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Carney says US must get serious before Canada resumes trade talks
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Carney says US must get serious before Canada resumes trade talks

From CNA · () English

Translated from English and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Prime Minister Mark Carney said the United States must adopt a more serious approach before Canada will resume negotiations on a possible trade deal.
  • Canada suspended talks on Aug. 21 after rejecting what it called unacceptable last-minute US demands, while President Donald Trump continued criticizing Canada publicly.
  • Carney said Ottawa remained open to a mutually beneficial agreement but would not accept terms that threatened core Canadian industries, particularly the integrated auto sector.

Canada is not ready to return to the negotiating table with the United States while Washington continues what Prime Minister Mark Carney called theatrical and hostile behavior.

“Stop doing memes, stop throwing shade, stop trying to be tough and start being serious about having those discussions,” Carney told reporters on Tuesday. He described recent US actions as “not constructive.”

Stop doing memes, stop throwing shade, stop trying to be tough and start being serious about having those discussions.

— Mark CarneyThe Canadian prime minister said the United States needed to change its approach before talks could resume.

Canada walked away from negotiations on Aug. 21 over an agreement intended to avoid additional US tariffs. Ottawa said the United States had made unacceptable demands at the last minute. Since then, President Donald Trump has suggested renaming Lake Ontario as Lake America, called Canada’s leaders “the worst” he has to deal with and repeated claims that Canada is taking advantage of the United States.

Trump also posted an AI-generated image showing Canadian geese styled with his distinctive hairstyle marching beneath a US flag. Carney said a mutually beneficial trade agreement remained possible, provided it respected Canadian sovereignty.

The attitude of the United States... has been one that the core Canadian industries either would be subsidiaries, effectively, of the United States industries, or (Washington) would put in place terms where those industries would be gradually wound down in Canada and wiped out.

— Mark CarneyCarney explained why Canada rejected the proposed trade terms, focusing on the auto sector and other core industries.

US officials have disputed part of Canada’s account of why the talks collapsed, saying an acceptable deal had been available. Carney said Ottawa had never considered the proposed terms adequate, particularly for the highly integrated auto industry.

“The attitude of the United States... has been one that the core Canadian industries either would be subsidiaries, effectively, of the United States industries, or (Washington) would put in place terms where those industries would be gradually wound down in Canada and wiped out,” he said. “Of course, we're not going to accept those terms.”

Of course, we're not going to accept those terms.

— Mark CarneyCarney rejected conditions he said could weaken or eliminate core industries in Canada.
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Originally published by CNA in English. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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