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Behind closed doors at Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Canada Investment Summit, some of the world’s biggest investors see an upside to the country’s trade war with the United States. International investors, including allies of President Donald Trump, sequestered themselves in a luxury hotel in Toronto’s posh Yorkville area this week, lured by Carney’s new investment write-offs and a pitch built...
Canada’s fight against President Donald Trump’s trade war is not Janice Charette’s first high-stakes geopolitical divorce. Prime Minister Mark Carney pulled the self-described hockey mom and esteemed former top public servant out of retirement earlier this year and into a job as Canada’s chief U.S. trade negotiator to lead the technocratic side of trade talks with Washington...
The U.S.-Canada trade standoff is threatening to stretch past the midterm elections. The White House is shrugging off the threat. With a week to go before Canada imposes its retaliatory tariffs — aimed at key industries in states like Ohio and Texas with competitive Senate elections — tensions between Washington and Ottawa are at a steady simmer, with no sign...
United States Trade Representative JAMIESON GREER says the U.S. administration is preparing to hit back should Canada’s latest retaliatory tariffs come into effect on Sept. 8. In an exclusive interview with POLITICO’s DASHA BURNS, Greer said Canada “could see additional tariffs and you could see import bans or prohibitions similar to the ones that Canada has imposed on us earlier.”...
U.S. Trade Rep. Jamieson Greer says he’s “given lots of proposals to the Canadians.” Prime Minister Mark Carney is facing growing criticism at home over stalled U.S.-Canada trade talks, and fresh comments from the Trump administration suggest his concessions have done little to move Washington. There hasn’t been “a lot” of movement in bilateral negotiations with Canada, U.S. Trade Representative...
One day after President Donald Trump declared the United States doesn’t need anything from Canada, his ambassador in Ottawa offered a notable exception: potash. Canada is the world’s top exporter of the essential fertilizer used to maximize crop production — and it’s one commodity U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra said the United States needs as the fate of free...
One year after rescuing Canada’s Liberal Party from electoral disaster, Mark Carney has strengthened his hold on power. The rookie prime minister clinched a razor-thin majority in special elections on Monday night, bolstered by five defections during the past five months from progressive and conservative parties to the Liberals. Results are still being counted, but Liberal candidate Danielle Martin claimed...
Danielle Martin was going door to door meeting voters when a woman, newly released from the hospital, really wanted to show off her stitches. “I said, ‘I’m really sorry, but I don’t feel like that would be appropriate,’” Martin, a high-profile family doctor-turned-Liberal candidate, recalled with a laugh. “I’m not sure my insurance covers that.”
One year into the trade war, Canadians are feeling more patriotic and more convinced the United States is a worse place under Donald Trump. And as the president dangles the fate of North American free trade above a wood chipper, a split has emerged between business leaders worried about bottom lines and Canadians who are simply over the president’s provocations...
With the fate of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement on the line, Conservative MP JAMIL JIVANI is positioning himself as a key cross-border interlocutor. Jivani even scored a White House tour that culminated in a Trump run-in. Not bad.
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.