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Canada PM Mark Carney says old relationship with US 'is over'
BBC News ^ | March 27, 2025 | Jessica Murphy & Ali Abbas Ahmadi, Bernd Debusmann

Posted on 03/27/2025 5:02:10 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said that Canada's old relationship with the United States, "based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation, is over".

Speaking to reporters in Ottawa after a cabinet meeting, Carney said Canadians must "fundamentally reimagine our economy" in the face of US President Donald Trump's tariffs.

He said Canada would respond with retaliatory tariffs that will have "maximum impact" on the US.

Trump announced on Wednesday he would target imported vehicles and vehicle parts with a 25% tax, stating: "This is permanent."

Carney, the Liberal Party leader, called the original Canada-US Automotive Products Agreement signed in 1965 the most important deal in his lifetime.

"That's finished with these tariffs," he said in French.

He continued that Canada can sustain an auto industry with the US tariffs provided the government and business community work to "reimagine" and "retool" the industry.

Canada needs to build an economy Canadians can control, he said, and that would include rethinking it's trade relationship with other partners.

It remains to be seen whether Canadians can have a strong trading relationship with the United States going forward, he added.

Carney has switched his campaign plans ahead of next month's general election to confront the latest import duties.

The US has already partially imposed a blanket 25% tariff on Canadian goods, along with a 25% duty on all aluminium and steel imports. Canada has so far retaliated with about C$60bn ($42bn; £32bn) of tariffs on US goods.

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1 posted on 03/27/2025 5:02:10 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

It’ll cost you, pal.


2 posted on 03/27/2025 5:03:12 PM PDT by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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To: MinorityRepublican

The one that screwed us? Good.


3 posted on 03/27/2025 5:05:44 PM PDT by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back!)
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To: gundog

Cost him what? He’s already PM of some country, worst possible case he retires to a villa in southern France for the rest of his life.


4 posted on 03/27/2025 5:06:55 PM PDT by cmj328 (We live here.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

The communists are going on offense. Good luck comrade loser.


5 posted on 03/27/2025 5:08:32 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

He’ll run off to the ccp… and they’ll be waiting. Canadian sovereignty s/


6 posted on 03/27/2025 5:11:12 PM PDT by Track9 (Make haste slowly. )
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To: MinorityRepublican

You always find out who your real friends are when the money tree dries up.


7 posted on 03/27/2025 5:12:51 PM PDT by PrairieLady2 (USA: Land of the free, Because of the Brave.)
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To: gundog

They already bought Airbus and Siemens for big ticket purchases. Let’s see how their economy is as part of the EU. Car parts for VW and BMW, I think not.


8 posted on 03/27/2025 5:13:15 PM PDT by Waverunner
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To: MinorityRepublican

“Military cooperation” ?

You have to have a military to cooperate.


9 posted on 03/27/2025 5:17:45 PM PDT by llevrok (Keep buggering on!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Rather than whining about what was it is a smart move for them to move on but it will take them years to readjust when you consider exports to the US are 28% of Canada’s GDP while our exports to them are an insignificant 1.2% of our GDP. Now NATO should follow the same path. But I doubt they will not until we throw cold water in their face and formally withdraw to attend to our real vital national security interests in this hemisphere and Asia and building the Space Force to protect our homeland


10 posted on 03/27/2025 5:21:09 PM PDT by chuckee
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To: cmj328

He’ll be fine. Canada will be poorer for it, but he doesn’t care.


11 posted on 03/27/2025 5:25:36 PM PDT by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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To: MinorityRepublican

Does he not understand that the lumber they export to the US isn’t needed, we have trees and if we cut them down from time to time we wouldn’t have as many fires. Auto parts and pieces of autos can be made here, wheat? Our farmers can stop growing soy and go back to wheat. We’d be better off without soy.

Energy? Maybe NY would be willing to build some plants. We can work around it.


12 posted on 03/27/2025 5:27:34 PM PDT by McGavin999 ( A sense of humor is a sign of intelligence, leftists have no sense of humor, therefore……)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Our old relationship is over? Oh. They’re no longer going to be our favorite country to the north of the U.S.?


13 posted on 03/27/2025 5:30:08 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: MinorityRepublican

Hey, Mark, why don’t you recall your ambassador, break diplomatic relations, and close the border? That will really hurt the feelings of everyone in the US.


14 posted on 03/27/2025 5:31:30 PM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

He said Canada would respond with retaliatory tariffs that will have “maximum impact” on the US.

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According to Free Trade Ideologues and the theology they espouse.(See Senator Paul for an example)

Carney will only be hurting his own country with his retaliatory tariffs.

“We shall see.”

From my perspective, looking at their GDP & trade ratio, he’s entering a gunfight with a peashooter.


15 posted on 03/27/2025 5:35:37 PM PDT by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. )
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To: chuckee

I think those hosers have two options:

1.) Accept their role as dependent upon the U.S.

2.) Get off their frozen read ends and build a more diverse economy.


16 posted on 03/27/2025 5:39:19 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler
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To: MinorityRepublican
Canada imposes a 300% tariff on American dairy products. And that is not new. It is a longstanding tariff.

17 posted on 03/27/2025 5:55:12 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. — Psalm 106)
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... exports to the US are 28% of Canada’s GDP

They'll be fine, just have to tighten their belts a bit, and increase trade with Greenland... if Greenland needs their products...

18 posted on 03/27/2025 6:01:39 PM PDT by roadcat ( )
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To: MinorityRepublican

How dare Trump insist on Canada paying the same tarrifs that they impose on us.

Doesn’t he know that the globalist order is that the U.S. subsidize the World.


19 posted on 03/27/2025 6:01:41 PM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: MinorityRepublican

Ahhh, progress!


20 posted on 03/27/2025 6:03:09 PM PDT by Bshaw (A nefarious deceit is upon us all!)
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