Crucial Quote
Carney’s statement added: “Canada has made a series of detailed and comprehensive proposals to resolve this dispute and to modernize CUSMA. We stand ready to intensify those discussions in the coming weeks…This trade dispute has raised costs for families, particularly in the U.S.”
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Chief Critic
Unlike Carney’s more guarded statement, Ontario Premier Doug Ford, who has called out Trump’s tariffs in the past, tweeted: “I’ll never stop fighting to protect Ontario. If these tariffs proceed, Canada should respond tariff for tariff, dollar for dollar.”
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What have trump administration officials said?
In a statement after the tariffs were announced, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer attacked the Canadian government, saying: “Canada, unlike other partners and allies, continues to retaliate against the United States for its efforts to rebalance trade and protect U.S. industry in national-security sensitive sectors…Specifically, Canada has taken U.S. alcohol products off Canadian shelves, given better market access to dairy products from the European Union, and has put a cap on U.S. vehicle exports to Canada from companies reshoring to the United States.”
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