canada has not until now.” » | Ian Austen | Reporting from the steam locomotive hall at a science and technology museum in Ottawa where Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke.| Monday, April 27, 2026
Sunday, April 12, 2026
Carney Confronts Trump Policies in Explosive Canada-First Speech
Mark Carney is a great leader. — © Mark Alexander
Thursday, February 12, 2026
Attaque meurtrière au Canada: le pays est «en deuil», affirme Mark Carney
Saturday, January 24, 2026
Charlie Angus Says Trump Wants Revenge for Carney's Davos Speech
Mark Carney's speech in Davos was fantastic. — © Mark Alexander
Wednesday, January 21, 2026
Canada Prepares for US Invasion - and Mark Carney Declares US Hegemony Over
Trump is the West’s, the world’s, worst NIGHTMARE. — © Mark Alexander
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