The elbows above, but only sometimes
When asked if Canada is now “the elbows”, Prime Minister Mark Carney says that the country has “the lowest rate on average” after showing that he is willing to fight. But he says that this is a ‘great game’ that has now moved to a different stage.
The prime minister is standing next to the “elbows” position that he regularly repeated during the recent electoral campaign, but now he says that there is a moment in each “great game” when the strategies change.
“I’ve played a hockey over the years,” said Mark Carney.
There is “a moment in the game in which you let the gloves fall in the first period and send a message, and we have done it. Enough in the world,” he said, pointing out Canada’s choice to return the coup with the counter-tarifas, an action that most of the countries addressed to the United States avoided.
“But there is also a moment in a game in which you want the album, you want to stick, you want to pass, you want to put the album on the network … We are at that time in the game and that’s where the commitment is.”
Carney made these comments after a journalist said that the critics of the Prime Minister would suggest that Canada is effectively adopting a “elbow down” approach for the commercial war.
