Canada election: Carney says Trump ‘respected sovereignty of our country’ during private call

Call was ‘cordial’ and lone the 'start of negotiations'

Carney characterized his telephone with Trump arsenic “cordial,” echoing the president’s much affirmative code successful comments earlier today.

He besides said the telephone was "very productive and precise constructive," but that it was lone the “start of negotiations" — specified days earlier the adjacent circular of threatened tariffs.

“We volition spot what the United States volition bash connected the 2nd of April…. It is inactive the lawsuit that determination are tariffs connected a fig of different Canadian goods," helium said.

Trump wants to alteration the U.S. economy, the Liberal person told press, and "because of that, helium volition alteration the Canadian economy.”

Canada is successful a ‘drastically antithetic world,’ Carney says

"Over the coming weeks, months, and years, we indispensable fundamentally reimagine our economy," Carney said. "We indispensable guarantee that Canada tin win successful a drastically antithetic world."

He besides repeated his precise fashionable connection from yesterday: "The aged narration we had with the United States based connected deepening integration of our economies and choky information and subject practice is over."

Liberal person pitches $5B commercialized infrastructure money

Carney repeated his earlier connection that helium had a "very constructive call" with Trump and that the 2 "agreed to statesman broad negotiations astir a caller economical and information narration betwixt our 2 sovereign countries instantly pursuing the election."

He said helium and Canada's premiers are connected the aforesaid leafage astir however to determination guardant with retaliatory measures.

Carney is making a run announcement connected ports. He's promising, if elected, to inject $5 cardinal into a money aimed astatine gathering infrastructure astatine ports, railroads, inland terminals, airports and highways.

The extremity is to diversify Canadian commercialized partners amid the commercialized warfare with the U.S. and amended practice betwixt ports, alternatively of them competing against each other.

He says helium would besides fortify information astatine ports to halt the travel of drugs including fentanyl and different opioids, arsenic good arsenic amerciable guns and stolen cars by improving screening, with caller scanners, artificial quality (AI) and much "boots connected the ground."

Carney is lasting against the backdrop of the Port of Montreal, a radical of workers and national furniture ministers lasting down him.

The Liberal person is expected to sermon his telephone with Trump earlier today, which some leaders spoke of positively.

Vance says Canada can't triumph a commercialized war

While Trump and Carney struck a acold much cordial code today, U.S. Vice-President JD Vance remained forceful portion visiting Greenland.

“There is nary mode Canada tin triumph a commercialized war,” helium said during a travel to the Pituffik Space Base.

“The Canadian enactment threatening retaliatory tariffs against the United States, arsenic President Trump often says, they conscionable don’t person the cards.

The authorities has promised retaliatory tariffs if the U.S. moves up with 25 per cent tariffs connected foreign-made vehicles.

Vance’s travel to Greenland has stirred concerns arsenic the U.S. threatens to annex the semi-autonomous Danish territory — a feeling galore Canadians tin sympathize with.

Good afternoon, Canada! I'm a elder writer successful Toronto, and I’ll beryllium curating this unrecorded leafage for the remainder of the day.

Carney is backmost connected the run way successful Montreal and has a quality league scheduled for 3:30 p.m. ET, wherever he’s expected to stock much details astir his telephone with Trump.

It looks similar we’re headed to a pivot constituent successful Canada-U.S. history: negotiations, aft the election, connected a caller economical and information partnership.

It’s evidently excessively aboriginal to foretell which mode it volition go. But we tin marque immoderate predictions astir U.S. goals, based connected caller nationalist statements and connected well-documented demands that span aggregate administrations.

The easiest telephone of all? Dairy. Trump brings it up constantly, and volition beryllium itching to get much marketplace entree for farmers successful Wisconsin, a plaything authorities helium carried twice.

The U.S. has different commercialized gripes, notably the integer services tax, which penalizes U.S. tech giants.

On security, a mates of U.S. demands are easy foreseen: much subject spending — and faster, particularly successful the Arctic. Expect ramped-up speech astir processing Canada’s captious minerals.

But here’s a imaginable chaotic card: ballistic rocket defence. Canada has traditionally refused to articulation the program.

Yet now, arsenic the U.S. looks to refurbish its programme to woody with a scope of caller technological threats, immoderate Americans observe a caller openness from Ottawa.

Will Canadian governmental parties beryllium keen to speech astir dairy entree and rocket defence, successful the midst of an election? Certainly not the Liberals and Conservatives.

These are arguable and perchance vote-losing issues for the bigger parties. While the Bloc Québécois and NDP mightiness propulsion for details, the bigger parties volition person each inducement to punt this contented until aft the election.

Here's 1 final, harmless prediction. It involves some economics and security, the 2 aspects of the eventual talks. The U.S. volition apt propulsion for caller measures to support Chinese products retired of proviso chains. This is their big, global, strategical objective.

Hope for an extremity to the chaos

Poilievre was asked astir Trump’s connection displacement aft the telephone with Carney.

Trump did not notation to Carney arsenic “governor,” arsenic helium repeatedly did for erstwhile premier curate Trudeau.

Poilievre said helium hopes determination is simply a alteration successful code coming retired of the White House.

“We privation to enactment an extremity to this crazy, tariff chaos,” helium said.

He said the Liberals person made Canada excessively babelike connected the U.S., and reiterated his committedness to unleash the country’s earthy resources.

Carney is promising “economic autonomy” arsenic portion of his effect to the caller Canada-U.S. relationship.

Mayors tin lone bash truthful much

The mayors’ acme successful Washington, D.C., has wrapped. It’s beauteous singular to spot truthful galore mayors of truthful galore cities successful North America unneurotic successful 1 room.

But it was not mislaid upon the reporters that determination is lone truthful overmuch that municipal leaders tin bash successful the look of this commercialized war. They emphasized to maine the value of sending a beardown connection and moving unneurotic to lobby national officials, but that their enactment shouldn’t person to beryllium focusing connected however to assistance radical who person mislaid their jobs oregon prevention their section economy, similar it is close now.

Over to you, feds.

A ‘very, precise good’ speech with Mark

U.S. President Donald Trump stopped successful beforehand of a microphone astatine the White House, wherever helium praised his “very, precise good” telephone telephone with the Canadian premier minister.

Trump referred to Mark Carney by his archetypal sanction portion chatting with reporters.

"I deliberation things volition enactment retired precise good betwixt Canada and the United States,” helium said.

“We person liberation day, arsenic you know, connected April 2 and, I'm not referring to Canada, but galore countries person taken vantage of us.”

Trump has antecedently said Canada was taking vantage of the U.S., claiming his state subsidizes Canada with hundreds of billions of dollars each year. That’s been disputed.

It’s different twist successful the relationship, though with the evergreen caveat that what Trump says and what helium does tin beryllium precise different.