Canada election: Trump says first call with Carney was ‘extremely productive’ amid ongoing trade war

Trump calls the premier curate of Canada the premier minister

Tone shift! U.S. President Donald Trump posted connected his societal media level Truth Social that he’s spoken with Prime Minister Mark Carney.

And Trump really called Carney premier minister, aft repeatedly calling erstwhile premier curate Justin Trudeau "governor" — portion of his annexation taunting.

Trump called it “an highly productive call.”

“We hold connected galore things, and volition beryllium gathering instantly aft Canada’s upcoming Election to enactment connected elements of politics, business, and each different factors, that volition extremity up being large for some the United States of America and Canada,” wrote Trump.

“Thank you for your attraction to this matter!”

It’s a singular station successful however mean and regular it is.

Blanchet dismissive of polling figures

In classical Blanchet fashion, the Bloc person shrugged disconnected a question from our CBC workfellow Raffy Boudjikanian astir the party’s dismal lasting successful the polls.

According to CBC’s Poll Tracker, the Bloc is apt to suffer seats.

“I would thin to archer everybody, halt watching the board. You’re missing a bully crippled connected the ice,” said Blanchet.

It’s not uncommon for a person to brushwood disconnected questions astir polling publicly. But down the scenes, it’s apt a antithetic story.

A tell-tale motion of predetermination play successful Quebec: a travel to a dairy farm.

Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet stopped contiguous successful Saint-Roch-de-l’Achigan, Que., wherever cows served arsenic his backdrop.

The person was touting his backstage member’s measure connected proviso absorption protections, which made it to the Senate past league earlier dying.

The measure would person prevented Canadian commercialized negotiators from giving up immoderate much concessions connected Canada's highly protected dairy, ovum and poultry sectors.

Producers successful proviso managed sectors person been vocal that they consciousness caller commercialized negotiations are deteriorating the decades-old system.

Critics reason Blanchet’s measure could undermine Canada's quality to negociate aboriginal deals.

GDP maturation deed a partition successful February aft January boost

Good morning. I'm a elder writer for CBC News based successful Toronto.

Canada's system was looking coagulated astatine the commencement of the year, but that maturation deed immoderate complications successful February, according to caller numbers from Statistics Canada.

In January, the GDP (growth home product) roseate 0.4 per cent, mostly owed to a roar successful lipid and gas. It was an uptick successful maturation compared to December.

In February, however, a slowdown successful retail commercialized weighed america down, and the economy's complaint of maturation remained virtually unchanged, Statistics Canada said today.

Economists expect to spot a wide antagonistic interaction from tariffs connected the GDP erstwhile information for March is available.

Poilievre promises beingness sentences truthful 'monsters rot successful jail'

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is going backmost to the good today, vowing to get pugnacious connected transgression if elected April 28.

The presumption has been a pillar of Poilievre’s authorities from agelong earlier Trump was re-elected successful the U.S.

The Conservative announcement contiguous comes arsenic the party, trailing the Liberals successful the polls, tries to link with voters connected issues extracurricular of Trump’s tariffs.

Poilievre is pledging to enforce beingness sentences for radical recovered blameworthy of 5 oregon much counts of quality trafficking, oregon of importing oregon exporting 10 oregon much amerciable firearms.

The aforesaid condemnation would use to “fentanyl trafficking connected a ample scale.” He made a akin committedness astir “fentanyl kingpins” connected Feb. 5.

In a run video, Poilievre said helium wants to “ensure these monsters rot successful jailhouse forever.”

He’ll marque the announcement during a halt successful Nanaimo, B.C.

Singh backmost successful Toronto to speech lodging costs — again

Hi, I’m a newsman covering the NDP campaign. The New Democrats returned to Toronto Friday for the 2nd clip this week — but it wasn't the lone portion of their run connected repeat.

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh held a quality league this greeting with respective tenants, including the aforesaid pistillate helium spoke to astatine a run halt connected Tuesday. Erin Filby says the rent successful her downtown Toronto flat gathering was jacked up aft it was purchased by Brookfield Asset Management.

Brookfield is the $1-trillion planetary concern steadfast that Mark Carney was the seat of until helium decided to tally for Liberal leader.

During their past halt successful Toronto 3 days ago, the NDP did not unveil immoderate caller policies to woody with the firm landlords they accidental bargain up properties successful Canada, lone to rise rents.

But today, the New Democrats said they would prohibition companies from buying affordable rental buildings.

The NDP said they would chopped disconnected ample backstage landlords from accessing fiscal enactment similar low-interest national loans and preferential taxation treatment. They besides said they would boost the rental extortion money truthful non-profits tin acquisition much affordable apartments erstwhile they spell up for sale.

Carney and Trump person crossed paths before

This morning’s telephone telephone is the archetypal clip Carney and Trump are speaking arsenic leaders — but they person crossed paths before.

Carney's clip astatine the Bank of England overlapped with Trump’s archetypal word successful office.

The erstwhile cardinal banker besides acted arsenic seat of the Financial Stability Board from 2011 to 2018, an planetary assemblage that monitors and makes recommendations astir the planetary fiscal system, putting Carney successful the aforesaid country arsenic Trump astatine G20 meetings.

There’s besides photos of Carney astatine the authorities banquet held successful Trump’s honour astatine Buckingham Palace successful London during the president’s 2019 visit.

A timeline of the Carney-Trump call

Good morning, I’m a shaper with our CBC News predetermination information cheque team. Here’s a look astatine what Mark Carney has said astir erstwhile oregon if helium would speech to Donald Trump.

Carney did not speech to Trump instantly aft being sworn successful arsenic premier minister.

Once the national predetermination run started, Carney said helium would speech to Trump astatine immoderate point, but lone if Trump respected Canada’s sovereignty.

After Trump announced 25 per cent car tariffs connected Wednesday, Carney said helium would talk to Trump “in the adjacent time oregon two.”

We’re present expecting that telephone to hap this morning.

Assets, accounts and trusts, ohio my!

Let's speech astir money. Like successful galore past elections, wealth and the system person go a focal point. And enactment leaders are facing scrutiny erstwhile it comes to their ain portfolios’ concern dealings, past oregon present.

Many readers person asked CBC for much clarity connected the antithetic fiscal presumption leaders person argued implicit — including investments, assets, taxation cuts, taxation havens and unsighted trusts.

Our workfellow Verity Stevenson explains present however the leaders’ idiosyncratic finances are being scrutinized connected the run trail.

Today’s Poll Tracker update

The Liberals are moving deeper into bulk territory, according to the CBC Poll Tracker, which is managed by Éric Grenier of The Writ.

Here’s much from Éric:

“The Liberals proceed to emergence successful the polls and widen their lead. The Conservatives person much enactment than they did successful the past predetermination but are nary person to forming authorities arsenic the NDP and Bloc ballot shifts to the Liberals, who are consolidating their presumption arsenic the dense favourite to triumph an predetermination if 1 were held today.”