CAE Inc. says it has secured a $300-million contract to continue training U.S. air force crews, even as U.S. President Donald Trump has moved to ban Canadian companies from government procurement. The Montreal-based flight simulator maker says the deal granted to its American defence division extends CAE's role as the main contractor schooling U.S. aircrews on the C-130 Hercules military...
U.S. President Donald Trump says the United States is working on a deal to buy potash from Belarus in a bid to reduce dependence on Canadian fertilizer. In a social media post Monday morning, Trump said prices would be "substantially less" than American buyers pay to Canadian exporters.
Mexico is planning to buy more goods from the United States and reduce imports from other nations as part of the review of the US-Mexico-Canada (USMCA) trade agreement, President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Monday. "The United States is asking for its so-called trade deficit to be reduced," Sheinbaum said in her daily morning press conference.
Reaching a deal with southern neighbours will provide long-term certainty for Canadian economy
In the early days of the world’s stupidest trade war, outsiders seemed impressed, amused and somehow surprised when Canada pushed back by yanking American booze from our stores, booing The Star-Spangled Banner and dishing out retaliatory tariffs. The same punchline kept surfacing online and among late-night TV hosts: “Do you know how obnoxious you have to be to tick off...
In an address to the European Parliament, Prime Minister Mark Carney welcomed the “ambition” to become the European Union’s first associate member. Speaking Thursday from Strasbourg, France, Carney said an enhanced partnership with the EU will be put up for debate and a final vote in Parliament.
After further escalating his trade war Wednesday, U.S. President Donald Trump said if Canada becomes the first associate member of the European Union it could be a "hostile act." Speaking to reporters in North Carolina, the president said if it's done with "bad intentions" he will "put very heavy tariffs on Europe." Trump also called Canada a "terrible trade partner"...
U.S. President Donald Trump signed an order today directing federal agencies overseeing government procurement in the United States to remove all products of Canadian origin. The move is the latest escalation of the trade war by the Trump administration after negotiations between Canada and the United States broke down last month. Trump first threatened to remove all Canadian-origin products from...
A parade of some of the world’s biggest business names – from bankers to pension funds, venture capital companies to energy behemoths – took the stage at this week’s Canada Investment Summit in an effort to jumpstart billions in new investments. In the crowd, investors from more than 30 countries and representing more than $120 trillion in assets heard a...
Former prime minister Stephen Harper says the federal government had "no choice" but to walk away from trade talks with the United States. Delivering closing remarks at Canada's first-ever national investment summit Tuesday, Harper said the move was necessary and that Canada needs to reduce its reliance on the United States. "It is clear that the current U.S. administration views...
Amid comments from U.S. President Donald Trump over the weekend that his administration could reach a trade deal with Canada “fairly soon,” Prime Minister Mark Carney says he still has hope. In an interview with Bloomberg on Monday, when asked for an update on negotiations with the U.S., Carney reiterated what he has said several times in recent weeks: that...
Canadian exports to China rocketed by 30 per cent in the first half of 2026, with overall trade up 3.6 per cent year over year, according to Statistics Canada data analyzed by researchers. The numbers, part of a new report published by the Canada China Business Council and the University of Alberta’s China Institute, appear to reflect the re-engagement between...
Some sports organizations and companies are urging governments on both sides of the border to suspend sports-related tariffs, warning of heightened economic challenges and waning participation in healthy activities. The trade war between Canada and the United States has been escalating for weeks after talks on a trade deal collapsed in mid-August. The next day, U.S. President Donald Trump imposed...
U.S. President Donald Trump predicted his administration could reach a trade deal with Canada “fairly soon,” after repeating claims his country had been “ripped off” by its northern neighbour. Trump made the comment while taking questions from reporters in Ireland alongside that country’s Taoiseach, or prime minister, Micheál Martin. A journalist had asked if he is considering withdrawing from the...
U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer might not like to think of it as a trade "war," but whatever you call it — a difference of opinion? an incongruity? the unpleasantness? — it's now been going on for more than 19 months. In February 2025, Donald Trump, in defiance of a free trade deal he himself signed in 2018, first announced...
In retaliating against Donald Trump’s tariffs after walking away from the bargaining table, Prime Minister Mark Carney set Canada apart from most of the U.S.’s other trading partners, who hastily agreed to lopsided deals in a bid to appease the mercurial President. He also returned to the hardball strategy Ottawa employed during Mr. Trump’s first term – hitting back at...
It’s hard to imagine a more dramatic political contrast than the one unfolding on opposite sides of the Canada-U.S. border. Mark Carney is fighting a trade war with Donald Trump, taking the occasional verbal punch from the American president and imposing retaliatory tariffs on U.S. products.
Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc says that while Canada isn't currently in official trade negotiations with the U.S., officials on both sides are still talking. LeBlanc is in Banff, Alta, for the two-day Liberal cabinet retreat, where the ongoing trade war with the United States is a key topic. He says he has no meetings in Washington scheduled but he...
Prime Minister Carney is in Banff, Opposition leader Pierre Poilievre is in New York, and for this moment at least, they're towing somewhat the same line. They're putting Canada first in the trade fight against the United States, leaving criticism of each other in the background. The latest on where we are on this story, and a lot more, with...
Canada’s oil and mineral resources can help alleviate US inflation pressures, but the Trump administration needs to back off its tariff policies against its northern neighbor, the leader of the country’s Conservative Party said.
