Carney hits back at Trump's auto tariffs, warns U.S. trade action will 'rupture the global economy'

John Paul Tasker · CBC News

· Posted: Apr 03, 2025 12:03 PM EDT | Last Updated: 6 minutes ago

Liberal Leader Mark Carney said Thursday U.S. President Donald Trump's determination to levy tariffs connected virtually each state volition "rupture the planetary economy," torpedo economic growth and punctual devastating consequences for workers and businesses successful this state and astir the world.

Carney said Trump's tariffs against Canadian goods are "unjustified, unwarranted and misguided," and the state indispensable deed back.

The Liberal person said the authorities volition levy a tariff connected U.S.-made vehicles that are not compliant with the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement, to lucifer what the Americans did to the Canadian car manufacture Wednesday.

Carney said the U.S. commercialized warfare is already having an interaction — Stellantis volition idle its monolithic Windsor, Ont., car assembly works due to the fact that of Trump's tariffs. Ottawa "will bash everything successful our power" to support workers, including with fiscal assistance, helium said.

Carney said Trump is dismantling the satellite trading strategy and Canada indispensable marque a hard pivot to physique up its ain system and prosecute amended relations with "reliable" trading partners. 

"We indispensable bash bonzer things for ourselves, we indispensable bash things antecedently thought intolerable astatine speeds we haven't seen successful generations," Carney said, promising to turbocharge economical improvement with an ambitious gathering program.

"We are surviving successful a caller satellite now. It volition beryllium hard connected Canadians but I person nary uncertainty we volition emergence to the challenge," helium said, explaining that the state has rallied successful the past successful the look of seemingly insurmountable obstacles, and tin bash it again.