Canada election: Carney says Trump call ‘constructive’ as leaders agree to renewed trade negotiations

North American mayors propulsion for extremity to commercialized war

Hi, I’m a newsman covering the mayors’ acme successful Washington, D.C.

Mayors from much than a mates twelve cities successful the U.S., Canada and Mexico are here.

Despite the information negotiations tin truly lone officially hap astatine the national level, the mayors are trying to thrust location the constituent they’re astatine the forefront of this tariff warfare due to the fact that it’s the radical successful their communities who volition consciousness it first. They spot it first-hand.

From what I’ve been proceeding from my conversations, each assemblage volition beryllium affected successful antithetic ways.

Despite the worry, they’re sharing laughs, undoubtedly brought person by this unprecedented infinitesimal and the fearfulness of the repercussions of the tariffs.

Why the alteration successful Trump’s tone?

For starters, Trump appears alert that he’s go a origin successful the Canadian election, and that helium whitethorn person contributed to the Liberal Party’s bonzer rebound. He, and radical adjacent to him, person made statements showing immoderate consciousness of those dynamics.

Another reason? Carney is not Trudeau. Trump spoke with unsocial disdain for the erstwhile PM, thing his erstwhile adjutant John Bolton said Trump besides did successful private.

Carney besides amazed immoderate Americans with his comments yesterday astir the rupture successful Canada-U.S. relations, getting tons of attraction successful Washington.

Washington-based Canada-U.S. commercialized advisor Eric Miller said it has begun to dawn connected radical present that determination could beryllium semipermanent harm to a adjacent relationship, 1 that benefits the U.S.

“They [realize the] request to mean their rhetoric and support the narration going successful a historically affirmative direction,” Miller said.

And finally, Americans don’t privation a combat with Canada. Poll aft canvass shows that tariffs connected Canada are unpopular, arsenic is the 51st-state talk.

Consumer sentiment is plunging and ostentation fears are astatine a decades-long high, truthful Trump has immoderate incentives to spot things up.

“Of course, it’s 1 statement, 1 call,” Miller added. “[Trump] changes conscionable similar the weather.”

Let’s not get excessively excited

I’m a Washington-based analogous for CBC News who has covered American authorities and Canada-U.S. issues since 2013.

First, a caveat: Let’s not popular the champagne corks conscionable yet successful celebrating a instrumentality to normalcy, shall we? After all, Trump besides celebrated a “very bully call” with Trudeau past month, and a “very productive meeting” astatine Mar-a-Lago — then, days later, helium began mocking Trudeau mercilessly, successful a historically unprecedented mode successful Canada-U.S. relations.

So the concern is fluid. Tariffs are inactive on. And the U.S. president is simply a famously transactional fig whose governmental relationships unrecorded time by day.

With that caveat aside, this connection evidently attempts to chill down the somesthesia with Canada — which could beryllium bully for Canada, if it yields substantive results.

Singh hopes Carney-Trump telephone went well

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says helium volition knock Carney connected home issues, but he’s portion of “Team Canada.”

To that end, Singh said helium hoped the telephone betwixt Trump and Carney would spell well.

The NDP person said helium hoped Carney would accent that Canada volition ne'er beryllium the 51st state.

(Singh spoke to reporters earlier Carney and Trump hopped connected the horn, but determination were issues feeding the portion backmost truthful it’s lone conscionable present disposable for america to watch. Tech issues, sigh.)

Bloc person weighs successful connected Carney-Trump call

In a societal media station successful French, Blanchet said helium welcomes Trump's summation of the telephone arsenic productive, but said helium wants much details.

"I would similar to cognize what was said astir proviso management, softwood lumber, culture, and aluminum, cardinal sectors of Quebec's economy," Blanchet wrote.

He besides pondered whether Trump volition "respect the Canadian predetermination without further intrusion" and if the sweeping tariffs acceptable to footwear successful adjacent week volition beryllium postponed.

Trump seems to foretell Carney volition triumph the election

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Another striking happening astir Trump’s station aft today’s call: helium seems to beryllium taking for granted that Carney volition inactive beryllium premier curate aft the April 28 election.

We “will beryllium gathering instantly aft Canada’s upcoming Election,” the president posted.

Last week, portion taking recognition for the party’s rising electoral fortunes, Trump said it mightiness beryllium easier to woody with a Liberal.

“Just a small portion ago, earlier I got progressive and wholly changed the predetermination — which I don’t attraction astir … the Conservative was leading,” helium said past Friday.

“I don’t attraction who wins up there. I, frankly, astir apt would bash amended with the Liberal than with the Conservative, if you privation to cognize the truth.”

The Conservatives interpreted that, and immoderate akin comments Trump made earlier, arsenic an endorsement of Carney.

Trump hasn’t truly endorsed Carney explicitly. Today is the archetypal clip he’s utilized Carney’s sanction publically since Carney became premier minister. But the Conservatives whitethorn spot this arsenic grounds to bolster their message.

Trump calls the premier curate of Canada the premier minister

Tone shift! U.S. President Donald Trump posted connected his societal media level Truth Social that he’s spoken with Prime Minister Mark Carney.

And Trump really called Carney premier minister, aft repeatedly calling erstwhile premier curate Justin Trudeau "governor" — portion of his annexation taunting.

Trump called it “an highly productive call.”

“We hold connected galore things, and volition beryllium gathering instantly aft Canada’s upcoming Election to enactment connected elements of politics, business, and each different factors, that volition extremity up being large for some the United States of America and Canada,” wrote Trump.

“Thank you for your attraction to this matter!”

It’s a singular station successful however mean and regular it is.

Blanchet dismissive of polling figures

In classical Blanchet fashion, the Bloc person shrugged disconnected a question from our CBC workfellow Raffy Boudjikanian astir the party’s dismal lasting successful the polls.

According to CBC’s Poll Tracker, the Bloc is apt to suffer seats.

“I would thin to archer everybody, halt watching the board. You’re missing a bully crippled connected the ice,” said Blanchet.

It’s not uncommon for a person to brushwood disconnected questions astir polling publicly. But down the scenes, it’s apt a antithetic story.

A tell-tale motion of predetermination play successful Quebec: a travel to a dairy farm.

Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet stopped contiguous successful Saint-Roch-de-l’Achigan, Que., wherever cows served arsenic his backdrop.

The person was touting his backstage member’s measure connected proviso absorption protections, which made it to the Senate past league earlier dying.

The measure would person prevented Canadian commercialized negotiators from giving up immoderate much concessions connected Canada's highly protected dairy, ovum and poultry sectors.

Producers successful proviso managed sectors person been vocal that they consciousness caller commercialized negotiations are deteriorating the decades-old system.

Critics reason Blanchet’s measure could undermine Canada's quality to negociate aboriginal deals.

GDP maturation deed a partition successful February aft January boost

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Canada's system was looking coagulated astatine the commencement of the year, but that maturation deed immoderate complications successful February, according to caller numbers from Statistics Canada.

In January, the GDP (growth home product) roseate 0.4 per cent, mostly owed to a roar successful lipid and gas. It was an uptick successful maturation compared to December.

In February, however, a slowdown successful retail commercialized weighed america down, and the economy's complaint of maturation remained virtually unchanged, Statistics Canada said today.

Economists expect to spot a wide antagonistic interaction from tariffs connected the GDP erstwhile information for March is available.