Advisory committee member says talks with U.S. are progressing. Prime Minister Mark Carney said his negotiating team made "some progress" during trade talks in Washington this week, but there's "lots more to do" to land an overall agreement. Carney's comments on Thursday came as Canada-U.S. Trade minister Dominic LeBlanc and the country's chief trade negotiator, Janice Charette, briefed a special...
Prime Minister Mark Carney said Wednesday his Liberal government will soon introduce legislation on forced labour in supply chains after the Trump administration proposed a 10 per cent additional tariff on Canada and other countries following an investigation into the issue. "Canada has a very strong legislative regime against forced labour in supply chains," Carney told reporters in Ottawa. "We...
We recall last year when U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra said that annexation talk was over. “From my standpoint, from the President’s standpoint, 51st state’s not coming back,” he said. “It’s done.” Yeah, sure. This week Donald Trump posted “51st State” on Truth Social. It came with a link to an article about the Canadian economy dipping into a recession, the...
Dominic LeBlanc, Mark Carney’s point minister on Canada-U.S. relations, was no doubt feeling the pressure as he landed in Washington on Tuesday to kick-start trade talks with Donald Trump’s administration. But it’s less pressure than he was facing last year, according to some new polling from Abacus Data. Canadians’ anxiety about Trump’s trade war has declined sharply from 2025, Abacus...
PM said Canada would not react or respond to every post from the U.S. president. Prime Minister Mark Carney shrugged off U.S. president Donald Trump's latest jab about Canada being the 51st state as a post by an "exceptionally active user of social media." "It's only gone up in recent months," Carney said Tuesday of Trump's online posting. "And we're...
In a letter to his counterparts in the United States and Mexico, Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc says he wants to renew the countries’ trilateral trade deal for another 16 years and opt out of an annual review process. “This agreement is highly beneficial to each of our countries and to the integrated North American economy,” LeBlanc wrote in a...
Chinese import-side mirror data, which capture how China records imports from Canada, point to a larger Canadian-origin goods footprint — and a more complex bilateral trade relationship than headline export figures imply.
Canada has sent a letter to the United States and Mexico recommending that the three countries renew the continental trade pact. The letter from Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc is required as part of the mandatory review of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement on trade, known in Canada as CUSMA. LeBlanc is set to travel to Washington today to meet with U.S...
Nearly 3,000 Chinese-manufactured EVs landed in the country last month. More than 2,900 Chinese-made electric passenger vehicles arrived in Canada during the month of May. Data from Global Affairs Canada indicates that May was the first month of EV imports from China after Prime Minister Mark Carney agreed to let in tens of thousands of the vehicles under a reduced...
Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc is set to travel to Washington on Tuesday to meet with his American counterpart as official negotiations between Ottawa and the Trump administration on a critical continental trade pact lag behind talks with Mexico. LeBlanc's spokesperson Gabriel Brunet said the minister will be joined by Chief Trade Negotiator Janice Charette for a meeting with U.S...
Doug Ford is set to co-host a business reception alongside American billionaire Ross Perot Jr. next month in Washington, part of the Ontario Premier’s renewed efforts to push for stronger economic ties between Canada and the United States at a critical juncture in trade negotiations.
Former Canadian ambassador to the United States, Kirsten Hillman doesn’t think CUSMA is going anywhere, despite the fast-approaching deadline to review the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement and the rhetoric employed by Trump administration trade officials. “I personally do not believe that the agreement will go away, and (the U.S. trade representative) has said that,” Hillman told CTV Question Period host Vassy Kapelos...
U.S. President Donald Trump’s negotiating team is demanding that all North American-made autos contain at least 50 per cent U.S. content, firing the opening salvo in a battle over the future of the pact governing continental trade. American and Mexican negotiators hunkered down in Mexico City this week to start a review of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, and the U.S. announced...
Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said Canada wants to boost trade with China by 50 per cent in the next four years while protecting its national security interests, as she welcomed her Chinese counterpart to Ottawa. She made no mention on Friday of the fact a Canadian warship transited the Taiwan Strait days before Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s high-stakes...
Prime Minister Mark Carney told an audience of business professionals in New York City on Thursday that Canada's efforts to diversify its trade and wean itself off the U.S. market make it a better ally. Carney spoke to the Economic Club of New York, outlining Canada's economic strategy and the progress made so far. It's part of his government's efforts...
