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

We’re winding down this unrecorded leafage for the day. Thanks for sticking with us. Here’s a recap of the day’s news, and immoderate much stories to work from our colleagues:

• Prime Minister Mark Carney and U.S. President Donald Trump held their first-ever telephone today, and some said it went well.
• Federal enactment leaders Poilievre, Singh and Blanchet said they were gladsome for the code shift, but wanted much details.
• Poilievre, aft announcing argumentation pledges to people drugs and crime, said Trump favours the Liberals to triumph the election.
• Singh spoke astir lodging successful Toronto, portion Blanchet talked proviso absorption protections astatine a Quebec dairy farm.
• U.S. Vice-President JD Vance told reporters portion successful Greenland that there’s “no way” Canada tin triumph a commercialized warfare with the U.S.

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A renegotiation of CUSMA 'necessary', said Carney

Carney has said aggregate times helium wants a "comprehensive discussion" with the U.S. connected commercialized and security.

But contiguous helium was much specific, saying it's "Canada's preference" to person a renegotiation of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement connected trade.

"According to us, it's indispensable to person a renegotiation, a caller agreement, a caller concern with the United States due to the fact that determination are excessively galore changes, excessively galore tariffs, excessively galore threats, excessively overmuch uncertainty present successful our relationship," helium said successful French.

The statement is up for renewal successful 2026, but could beryllium redrawn earlier that. Trump has ordered a reappraisal of it for the U.S.

Trump unfastened to commercialized deals, says helium 'always loved Canada'

Moments agone aboard Air Force One, Trump told reporters he's "always loved Canada."

The president repeated that the speech with Carney had been "very good."

"They've got an predetermination going on, truthful we're going to conscionable aft the election," Trump said.

He past said helium would soon beryllium introducing pharmaceutical tariffs connected U.S. trading partners, which could see Canada.

Yesterday Carney identified 5 "strategic areas" Trump was targeting to repatriate accumulation to the U.S. They see pharmaceuticals, lumber, automobiles, alloy and aluminum and semiconductors.

A writer asked whether Trump would beryllium consenting to chopped deals with different countries, arsenic the United Kingdom has indicated it wanted to do.

"I'm surely unfastened to that if we tin bash thing wherever we tin get thing for it," the president said, adding that deals could "probably" lone beryllium agreed upon aft tariffs were announced.

Supply management, Canadian civilization 'off the table' successful aboriginal CUSMA talks

Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet said earlier contiguous helium was acrophobic by Carney's connection astir determination being a "comprehensive discussion" to travel with Trump.

He took that to mean the Liberal person mightiness beryllium unfastened to conceding to U.S. unit connected proviso absorption issues, which could impact Quebec dairy and ovum markets, arsenic good arsenic connected the civilization and amusement sector.

Canada presently has measures successful the Canada-United-States-Mexico Agreement to support Canadian entertainment.

Carney said doubly astatine his quality league that proviso absorption was "off the table" for him, should helium beryllium elected premier minister. He added that civilization and protections to the French connection were besides non-negotiable.

"I volition enactment non-stop to triumph the enactment of Canadians and Quebecers this election," helium said.

Blanchet had besides called it presumptuous of Carney to acceptable up a treatment with Trump for aft the Canadian election.

Carney said his extremity of the telephone was to hold to wider talks connected system and information with whomever the premier curate whitethorn beryllium — but that helium believed it would beryllium amended if it were him.

Trump didn't backmost down connected auto, alloy and aluminum tariffs

While Carney said his extremity was to get Trump to hold to further talks, helium said the president didn't bespeak "pulling backmost connected the tariffs connected autos, alloy oregon aluminum."

Carney said that "underscores the value of much intensive discussions” betwixt Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly, International Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc and their American counterparts.

On that past word, helium astatine archetypal could lone deliberation of the French word: contreparties.

Carney chuckled. "See? It's hard to construe adjacent successful English for me.”

The NDP yet gets its wings

David Thurton travelling with the NDP here. We are astir to alert retired of Toronto to Ottawa.

This is the archetypal clip Singh’s run is going airborne. That’s noteworthy due to the fact that the archetypal week of the run was virtually and figuratively grounded.

The NDP began importantly down successful the polls, and opted to walk each of its archetypal week connected a bus. At 1 point, we travelled betwixt Montreal and Toronto — a six-hour drive.

The run spent much clip connected the roadworthy getting to its adjacent lawsuit than campaigning. In specified a abbreviated predetermination contention similar this, each infinitesimal matters.

The run docket picked up steam connected Wednesday, portion connected a Hamilton swing. But we ne'er visited steelworkers oregon labour leaders. Instead, we visited a seniors’ centre doubly and a pizza joint.

Thursday, the time aft Donald Trump’s auto-tariff announcement, the run squad seemed to course-correct. It made a last-minute determination to caput to Windsor, the automotive superior of Canada.

That determination reaped rewards for the party. Newscasts and websites featured images of Singh with his sleeves rolled up, gathering national leaders and autoworkers.

There is nary uncertainty the NDP has missed opportunities to seizure voters' attraction successful an predetermination wherever overmuch of the absorption seemed to beryllium connected the Conservatives and the Liberals — nor that they anticipation things tin lone spell up from here.

Trump respected Canadian sovereignty today: Carney

My workfellow Ashley Burke asked Carney whether helium believes determination was a strategy down Trump's seemingly much respectful code toward Canada aft their telephone telephone today.

"There's ever a strategy successful a negotiation," Carney said, adding that he's been wide astir Canadian priorities to physique retired trading options.

Trump respected Canadian sovereignty today, "both successful his nationalist and backstage comments,” Carney said.

"Perhaps determination was a antithetic content earlier astir however beardown Canada truly is," helium said successful English. He didn't repetition that successful French, stopping abbreviated astatine his erstwhile statement.

He laughed and said, "I'm tempted to adhd something, but I'll halt there."

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."