Prime Minister
Mark Carney admitted a broader trade agreement with U.S. President
Donald Trump is no longer within reach and gave his strongest signal yet that talks to lift 25-per-cent auto tariffs will be punted to next year's review of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico trade agreement.
The prime minister, speaking before a nine-day trip to Asia where he will meet Trump, said he is working to get a better deal for autoworkers.
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In French, Carney said the Americans are only interested in doing sectoral agreements with all countries, not just Canada, and said the premiers and he are now looking toward the "renegotiation" of the CUSMA trade deal, before correcting himself to call it a review.
In English, he pointed out the upcoming "review of our overall agreement, the CUSMA agreement with the U.S. and Mexico, that's coming up in a few months time, and so broader aspects will be brought there."
Then the prime minister issued a veiled threat of his own to the U.S., saying that if Canada cannot get fair access to the U.S. market for its products, Ottawa will respond and "change the terms" of its commercial relationship with the U.S. "but we're not there yet." (??? Elbows sometimes???)