In just over a month, North American governments are expected to decide the future of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA). More likely, they will decide how to decide that future. It’s still not clear to anyone, probably U.S. trade negotiators included, how this first six-year review of CUSMA will play out.
Canada-U.S. trade minister Dominic LeBlanc heads to Washington next week to talk trade, ahead of the July 1 deadline for a review of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico free trade deal (CUSMA). Ahead of the trip, LeBlanc tells CTV News he had a one-hour video meeting Monday with United States Trade Representative, Jamieson Greer. The Canada-US. trade minister said they were also joined...
U.S. President Donald Trump's trade czar said there will be tariffs in place on Mexico and Canada even though the countries are part of a continental trade pact. United States Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said Tuesday that most nations around the world have "begrudgingly" accepted tariffs are part of the Trump administration's ongoing policies and have been willing to continue...
Unless you had to go fill your gas tank after the long weekend — like this loser, right here — you could almost be forgiven for forgetting the war in the Middle East is still ongoing, sort of. Especially as the White House seems to be much more focused on us and its other neighbours. The Third Persian Gulf War...
U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra says tariffs are here to stay, and Canada needs to accept it. Pete Hoekstra does not mince words. A close ally of U.S. President Donald Trump, the 72-year-old Republican politician has developed a reputation for speaking bluntly, especially when it comes to the Canada-U.S. relationship. When he welcomed Radio-Canada to the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa for...
Indian Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal will be in Canada from May 25 to 27 with the largest Indian trade and investment delegation to ever visit any country. The delegation includes "representatives from energy, infrastructure, technology, manufacturing, investment and innovation sectors," according to Prashant Srivastava, president of the Toronto-based Indo-Canada Chamber of Commerce (ICCC).
Remarks from U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra add to harshly critical statements from lobby groups representing Hollywood and tech companies. President Trump’s chief envoy in Ottawa accused Canadian authorities on Friday of imposing new trade barriers by sharply increasing how much the big, U.S.-based online streaming companies must contribute financially to Canadian television programming. The remarks from Pete Hoekstra, the U.S...
Windsor Mayor Drew Dilkens says he doesn’t want Canada to accept a bad trade deal just to open the Gordie Howe International Bridge. The new bridge is slated to open in “spring 2026,” according to bridge officials. U.S. President Donald Trump and high-ranking Canadian politicians have indicated trade renegotiations are what’s keeping the bridge closed. “We’ve fulfilled our end of...
The resurgence of protectionism internationally and trade tensions between Canada and the United States have brought the issue of borders in international trade back to the forefront. While at one time many envisioned a future in which national borders would cease to be a significant economic factor, the current situation very much suggests otherwise.
The United States has put countervailing duties on fresh mushrooms grown in Canada following a U.S. Department of Commerce investigation which the Canadian industry has called "deeply flawed." The change, posted in the federal register on Monday, will slap most fresh mushrooms with tariffs of 2.84 per cent. Two companies received separate duties: Champ's Fresh Farms Inc. was hit with...
As Canada enters free trade talks with U.S., these charts show Canada’s impact on booze trade. As we head into the Victoria Day long weekend, one of the busiest booze-buying weekends on the calendar, it's the second year where most Canadians are without access to American labels. When Canadian liquor stores pulled American products from shelves in early 2025, it...
U.S. pointing to agricultural tax exemptions as justification for countervailing duties. The U.S. is about to slap countervailing duties on fresh mushrooms grown in Canada, as Canadian growers warn of broader risks to the farming sector on both sides of the border. A U.S. Commerce Department fact sheet released this week and shared with CBC by the Canadian Mushroom Growers'...
The federal government is pushing to get Canadian companies on major Chinese e-commerce platforms as the two countries deepen their ties. International Trade Minister Maninder Sidhu told The Canadian Press in a recent interview that China's e-commerce titans Alibaba and JD.com want more Canadian businesses on their platforms. "I want to help enable that," he said. "There are some options...
Prime Minister Mark Carney set an ambitious target last year for the country to double its non-US exports over the next decade, a goal that built on his election campaign pledge to make Canada’s economy less reliant on its southern neighbor. Since then, his government has claimed early signs of success. Its recent budget update said trade diversification efforts “are...
