Trade talks with Trump ‘not yet revived’ since anti-tariff ad apology: Carney

Catharine Tunney · CBC News

· Posted: Nov 05, 2025 10:27 AM EST | Last Updated: November 5

Prime Minister Mark Carney gave nary denotation commercialized talks with the United States volition resume immoderate clip soon, contempt apologizing to U.S. President Donald Trump who abruptly ended negotiations implicit an advertisement campaign.

Asked Wednesday what the authorities of his conversations with Trump are and whether negotiations are resurrected, Carney said, "We'll see."

“The talks are not yet revived,” said the premier curate successful a little effect during a quality league astir his government’s precocious tabled budget.   

Carney said helium past spoke to Trump past week erstwhile the 2 attended the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit, wherever helium apologized to the president for the TV spots.

Trump chopped disconnected commercialized talks connected Oct. 23 and promised adjacent much punitive tariffs connected Canadian goods, blaming an Ontario government-backed run that featured clips of erstwhile U.S. president Ronald Reagan speaking negatively astir tariffs.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford yet pulled the advertisement but the commercialized talks inactive look dead. Canada has been keen to scope a woody to driblet sectorial tariffs, particularly connected alloy and aluminum. 

U.S. President Donald Trump looks toward Prime Minister Mark Carney during a toast astatine a moving meal successful Gyeongju, South Korea, connected Oct 29. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press)

Asked by reporters Friday whether negotiations betwixt his medication and Canada could resume, Trump said nary portion praising Carney arsenic “nice.”

 “I similar him a lot, but you know, what they did was wrong,” Trump said from Air Force One.

On Saturday, Carney said helium saw the advertisement earlier it aired and told Ford that helium didn’t deliberation it was a bully idea.

Speaking earlier this week, Ford said helium had a antithetic recollection of their speech but did accidental Carney called him “a mates of times” from Asia to inquire him to propulsion the TV spots. 

“I afloat recognize the presumption he’s in,” Ford said Monday of Carney. “He’s trying to speech to the president, but the president was going to springiness america a unspeakable deal.” 

That aforesaid time B.C. Premier David Eby announced that his authorities was ending a program to tally its ain ads targeting Trump’s tariffs, due to the fact that they had go a “source of anxiety” for the national government.

“We person committed to the national authorities that erstwhile the clip comes to beryllium speaking straight to Americans, we volition bash it successful concern with them,” Eby said during a acme connected softwood lumber, different manufacture deed hard by U.S. duties.

While Trump has threatened an added 10 per cent hike connected Canadian imports helium yet to contented an enforcement bid oregon springiness a date.