Canada would not make any more trade concessions to get to the table with the U.S. on trade talks, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Wednesday.
While heading into a Liberal caucus meeting in Ottawa on Wednesday, Carney was asked by reporters: “would Canada make any more concessions to get to the table with the U.S.?”
Carney said, “No.”
This came as CBC News reported that the Trump administration is demanding what amounts to an “entry fee” – or a series of concessions – from Canada to engage in trade talks toward a revised CUSMA.
“We understand what some of the – what the Americans would call trade irritants or trade issues – are. We have some on our side as well. We’re well prepared around those issues,” Carney said when asked if the U.S. had asked for any concessions before the talks even began.
Both sides “will sit down and work through those issues,” Carney said.
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“We’ve made some counter proposals, which they’re aware (of). And the time will come to really roll up our sleeves,” he added.
The U.S. cannot dictate terms in a negotiation, Carney said.
“It’s not the case that the United States dictates the terms. We have a negotiation. We can come to a mutually successful outcome. It will take some time,” he said.
The Canada-United States-Mexico-Agreement (CUSMA), which governs the terms of free trade between those three countries, is up for a review before July 1 this year.
On Tuesday, Carney announced the formation of an advisory council on Canada-U.S. economic relations, which includes top industry voices from tariff-hit sectors as well as multiple prominent Conservative MPs.
United States Trade Representative Jamieson Greer has said it’s unlikely the U.S. will resolve all its trade issues with Canada and Mexico before the July 1 deadline to renegotiate the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA).
Greer also told Fox Business in mid-March that Canada was behind Mexico on trade discussions.
The council is set to hold their first meeting on April 27, 2026.
Tomorrow he may be making some concessions! That’s why today he says no more concessions.
Duke needs to get off the sauce and CBC and read some economics books.
Seems now “Hope” is a part of Carneys strategy. Elbows Up
Remember when he was running for the job, and he lied to us about the retaliatory tariffs?
Did global news call him out?
Nope.
Old Trumpy tactics aint gonna work no more. Other countries fell for them and got shafted with garbage trade deals.
Hot air to try to gain votes. “Elbows Up”! We saw how far that went, this guy speaks out of both sides of his mouth ( smoke and mirrors)!
Carney has turned out to be a total bust. During the 2025 Election, he promised he would have a deal with Trump within 90 days because he understood Trump and that Carney knows how the world works. Guess not…..Hilarious.
CUSMA review and Sectoral tariffs sre two different issues.
Carney just smoke and mirrors .
This is what you get for sending a banker to a negotiation… Someone utterly out of their depth
@duke you obviously are ignorant of the facts. Canada relies on the USA for over 75% of its trade. China is only 5% of our trade. India and all others combined only make up less than 20% of our trade. There is NEVER EVER going to be an increase of ANY substantial amount of trade between Canada and the rest of the world that can replace the trade we have with the USA. Give your head a shake and start thinking in reality not just being controlled by Carney’s lies and your own TDS.
Flip flop Elbows Up Canrey has already made huge concessions to the USA and got nothing in return. Total amateur hour.
Better for Canada to stop trade talk and let the CUSMA run it’s course until the next Administrations. Until then, keep making trade deals with the rest of the world, and any new deal with the US will just be extra gravy. We be in better position to get a deal that suits us.