Distilled Spirits Council of the United States says global exports decreased in 2025 partly because of Canada. Whether at the grocery store or the NSLC, Martha Reynolds pays attention to where products are from. "I'm doing my very best to not buy American," she said outside a Halifax location of the province's Crown-run alcohol retailer. For alcohol, this means bourbon...
Canadian wineries could be adding billions more to this country’s GDP in the years ahead if the barriers they are facing were to be addressed, new analysis finds. At a time where Prime Minister Mark Carney is pushing to strengthen domestic industries, there’s significant untapped growth potential in the wine sector, according to a new Deloitte report commissioned by Wine...
MPs and senators are set to drastically reduce interparliamentary exchanges with the U.S. Senate and Congress, despite multi-party efforts to save a crucial trade deal with the United States. Parliamentary funding for intergovernmental legislative exchanges has been flat for years, yet fees have been rising for participation in interparliamentary groups such as those linked to the Commonwealth and NATO.
A major Mexican trade mission to Canada launched Thursday, involving over 200 Mexican businesses, looking to expand commercial links during the two-day, two-city encounter that will include high-level talks on the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA). The mission begins in Toronto on Thursday before moving to Montreal. It is the largest that Mexico has ever sent to Canada, though it's a truncated...
Canada’s declining productivity and weak competitiveness are increasingly tied to structural barriers that limit competition in domestic markets. One of the most consequential – and overlooked – of these barriers lies in public procurement. Accounting for 13.4 per cent of GDP, or roughly $350 billion annually – government purchasing should exert strong downward pressure on costs and expand opportunities for...
Trump blamed the Reagan ad. Negotiations really fell apart over autos. Prime Minister Mark Carney left the White House in early October with Canada and the United States in reach of a trade deal. Inside the meeting, senior U.S. officials were enthusiastic about a possible agreement covering steel, aluminum, uranium and energy.
Prime Minister Mark Carney should spell out to Canadians what leverage the country has over the United States in coming trade negotiations, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre asserted on Sunday. That comes after Carney rejected characterizing energy and critical minerals as "leverage" in talks to renew the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement, also known as CUSMA. Poilievre said Carney should explain how he...
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis says Canada likely won’t gain much by waiting on the November midterms to ramp up trade negotiations with the U.S. administration, because it’s unlikely Congress will be able to put enough pressure on the president to make a difference. As the July 1 deadline to review the trilateral trade deal between Canada, the United States and...
Canada's international trade minister says the government is looking to sign three major trade deals before the end of the year -- with Mercosur, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and India. Speaking with The Canadian Press this week, International Trade Minister Maninder Sidhu said Ottawa has teams of negotiators in different parts of the world almost every week. He...
Prime Minister Mark Carney will head to Yerevan, Armenia, this weekend for a brief stop as a guest at a meeting of the European Political Community. The gathering will bring together leaders from the European Union and non‑EU countries, including the United Kingdom, Norway and Switzerland. It marks the first time a Canadian prime minister has been invited to the...
July 1, 2026, is an important date for the future of the Canada-U.S. Mexico Agreement (CUSMA), but there is considerable confusion as to exactly what is supposed to happen on that date. Some think it is the final deadline for negotiations to save the agreement from termination. Others think it is the starting date for a complete renegotiation of the...
Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada will not use energy or critical minerals as "leverage" in upcoming trade talks with U.S. President Donald Trump's administration. Carney said on Friday that Canada is not talking about halting any such trade with the U.S. and ruled out the notion entirely, adding Canadians honour their contracts and agreements. But the prime minister also...
Jamil Jivani returned to the U.S. capital this week to carry 'the Conservative party's Team Canada message.' Prime Minister Mark Carney dismissed Conservative MP Jamil Jivani's recent trade trip to Washington D.C., saying on Thursday that Jivani can go where he wants, but he won't learn anything Carney doesn't know already. "It has not been our experience that people have...
Prime Minister Mark Carney said it doesn’t hurt to have Conservatives travelling to the U.S. at a time when cross-border trade talks are on the rocks, but it doesn’t necessarily help either. Conservative MP Jamil Jivani, who has a personal friendship with U.S. Vice-President JD Vance, was on his second self-assigned mission to Washington again this week. His trip follows...