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Everybody is a trade minister in Mark Carney’s Cabinet. Donald Trump’s return to the presidency has ripped up decades of Canadian goodwill toward deeper economic integration with the United States. Nearly every senior minister is now involved in managing the fallout of America’s use of trade as a weapon — a situation the prime ministers office is treating as an...
President DONALD TRUMP is flirting with Canada’s worst-case scenario — setting the wheels in motion for the U.S. to pull out of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement.
A Conservative MP in Canada’s Parliament is considering joining the country’s Liberal Party, moving Prime Minister Mark Carney one step closer to securing a majority government and reflecting a concerted push on the part of Liberals to ensure Carney and their legislative agenda are safe until 2029. Nova Scotia MP Chris d’Entremont told POLITICO on Tuesday he is thinking about...
Some members of the Conservative caucus are privately trying to distance themselves from PIERRE POILIEVRE’s criticism of the RCMP, exposing a rift in the party as the House returns from Thanksgiving break. Playbook spoke with several Conservative MPs over the weekend, who suggested caucus is not aligned with their leader’s remarks, a rare sign of disagreement within the party’s typically...
BEHIND THE SCENES — They scrambled to get there on time, after the last-minute invite to DONALD TRUMP’s Gaza peace summit in Egypt over the weekend. But the president kept them waiting.
It’s now painfully obvious to Mexico and Canada that failing to strengthen bilateral ties before Donald Trump’s trade war was economic recklessness. When Prime Minister Mark Carney arrives in Mexico City on Thursday to meet President Claudia Sheinbaum, the leaders will be eager to send a strong message of North American unity — but not too strong. No one wants...
It could be a problem for Canada that Donald Trump doesn’t like Justin Trudeau. Trump’s surprise win in 2016 destabilized Trudeau’s government, which spent the next four years on war footing with its largest trading partner. Now the potential return of the former president has motivated Trudeau to turn on a “Team Canada” charm offensive to neutralize any bad blood...
REGAL POLITICS — Journalist STEPHEN MAHER has had a busy year and a half. He crisscrossed Eastern Canada and worked the phone to nab some 200+ interviews, including with JUSTIN TRUDEAU, in a bid to tell the definitive tale of the Trudeau years.
A year ago, Tucker Carlson was calling on Americans to invade and “liberate” Canada from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Now, he’s getting the red carpet treatment in Alberta.
Justin Trudeau could lose Canada’s next election because he’s just not as angry as the country he leads. The prime minister has been getting smoked in the polls. His rival is a savvy and fiery conservative dismissed at the outset by Trudeau’s inner circle as too cantankerous for mainstream appeal.