Carney heading back to Ottawa on eve of next U.S. tariff announcement

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Liberal Leader Mark Carney is erstwhile again pausing his run successful the national predetermination to caput backmost to Ottawa up of U.S. President Donald Trump's expected Wednesday announcement of wide tariffs.

Liberal person disrupts run for 2nd clip to woody with Trump tariff threats

Verity Stevenson · CBC News

· Posted: Apr 01, 2025 6:59 PM EDT | Last Updated: 3 minutes ago

A antheral with abbreviated grey hair, and wearing a bluish suit, waves arsenic helium walks into a crowded mill warehouse.

Carney was successful Winnipeg each time Tuesday. He started disconnected the time taking questions from journalists connected campaigner Paul Chiang's determination to resign arsenic good arsenic connected the expected tariffs.

He aboriginal visited a edifice and met with Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew. Carney besides had a telephone telephone with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, with whom helium discussed expanding commercialized betwixt Canada and Mexico. A connection from Carney's bureau said the telephone was "productive."

This is the 2nd clip Carney has disrupted his run docket successful bid to respond to Trump's tariff threats.

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With hours to spell until U.S. President Donald Trump's 'Liberation Day,' experts are weighing successful connected the imaginable economical interaction of a caller slew of taxes connected Canadian imports into the U.S. Power & Politics hears from the main economist astatine the Conference Board of Canada, Pedro Antunes, astir wherefore Canada mightiness beryllium 'pressured' into negotiating the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement.

Last week, Trump made an unexpected announcement that helium would beryllium moving up with car assemblage tariffs connected April 2, which the president has dubbed "Liberation Day."

Even lesser tariffs connected the Canadian car manufacturing manufacture could person devastating effects connected jobs, experts say.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Verity is simply a newsman for CBC successful Montreal. She antecedently worked for the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Telegraph-Journal and the Sherbrooke Record. She is primitively from the Eastern Townships.

With files from Raffy Boudjikanian

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