On Thursday, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney stated that the “old relationship” with the United States “is over” and promised to renegotiate a trade agreement.
Carney, 60, who won the Liberal leadership this month with 86% of the vote after former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau resigned, was speaking in Ottawa after meeting with the country’s provincial premiers when he mentioned President Donald Trump’s new tariffs.
“The old relationship we had with the United States, based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperations, is over,” he stated to the media. “The time will come for a broad renegotiation of our security and trade relationship.”
Carney’s remarks did not address the future of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), which was renegotiated during Trump’s first term in office.
Carney stated that what the United States will do next “is unclear.”
“It is clear that we, as Canadians, have agency. We possess power. “We are masters of our own home,” he stated. “We are in control of our destiny. We can provide for ourselves far more than any foreign government, including the United States, can ever take away.”
Trump’s tariffs and comments about making Canada the 51st state have alarmed Canadian leaders and outraged many Canadians.
On Wednesday, Trump announced a 25% tariff on foreign-made car imports in an effort to boost the US auto industry. He suspended tariffs on goods covered by the USMCA.
