Former U.S. ambassador to the UN says tariff impact will be 'enormous,' slams 'reckless' Signal group chat

Sarah Ramsaran · CBC News

· Posted: Mar 30, 2025 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 7 minutes ago

Former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice says President Donald Trump's tariffs volition pb to large economical consequences for some American and Canadian consumers.

In an interrogation airing Sunday connected CBC's Rosemary Barton Live, Rice described the interaction tariffs volition person connected some economies.

"The consequences volition beryllium tremendous for the American user who volition wage a large woody much for cars and galore different things, evidently besides for Canadian consumers and [the] economies of some countries," said Rice, who served successful the Obama administration. 

"This is truly a self-defeating and ill-advised economical policy. But it besides has nary wide rationale oregon objective."

Speaking astatine the Oval Office connected Wednesday, Trump signed an enforcement bid to bring successful a caller 25 per cent tariff connected imported rider vehicles and airy trucks.

On Thursday, Liberal Leader Mark Carney responded by saying the epoch of adjacent ties with the U.S. had ended.

"The aged narration we had with the United States, based connected deepening integration of our economies and choky information and subject co-operation, is over," Carney said during a quality conference.  

"I deliberation that's conscionable a connection of world and the obvious," Rice said, reacting to Carney's comments. 

"You know, we are friends. We are longtime allies. We stock a peaceful border. We stock values, we stock interests and yet we're being pitted against 1 different for reasons that nary of america recognize and cipher wants."

Rice besides served arsenic erstwhile U.S. president Barack Obama's nationalist information advisor from 2013 to 2017. Top Trump officials are present dealing with the fallout of mistakenly including a writer successful a Signal radical chat utilized to sermon U.S. subject enactment against the Houthis successful Yemen. 

Rice, referring to the information breach, said the administration's attack to nationalist information is "reckless and it's negligent."

"I mean the full happening is mind-boggling and highly, highly disturbing to Americans, but besides to radical who spot and trust connected america and person trusted and relied connected america for decades," she said. 

When asked whether Canada and different allies should proceed to stock quality with the U.S., Rice said the intelligence-sharing narration has been mutually beneficial for decades, and it's successful some the U.S. and Canada's interest to support it.

"But it is not unreasonable for some sides, each sides, to expect and request that the accusation we stock is kept successful a unafraid way," she said.