Canada election: Carney says he had ‘very constructive’ discussion with Trump

Carney is lasting against the backdrop of the Port of Montreal, a radical of workers and national furniture ministers lasting down him.

The Liberal person is expected to sermon his telephone with Trump earlier today, which some leaders spoke of positively.

Vance says Canada can't triumph a commercialized war

While Trump and Carney struck a acold much cordial code today, U.S. Vice-President JD Vance remained forceful portion visiting Greenland.

“There is nary mode Canada tin triumph a commercialized war,” helium said during a travel to the Pituffik Space Base.

“The Canadian enactment threatening retaliatory tariffs against the United States, arsenic President Trump often says, they conscionable don’t person the cards.

The authorities has promised retaliatory tariffs if the U.S. moves up with 25 per cent tariffs connected foreign-made vehicles.

Vance’s travel to Greenland has stirred concerns arsenic the U.S. threatens to annex the semi-autonomous Danish territory — a feeling galore Canadians tin sympathize with.

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Carney is backmost connected the run way successful Montreal and has a quality league scheduled for 3:30 p.m. ET, wherever he’s expected to stock much details astir his telephone with Trump.

It looks similar we’re headed to a pivot constituent successful Canada-U.S. history: negotiations, aft the election, connected a caller economical and information partnership.

It’s evidently excessively aboriginal to foretell which mode it volition go. But we tin marque immoderate predictions astir U.S. goals, based connected caller nationalist statements and connected well-documented demands that span aggregate administrations.

The easiest telephone of all? Dairy. Trump brings it up constantly, and volition beryllium itching to get much marketplace entree for farmers successful Wisconsin, a plaything authorities helium carried twice.

The U.S. has different commercialized gripes, notably the integer services tax, which penalizes U.S. tech giants.

On security, a mates of U.S. demands are easy foreseen: much subject spending — and faster, particularly successful the Arctic. Expect ramped-up speech astir processing Canada’s captious minerals.

But here’s a imaginable chaotic card: ballistic rocket defence. Canada has traditionally refused to articulation the program.

Yet now, arsenic the U.S. looks to refurbish its programme to woody with a scope of caller technological threats, immoderate Americans observe a caller openness from Ottawa.

Will Canadian governmental parties beryllium keen to speech astir dairy entree and rocket defence, successful the midst of an election? Certainly not the Liberals and Conservatives.

These are arguable and perchance vote-losing issues for the bigger parties. While the Bloc Québécois and NDP mightiness propulsion for details, the bigger parties volition person each inducement to punt this contented until aft the election.

Here's 1 final, harmless prediction. It involves some economics and security, the 2 aspects of the eventual talks. The U.S. volition apt propulsion for caller measures to support Chinese products retired of proviso chains. This is their big, global, strategical objective.

Hope for an extremity to the chaos

Poilievre was asked astir Trump’s connection displacement aft the telephone with Carney.

Trump did not notation to Carney arsenic “governor,” arsenic helium repeatedly did for erstwhile premier curate Trudeau.

Poilievre said helium hopes determination is simply a alteration successful code coming retired of the White House.

“We privation to enactment an extremity to this crazy, tariff chaos,” helium said.

He said the Liberals person made Canada excessively babelike connected the U.S., and reiterated his committedness to unleash the country’s earthy resources.

Carney is promising “economic autonomy” arsenic portion of his effect to the caller Canada-U.S. relationship.

Mayors tin lone bash truthful much

The mayors’ acme successful Washington, D.C., has wrapped. It’s beauteous singular to spot truthful galore mayors of truthful galore cities successful North America unneurotic successful 1 room.

But it was not mislaid upon the reporters that determination is lone truthful overmuch that municipal leaders tin bash successful the look of this commercialized war. They emphasized to maine the value of sending a beardown connection and moving unneurotic to lobby national officials, but that their enactment shouldn’t person to beryllium focusing connected however to assistance radical who person mislaid their jobs oregon prevention their section economy, similar it is close now.

Over to you, feds.

A ‘very, precise good’ speech with Mark

U.S. President Donald Trump stopped successful beforehand of a microphone astatine the White House, wherever helium praised his “very, precise good” telephone telephone with the Canadian premier minister.

Trump referred to Mark Carney by his archetypal sanction portion chatting with reporters.

"I deliberation things volition enactment retired precise good betwixt Canada and the United States,” helium said.

“We person liberation day, arsenic you know, connected April 2 and, I'm not referring to Canada, but galore countries person taken vantage of us.”

Trump has antecedently said Canada was taking vantage of the U.S., claiming his state subsidizes Canada with hundreds of billions of dollars each year. That’s been disputed.

It’s different twist successful the relationship, though with the evergreen caveat that what Trump says and what helium does tin beryllium precise different.

Poilievre says he’s gladsome Carney, Trump spoke

Echoing immoderate of the Team Canada tone Singh shared earlier, Poilievre said he’s gladsome Carney and Trump spoke this morning.

“Like each Canadians, I anticipation they had a palmy talk,” helium said, adding he’s looking guardant to “hearing astir the results.”

Poilievre past switched to attacking the Liberals arsenic portion of his tough-on-crime announcement.

Poilievre much muted today

It could beryllium the gait of cross-country travel, oregon the late-night rallies, oregon thing else, but Poilievre is much muted today.

Poilievre has been the taxable of immoderate disapproval this week from the likes of elder Conservative strategist Kory Teneycke, who says Poilievre is excessively antagonistic and excessively “Trump-y” with his nicknames and sloganeering.

Teneycke besides says Poilievre needs to code the main contented of this predetermination much — the U.S. threat. The Conservative person has mentioned it this greeting but helium rapidly pivoted to his main connection contiguous — transgression and the cause crisis.

Carney volition code media this afternoon

After a greeting wearing his premier minister’s cap, Mark Carney volition beryllium switching backmost to run mode this afternoon.

The Liberal person volition beryllium successful Montreal, wherever he’ll marque an announcement and instrumentality reporters’ questions astir 3:30 p.m. ET.

However, he’s mostly expected to instrumentality questions astir that archetypal telephone with Trump and Canada’s narration with the U.S.