Carney says ‘time to talk’ with U.S. as Ford calls for tariff retaliation
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Mark Carney was speaking in Toronto ahead of a scheduled meeting with Ontario Premier Doug Ford, who has called on the federal government to hit back against U.S. tariffs.
Prime Minister Mark Carney said Thursday that Canada will continue to pursue “deep negotiations” with the U.S. on resolving issues of trade before resorting to retaliatory measures.
Carney was speaking in Toronto ahead of a scheduled meeting with Ontario Premier Doug Ford, who has called on the federal government to hit back against U.S. President Donald Trump’s increasingly escalatory tariffs on several sectors of the global economy that have impacted Canadian industries.
“Premier Ford and I are both interested in results for, in my case, for workers and families across Canada, of course in his case for the province of Ontario,” the prime minister told reporters. “And we’re looking to work to those ends as constructively as possible right now with the Americans.
“There’s times to hit back and there’s times to talk, and right now is the time to talk.”
Carney told reporters he would brief Ford on the U.S. negotiations when the two meet later on Thursday.
Carney and Trump tasked their teams with reaching deals “quickly” on steel, aluminum and energy following their meeting at the White House on Oct. 7, with other tariff-hit sectors like autos expected to follow after further talks.
The Prime Minister’s Office has said both sides expect work to conclude on those initial deals in the coming weeks.
“We’re engaged in deep negotiations, intensive negotiations, on several sectors of the Canadian economy,” Carney said.
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