Canada election: Trump says ‘things will work out very well’ with Canada-U.S. relations after Carney call

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.

Poilievre speaking soon connected Vancouver Island

Good greeting from beauteous Nanaimo, B.C., wherever Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is making a tough-on-crime announcement, promising beingness sentences for much crimes. The opioid and toxic cause situation is simply a peculiar interest present connected Vancouver Island and Poilievre volition deed connected that contiguous successful his remarks.

Poilievre is present astatine a sawmill for the announcement. Unlike the different run stops astatine concern sites this week, determination aren’t immoderate workers connected manus contiguous to spot Poilievre, astatine slightest not yet.

B.C.’s lumber assemblage is peculiarly commercialized delicate and Trump’s tariff threats are a interest for galore successful this province.

We spoke to a fig of voters present successful Nanaimo — a spot that traditionally swings from NDP to Conservative — who accidental they are reasoning of going for the Liberals this clip astir successful the look of Trump worries.

Carney says telephone ‘very constructive’

We saw Trump’s instrumentality connected his telephone with Carney. Now we person the Canadian broadside via an authoritative readout.

The premier curate called it “a precise constructive speech astir the narration betwixt our 2 countries,” echoing Trump’s review.

Carney told the president helium volition determination up with retaliatory tariffs if the U.S. imposes car tariffs adjacent week, says the readout.

It goes connected to accidental that the 2 leaders agreed to statesman “comprehensive negotiations astir a caller economical and information narration instantly pursuing the election.”

“The premier curate told the president that helium would beryllium moving hard for the adjacent period to gain the close to correspond Canada successful those discussions,” the readout said.

Yesterday Carney said the “old relationship" with the U.S. is implicit — remarks that person garnered planetary coverage.

The readout besides said International Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc and U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick volition “intensify talks to code contiguous concerns.”

North American mayors propulsion for extremity to commercialized war

Hi, I’m a newsman covering the mayors’ acme successful Washington, D.C.

Mayors from much than a mates twelve cities successful the U.S., Canada and Mexico are here.

Despite the information negotiations tin truly lone officially hap astatine the national level, the mayors are trying to thrust location the constituent they’re astatine the forefront of this tariff warfare due to the fact that it’s the radical successful their communities who volition consciousness it first. They spot it first-hand.

From what I’ve been proceeding from my conversations, each assemblage volition beryllium affected successful antithetic ways.

Despite the worry, they’re sharing laughs, undoubtedly brought person by this unprecedented infinitesimal and the fearfulness of the repercussions of the tariffs.

Why the alteration successful Trump’s tone?

For starters, Trump appears alert that he’s go a origin successful the Canadian election, and that helium whitethorn person contributed to the Liberal Party’s bonzer rebound. He, and radical adjacent to him, person made statements showing immoderate consciousness of those dynamics.

Another reason? Carney is not Trudeau. Trump spoke with unsocial disdain for the erstwhile PM, thing his erstwhile adjutant John Bolton said Trump besides did successful private.

Carney besides amazed immoderate Americans with his comments yesterday astir the rupture successful Canada-U.S. relations, getting tons of attraction successful Washington.

Washington-based Canada-U.S. commercialized advisor Eric Miller said it has begun to dawn connected radical present that determination could beryllium semipermanent harm to a adjacent relationship, 1 that benefits the U.S.

“They [realize the] request to mean their rhetoric and support the narration going successful a historically affirmative direction,” Miller said.

And finally, Americans don’t privation a combat with Canada. Poll aft canvass shows that tariffs connected Canada are unpopular, arsenic is the 51st-state talk.

Consumer sentiment is plunging and ostentation fears are astatine a decades-long high, truthful Trump has immoderate incentives to spot things up.

“Of course, it’s 1 statement, 1 call,” Miller added. “[Trump] changes conscionable similar the weather.”

Let’s not get excessively excited

I’m a Washington-based analogous for CBC News who has covered American authorities and Canada-U.S. issues since 2013.

First, a caveat: Let’s not popular the champagne corks conscionable yet successful celebrating a instrumentality to normalcy, shall we? After all, Trump besides celebrated a “very bully call” with Trudeau past month, and a “very productive meeting” astatine Mar-a-Lago — then, days later, helium began mocking Trudeau mercilessly, successful a historically unprecedented mode successful Canada-U.S. relations.

So the concern is fluid. Tariffs are inactive on. And the U.S. president is simply a famously transactional fig whose governmental relationships unrecorded time by day.

With that caveat aside, this connection evidently attempts to chill down the somesthesia with Canada — which could beryllium bully for Canada, if it yields substantive results.