Prime Minister Mark Carney says the federal government is still studying the United States' latest tariffs and import bans as it considers whether to adjust its own retaliatory tariffs. Speaking to reporters on Thursday in Banff, Alta., where he is attending a two-day cabinet retreat, the prime minister said that while the measures are significant for some sectors, they are...
U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra says Canadian politicians need to tone down their rhetoric as Ottawa and Washington remain locked in a bitter trade dispute but declined to say whether U.S. President Donald Trump should do the same. Speaking to CTV News after arriving in Gander, N.L., for a ceremony marking the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist...
New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt has ordered the province's public sector to stop buying American products when Canadian substitutes are available, saying the move is in response to the latest round of U.S. tariffs. As well, Holt announced today that her government will ban the purchase of U.S. goods and services for contracts valued at more than $5 million, starting...
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government announced Wednesday it will scale back its environmental review process for major energy projects, a move it hopes will streamline project approvals as the trade war between Canada and the United States continues to escalate. On Wednesday, Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne met with business leaders in Edmonton to discuss Alberta energy projects and affordability. He...
The Carney government says it does not view U.S. President Donald Trump‘s latest moves in the tariff dispute — which included for the first time an outright import ban on certain Canadian products — as a dramatic escalation that warrants an immediate response in kind by Canada. A senior Canadian government official, speaking Wednesday on a background-only basis, said the...
The AfD victory in Germany is no isolated case. Canada should dedicate resources to coming up with off-ramps and make a deal with the U.S. Prime Minister Mark Carney’s “forward guidance” videos have proven adept at fostering populist tactics in the services of mainstream politics. Voters across the western world have been drawn to conspiracy theories and demagogues because they...
So we are at war – a trade war, to be sure, but with some of the qualities of a shooting war. It is not a war for our physical survival, but it is very much about our survival as an independent country, against an aggressor that shows every sign of wishing to make an example of us: a warning...
Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says the latest trade war escalation from the United States would have a minor impact on his province. He says U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs remain on some key Saskatchewan exports, including honey and wooden furniture, but his executive orders signed Tuesday would drop tariffs on other exports, like road salt and electrical panels.
In interview with Financial Times, Jamieson Greer says Canadians have 'whipped up' dispute into 'giant thing' U.S. President Donald Trump's top trade official says it's "unhinged" for Canadian leaders to characterize the administration's tariffs as a trade war against Canada.
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...
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is heading to New York Wednesday night, and will stay to participate in ceremonies commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks Friday, according to a senior Conservative source. Poilievre plans to speak with a number of American media outlets to promote Team Canada in the face of a heightened trade war. New Canadian...
Most imports of Canadian-made liquor and a handful of dairy products will be banned from the United States at the end of September, but dozens of other products are getting a tariff reprieve. President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed new executive orders ramping up retaliation after Canada imposed its latest set of counter tariffs on the United States. The five...
Short of organizing Hugo Chavez-style neighbourhood militias, Canadians are doing everything that could be reasonably asked of them to demonstrate their commitment to national sovereignty. They have turned up their noses at dirty Yankee liquor, sworn off Florida’s beaches, and, crucially, voted for the nationalist government of Mark Carney and signalled their support for him, in byelections and public opinion...
Canada has a competition problem — but it isn’t what you think. The challenge isn’t that too many large companies dominate their markets. It is that Canadian competition policy is moving toward treating market concentration as evidence of harm, even when concentration may be the result of firms competing successfully. That distinction matters because scale can create real economic benefits...
Does each side have a legitimate case to make? Watching American media coverage of the trade war with Canada, particularly of late, and particularly in television interviews, you’d get the impression that there might be justification for the attack-tariffs U.S. President Donald Trump has been bludgeoning Canada with for nearly two years. This is what happens when the media engages...
If Canada is indeed at war – and one could reasonably make that case based on our neighbour’s apparent efforts to turn this country into a vassal state – then all of its institutions should be operational, and on alert. Tens of billions of dollars worth of goods have been affected by tariffs levied by Washington, and now Ottawa. Nearly...
U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer blamed Canada for Washington's decision to escalate the trade war. President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed new executive orders ramping up retaliation after Canada imposed its latest set of counter tariffs on the United States. The five new orders, which take effect later this month, will completely bar imports of certain Canadian goods, including motorcycles...
Canada should take the hint. On the eve of his decision this summer not to permanently extend CUSMA by another decade, U.S. President Donald Trump repeated a point he had made back in January 2025: “We don’t need their oil and gas.”
What Canadian politician would vacation in the U.S right now, just as we are locked into an ugly trade war with our southern neighbour? Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, of course.
Donald Trump’s threat to ban Bombardier aircraft sales unless the Canadian company builds them in the U.S. is sparking resistance from politicians, including members within his own party. As Canada’s $27.6-billion counter-tariffs take effect Tuesday, a Truth Social post from Trump sent shock waves through Bombardier’s U.S. workforce — particularly in Wichita, Kan., where the Canadian plane maker has its...
Although the tariff trade war between the United States and Canada is creating the political tension among the voters who Republicans will need to retain the U.S. Congress in November, this country’s labour leaders are bracing for impacts that will outlast this fall’s American midterms and beyond President Donald Trump’s tenure in office, says Canadian Labour Congress president Bea Bruske...
