Why Mark Carney is NOT Rushing a BAD DEAL with United States
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Where does the Canada–United States trade deal actually stand, and is Mark Carney walking into Donald Trump’s pressure play?
In this episode of The Canadian Podcast, we break down the current state of the border file in plain language. There is still no comprehensive new agreement. Washington has signalled it feels no urgency to restart formal talks. Canada has not publicly forced a new round. At the same time, Carney has said he continues to speak with Trump regularly. The public file looks frozen. The private channel is not closed.
The latest U.S. import measures are targeted. They hurt real Canadian businesses — including a serious hit to Ontario’s spirits trade — without defining the entire economy. That pattern looks like leverage designed to extract concessions, not an attempt to collapse the whole relationship in one move.
Ottawa’s wider answer is diversification. After years of deep integration with the United States, dependence on one customer is now treated as a strategic weakness. New partnerships, investment commitments, European ties, and higher defence spending are being used as an insurance policy while the bilateral talks drag. Supply management remains a Canadian red line.
Falling for Trump’s tactic would mean rushing a weak deal just to stop the pain and the headlines. The position we examine here is different: keep the phone line open, absorb selective hits, refuse to be panicked, and use the limbo to build other options.
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