Prime Minister Mark Carney’s new advisory council on Canada—U.S. trade met for the first time Monday, ahead of trade negotiations with President Donald Trump’s White House that are set to begin over the coming months.
Carney recently struck the new committee in preparation for the scheduled review of the Canada-United States-Mexico agreement on trade, better known as CUSMA, which must start by July.
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Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc chaired the closed-door meeting of the council’s roughly two dozen members, which include leading Canadian business and labour leaders.
LeBlanc’s office says the committee reviewed Canada’s priorities for CUSMA renewal talks but did not say what those priorities are.
The trade advisory group includes former Conservative party leader Erin O’Toole and former premiers Jean Charest and P.J. Akeeagok.
The advisory panel also welcomed a new member today: Eliot Pence, the founder of the Canadian defence tech firm Dominion Dynamics.
James S. Keep your elbows up while you keep your face is in the sand. If you hate the US that much for doing what is best for them and while we break cusma agreements.(Ie we try to put a dst on services when the cusma agreements says we can’t.) Carney is fooling you but orange man is bad. Don’t get me wrong, orange man says lots of stupid things but many of the policies they are doing I do agree with. We don’t use the little leverages we have very well. Don’t worry the new liberal scandal is here with the $300 million precribeIT prob that the liberals are shutting down.
Good Day,
Just curious, if Alberta did separate from Canada; how would the new country get established with the existing / new CUSMA?.
Take Care, Robert
sorry spoke too soon
respect
deleting comments only proves that you sre afraid of the truth. ha ha gooo carney
us will not allow any new states you should do some research. 2/3 of both houses have to vote for a territory to become a state that’s why puerto rico will never be a state. i want to live in a common sense country that cares for its citizens before borrowing to help people in other countries. i didnt start off as a separatist i became one when covid showed how crazy canada( and us dem states) got. the elections are decided in canada before the west is even done voting. floor crossers make a mandate? why wouldn’t i want to be in a country that is free. i used to be a canadian nationalist until i realized how stupid that is. canada is a un dictate state all policies are derived from international treaties, that’s why the gov is giving away people’s land without a referendum. at least the people will get a say in alberta thats more then anyone else can say in the federation. freedom is like a drug once you taste it you want more. these moves that the feds are making help freedom in alberta. if pp had won the movement would be dead that’s why i say gooo carney
Yet another group led by LeBlanc. The name says it all. How long has he been at these ‘negotiations’? For a pretty long time, and as the name suggests, nothing.
@pete, yer deluded. Alberta will be state 51. Trump will walk right in and take your oil and sovereignty without a shot. Smith has already paved the way. Despite all Carlin’s words, what did he actually do to make this better? Not much. Highlighted what most with common sense already know.
I ask you, do you think with your own brain or just waft along on the words of others?
i actually don’t like the us too much, wont go there but i respect the actions they are taking for the good of the people. i try to always be objective and pit myself in someone elses shoes i would be happy if i lived in the rust belt of usa. but i also subscribe to the George Carlin principles. its all theater. also signed the petition for freedom if we win then alberta will be one of the richest and most prosperous countries in the world. goo carney
Yeah whatever pete, you anti Canadian mutt. Move to the USA! Leave Canada for Canadians who care!! You freaks make me sick.
i know we’ll set a trade advisory committee while refusing to negotiate. the us has just bypassed us all together they are offering the steel and aluminium plants no tariffs on canadian goods if they build a facility in the us. its a brilliant tactic. to save their companies they invest in the us then when the facilities are built out they will naturally need less canadian product, plus the companies won’t complain because they will be american lol. these guys in the us are geniuses compared to us. gooo carney
Carneys trade advisory group, AKA Canadas ‘weaknesses’