The governor of Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro, criticized the president of the United States, Donald Trump, so he called his “hard type” approach to Canada after a meeting on Monday with some provincial ministers in the city of Quebec.
Speaking to journalists after the great lakes and the governors of St. Lawrence this year and the weekend summit of the Premiers, Shapiro, a Democrat, said he hopes that Trump repair things with Prime Minister Mark Carney at his meeting on Tuesday in Washington.
“Instead of entering and trying to intimidate the prime minister, sit down and work to achieve an agreement that raises everyone,” Shapiro said.
“The president has degraded our neighbors in the north, suggesting that they should be the State 51. I respect Canadian sovereignty and I hope that tomorrow, when this meeting occurs in the White House, respect will rule the day,” he said.
“It is not in the long -term interests of the United States, I think, to have this fight with Canada.”
The governor of Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro, who was in Canada for a summit of the prime ministers and governors of the great lakes before a meeting on Tuesday between US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Mark Carney said that his government is “very worried” about the policies of the Trump administration, saying that he does not believe that trade is a zero -sum game.
Shapiro said that the commercial agreements signed about 30 years ago “did not benefit the Pennsylvanians,” an apparent reference to the loss of manufacturing jobs after Canada and the United States brought Mexico in a free trade agreement in 1994, and it is “important to negotiate new new ones.”
But Shapiro said Trump’s actions to date “are not useful” and run the risk of torpedoing the unique relationship of the United States with Canada.
In addition, Trump’s rates scheme has uploaded the prices of farmers, manufacturers and small companies in Pennsylvania now that they have to pay the United States treasure to bring some Canadian products.
“With the president by pressing the rate button, he is not just alienating one of our most important global allies. The cost for Pennsilvanians is increasing,” he said. “We are seeing that prices go up.”
The governor of Wisconsin, Tony Evers, another Democrat, was more silenced in his criticisms of Trump, but said: “Uncertainty outside Washington, DC, is a problem and should not be a problem.”
“We are in difficult times at this time,” said Evers, while promising to work closer to the Canadians through forums such as this binational summit of the leaders of the great lakes, which has Ontario and Quebec among its members.
“We are friends, we are allies, we are making great progress,” he said. “I am also worried about that progress.”
Carney and several cabinet ministers are ready to meet with the president of the United States in the White House on Tuesday, so the prime minister’s office describes as a face to face “focused on the priorities shared in a new economic and security relationship between Canada and the United States”
There is optimism around the last meeting of the Bodye Prime Minister, the US president, Donald Trump, in Washington, on the movement on steel and aluminum rates. But even if there is a great advance, tariffs on Canadian wood have become a new concern.
Carney and Trump jointly agreed to reach some kind of agreement on the rates in August, a deadline that the two parties passed without treatment.
Since then, the tariff pressure on Canada has only intensified as the Trump administration imposes its tariffs in section 232 on steel and aluminum and its derivatives and the automotive sector.
Last week, Trump announced new levies in section 232 on wood and wood, kitchen cabinets, dressers and other furniture and upholstered products, arguing that Canadian imports and others are a threat of “national security”.
Wooden rates are particularly problematic for Canadian producers, since Americans have also imposed compensatory and anti -dumping tasks under a different tariff process.
Government sources who talk to CBC News and Radio-Canadá say they are cautiously optimistic that the prime minister can negotiate some relief of steel rates when he sits with Trump.
After meeting with the governors, the Prime Minister of Ontario, Doug Ford, said he realizes that Canada has allies in his fight against Trump’s tariffs.
“Even Republicans are not very happy with what President Trump is doing,” he said. “Do not be wrong, it is a person who causes these problems.”
As for tomorrow’s meeting with Trump, Ford said he doesn’t want Carney “there, being intimidated and saying:” You’re doing this, you’re doing that. “He won’t work.”
“Hopefully, they can leave with a lot, a fair trade agreement for both sides of the border,” Ford said.
“I am sure that the prime minister is going to enter there and do a great job. He is an intelligent and intelligent businessman.”
Ontario’s Prime Minister, Doug Ford, standing next to Quebec François Legault and several governors of the great lakes on Monday before a planned meeting between the president of the United States and the Prime Minister of Canada, said he wants to see a fair trade agreement for both sides of the border.
Quebec Prime Minister François Legault, who was the host of the summit, said he is establishing the bajon bar for the Carney-Trump meeting.
But he hopes that there may be some progress in the relief of the rate given the severe economic dislocation that these taxes have already caused in critical sectors such as steel, aluminum and silviculture.
“We cannot have any expectation because it is always surprising. The results are always surprising with Trump,” he said in French.
