Mark Carney: "An attitude at the negotiation table that Canada is a subsidiary of the US, that Canadian industry is going to be disadvantaged relative to American industry, that's not something we're going to accept. And that's before you get to constraints on our ability to do what the... rest of the world wants, which is to sign trade deals with Canada."show more

Imagine thinking you can tell us who we can and can't trade with.

Canada to USA : We will never accept to be treated with disrespect and arrogance .

The question everyone should be asking is: Why destroy partnerships that have benefited everyone? Greed and arrogance are a recipe for embarrassment, failure, and ultimately destruction.

The American view was that Canada should be almost wholly a natural resource based economy, only engaging in growing and extraction. Refining, manufacturing, research and development, all the final stage work where lucrative value added is done should be in the US.

Listen to the end. He's describing constraints on Canada's ability to sign trade deals with anyone else. That's not a tariff dispute. That's asking a sovereign country to clear its foreign commerce with Washington. He announced EU talks this fall. Now you know why.

this administration is breathtakingly shortsighted. it acts like the u.s. is the whole world, then gets offended when canada remembers there’s an entire world to trade with. nothing accelerates diversification quite like making your closest ally regret depending on you

I wish he’d demand a trump resignation before any more negotiations. And that Europe would follow.

Are Trump's new tariffs in violation of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), the trade pact between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico that replaced NAFTA on July 1, 2020??

@StellaR_Canada I’m so glad we punted the runt. I have the utmost confidence in our PM.

Carney is running a classic emotional playbook. He frames the U.S. as the aggressor treating Canada like a “subsidiary,” declares “we got attacked” and “you’re at war when you’re attacked,” wraps it in sovereignty, French-language culture, and “Canadians will always take care of each other.” That language is designed to trigger unity, identity, and resentment so people stop asking hard questions. Once the other side is painted as the enemy out to “break us so they can own us,” any deal starts looking like surrender and walking away starts looking like strength—even if it means higher costs, lost jobs, and supply-chain pain for ordinary Canadians. But “attitude at the table” is not a serious reason to abandon negotiations and impose matching tariffs that will hit Canadian workers, farmers, and businesses. Hard bargaining is normal. Last-minute demands happen. The concrete issues Carney listed (auto content, limits on other trade deals, cultural protections) can be fought item by item. Declaring the whole process dead because of the other side’s posture, then escalating, prioritizes optics over results. Canadians voted Carney in to manage the relationship with the United States and secure the best possible deal for Canada—not to treat a deal as optional or to pivot into long-term diversification as the primary goal. That was the clear expectation when he campaigned on handling Trump and protecting Canadian interests in the existing North American framework. Walking away and celebrating the “elbows up” posture reverses that. If the original promise was a workable arrangement with our largest trading partner, then the measure of success is whether one gets delivered, not whether the rhetoric feels defiant. People’s ancestors left Europe and other systems for a reason: to escape entrenched hierarchies, over-regulation, and attitudes that treated ordinary people as subordinates. The instinct to defend Canadian independence is real. Using that same instinct to justify prolonged economic friction with the U.S. while floating closer alignment elsewhere is the opposite of learning from history. Get past the anti-Trump insecurities and the emotional high of standing up to the big neighbour. Look at the actual costs both sides will pay, the share of Canadian exports that go south, and whether any specific U.S. demand was truly non-negotiable versus simply inconvenient. Reasonable people can reject a bad deal; they should not accept permanent self-inflicted damage because the other side’s tone offended. Demand the deal that was promised. Question the walk-away. Separate the feeling of defiance from the arithmetic of who actually pays.

We need to talk, but Donald Trump and his goons think that they’re gonna just roll over Canada. Listen, you’ll be coming to the table because your people are gonna tell you paedophile king get to the table and talk things out properly. Are they gonna impeach him one or the other.

No, only if Trump would be able to talk like that in a respective businessman way, maybe America’s would have a chance, but he is so retarded as a person with wealth has no damn education, which is hard to believe I can get a person off the street that is better educated than him

Canadians are not going to waste their time negotiating with a US presumptuous and arrogant attitude.

Hey Mark Carney - sign trade deals with Canada? How is that trade deal with the CCP Chinese working out anyway? Any update? Includes Canada opening more CCP Chinese Gambling Casinos & Pleasure (whore) houses?

For centuries, a fundamental definition of a soveriegn state is the free ability to enter treaties of its choosing - the USA demands Canada lose such a status.

He may be a banker but he doesn’t understand contracts and much more

how refreshing to finally see someone really stand up to trump

The US is setting a trap for us; they will invade us militarily if we cut off their supply of electricity, oil, and other raw materials they deem essential. We need to be cautious and prepare for the worst.

Lies lies lies from this admin

so how much US product in there, like besides the steel hull, like engines, electronics, radar, windows, toilets, whatever how much ??

This carney guy is like 5’7”. Zero credibility. Fuck off

Just STFU and leave Carney. We really don't care. CHINA

He said exactly what the United States is trying to do trying to tell us what to sell when they sell it who does sell it and how much we should get this is not negotiation. You need a product that we have that you need now to get that product at a decent price well then we need

What’s fucking clown 🤡

Let’s hope we get an increase

You guys are getting mighty uppity. We know you are Goliath, but hey wtf?

😂🤣😂 🇨🇦 🇨🇦This two clowns 🤡 sure messed up today🇨🇦🇨🇦🤣😂💯🤪

Honestly, do Canadians not see through Carney's BS? They don't actually believe him do they?

Did he find that out when he was on vacation in Tuscany?

Do you notice how Carney never stops gesticulating? This is his unspoken method of getting his full malignant narcissist's attention.

He said it very clear "they wanted too much and offered too little, this is not a way to negotiate". The "great dealmaker" is great and dealmaker only in his ill mind in his dementia haze... With all this, China and Baron are the only winners.