Prime Minister Mark Carney says that he has not yet talked to the president of the United States, Donald Trump, since he assumed the position last week, which implies that the president is waiting for the results of the federal elections.
Carney, who swore as a prime minister 10 days ago, told reporters on Monday that he is willing to talk to Trump, if the president shows respect for Canada.
“I am available for a call, but we are going to talk in our terms. As a sovereign country, not like what we pretend we are, and in an integral agreement,” Carney said during a campaign stop in Gander, NL, where he leaned strongly on Canadian patriotism.
In the last sign of the deteriorated relationship between the allies that Eleven Close, the Carney team said that Trump has not called Carney to congratulate him for becoming prime minister, and has not published anything online.
Liberal leader Mark Carney, speaking while campaigning in Terranova on Monday, said his government is ready with possible additional retaliation tariffs, as well as measures to support workers and companies impacted. Carney said that the US administration believes that it can weaken, or even be to possess, Canada, a notion that it rejected, saying ‘we are going to strengthen ’.
The Canada Embassy in Washington has been in contact with US officials about a possible call between the two leaders, but there is not one in the books, said Carney camp.
On the 2 of the federal electoral campaign, the liberal leader suggested to the journalists that he believes that the president is waiting to see who will obtain a mandate of the Canadians.
“Is someone who is to quote [Alberta Premier] Danielle Smith, synchronized with him? Or is it someone who will defend Canadians? “Carney asked.” I will defend the Canadians. “
The liberal leader referred to the comments that Smith did during an interview with a right -wing media company earlier this month that is now winning traction.
Pailievre dodges the question about Smith’s comments
During the March 8 interview with Breitbart, Smith talked about changing political winds in Canada since Trump launched his commercial war.
Smith told Breitbart that the threat of “unfair and unfair rates” had promoted liberal support, and said he told US officials that he expected that “we could put things in pause” so that Canada could overcome an election.
The prime minister continued to say that conservative leader Pierre Poilievre is more aligned with the Trump administration agenda.
“Probably there will always be areas that are skirmishes or disputes over private industries when it comes to the border, but I would say that, in general, the perspective that Pierre would bring would be very synchronized with, I believe … the new direction in the United States,” he said.
Smith’s spokesman Sam Blacktt denied the accusations Smith had asked the United States to interfere with Canada’s elections.
Pailievre has dodged reporters’ questions about Smith’s comments so far in the campaign
On Monday, he said that people are free to make their own comments before repeating their tone to put “Canada first” building more energy projects and cutting taxes.
“I speak for myself” Pailievre saying.
Pailievre suggested Trump preference declared proper by a liberal victory Shows conservatives are better to face the president and his continuous tariff threats.
“This is a reason why Donald Trump wants weak liberals and out of touch in power,” he said while visiting a paper plant in Brampton, Ontario. “They gave him the control of our economy.”
Speaking in Montreal on Monday NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh called Smith “shameful.”
“She is talking about taking measures to damage liberals and avoid tariffs in a political way, to create a political result. He should be talking about stopping tariffs to protect Canadians, to stop them completely,” he said.
Gander famous for taking passengers after September 11
While in Gander, the city that received thousands of passengers when the flights were punished after September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Carney met with the locals Beulah Cooper and Diane Davis. Both characters inspired by the Distance vener musical.
Davis, a retired teacher, said “represent thousands in this district who stood that day, and then hundreds of thousands of proud Canadians who realized that this is the right thing.”
Carney said that what Gander did is an example of the “unbreakable link” between Canadians and Americans.
“Unfortunately, the actions of President Trump have put that kinship under greater tension today than at any time in our historical history,” he said.
The federal electoral campaign, which officially began on Sunday, has been largely framed as a referendum on who is better to face Trump.
This month, the president intensified his trade war by imposing 25 percent tariffs on all steel and aluminum that enters the country, which led Canada to effectively double his retaliation rates on US assets.
The next Trump volley is scheduled for April 2, although there is now confusion about whether it will continue.
Speaking about background, a White House official said that despite Trump’s repeated threats about specific tariffs in the sector, they don’t really occur next week.
“Obviously, Potus has spoken a lot about sectoral rates, but we can have sectoral tariffs on April 2 and it is not possible,” said the official in an email.
“No final decisions have been made on sectoral rates that are contributed in reciprocal for the timeline of April 2.”
The Conservative Party had been defeating the Liberal Party in public surveys for more than a year, but the CBC survey tracker suggests that the two main games are now neck from the beginning of the rates and the resignation of the former liberal prime minister Justin Trudeau.
