There is only one trade negotiator for Canada and it’s the federal government, Prime Minister Mark Carney said when asked about Conservative MPs meeting U.S. trade representatives.
Conservative MP Jamil Jivani was back in Washington on Wednesday with a handful of Tory colleagues for a meeting with Canadian business interests and United States Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, The Canadian Press reported on Wednesday.
Canadian Ambassador Mark Wiseman was also in attendance.
On Thursday, Carney was asked what he made of the efforts by the Conservatives.
“We’re both free countries, so people can go where they wish,” Carney said.
“In the end, there’s one negotiator for Canada, and that is the government of Canada. Our interlocutors in the United States are generous people, they’re generous with their time and it’s good of them to meet a host of Canadians coming down. But in end they know, and we know that we’re the negotiators,” he added.
The Canada-U.S.-Mexico Free Trade Agreement, also known as CUSMA, is up for renegotiation this summer.
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Jivani counts U.S. Vice-President JD Vance among his close friends.
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On Wednesday morning, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre was asked who Jivani was meeting with and what he hoped to achieve.
“I don’t have any information on that at this point to share,” he said. “Our MPs have been consistently going to Washington to fight for tariff-free trade.”
Poilievre also said the Carney government “should use every relationship we have as Canadians” to help secure a trade deal with the U.S.
Later in the day, a spokesperson for Poilievre’s office said that “a delegation” of Tory MPs was in Washington “carrying the Conservative party’s Team Canada message.”
That group included Conservative finance critic Shuvaloy Majumdar, foreign affairs critic Michael Chong and MPs Jacob Mantle and Corey Tochor.
— With files from The Canadian Press
Max maduro carnage has no intentions to negotiate ANYTHING for Canadians. His only objective is to bankrupt the country as his personal play toy.
Considering the actual government has been no negotiations in the last 6 months, a more accurate title for this article should be …”There is no negotiator for Canada as Conservatives meet U.S. on trade”
Imagine a sitting MP doing something positive for their constituents, instead of sitting around and watching the false majority destroy key trade relations over their pathetic emotions
Liberals will bankrupt Canada
Wow…everybody criticizing Mr.Carney…saying the TELUS COLLECTION AGENT is a better choice! There are no words.
Well at least the Tories are trying, and who again is the person negotiating, cause this clown Carney has only did more damage. And continues to make dumb Utubes!
Carney is handling it. The Con Reformers think they are going to negotiate with Trump?! You can’t trust this regime. They have broken the law by reneging on the existing trade agreement. Waiting for the mid terms.
Butt out Jivani. Unless you were just sofa shopping with your buddy JD.
@Duke. Currently the CPC is the Offical Opposition and job is to hold the Govt to account. So they are relevant.
Suck it up Buttercup
Mexico is miles ahead, USA opened up to negotiation last fall and carney still has not shown up. He wants EU Bloc access instead to force carbon trade ETS in Canada to shore up weak support for it in the EU and a whole new market in Canada.
Carney majority mandate is to enrich his Brookfield funds he started and still holds massive investments in (they can’t be traded away and expire 2030)
What a joke…Tories trying desperately to find some relevance….try finding a leader instead
Carney is scared that others might get more results than he has which is nothing so far to date.
In a literal sense the country of Canada has dozens of negotiators. In a figurative sense if we do have a chief negotiator I would love to know who they are and what theyve been doing for the last 12 months…
Carney has been a massive failure so far on the trade deal with the USA
Sucking up to Dumpster
Carney is a weak leader and negotiator. Total amateur hour and a disgrace.
“But in end they know, and we know that we’re the negotiators,” he added.”
If he has to say this out loud, shows just how weak they are.
The conservatives are no doubt telling the US that Canada can give up this or that for a deal. Just deplorable! And the critics of Carney saying we should have a deal. No. I don’t want my government selling out our sovereignty to the US like Poilivere and the Conservatives would.
Whinny people who somehow have forgotten it all started with Pierre Trudeau, And carried on by Mulroney and his failed son.
Carney doesn’t live in Canada, he doesn’t give a f@!k
We know that Carney is no good at negotiating. After a year, he has struck out against superior Trump who has dominated Carney
I hope this somethingbhe is going to follow thru with.
Well why isn’t the federal government negotiating on trade like Carney promised over a year ago. No instead he concentrated on buying a majority government so he can do whatever he wanted without answering to the Canadian people in an election
If you can’t backup the ELECTED officials, get out of the way.
I hope the NDP, Green Party, Bloc all get down there also.-lol What a way to show our unification, when one party (PC )have a seperate agenda with no power,authority,PP today, tomorrow nor near future. I hope we taxpayers are not funding this… PPs job as opposition has gotta be the easiest vocation. Say the opposite to governing body, come up with not proven “better” plan that never needs details cause it will never amount to anything. I think he’s struggling as Carneys’ ideas/strategy seem more PC than PPs.
Team Canada for this is only Carney and his Liberal cronies. How many times did Lard Ford go down with no results like Carney & Trudeau.
What about non union apprentices? Any time I hear about union incentives, I worry about more union, particularly public sector unions, and corruption. It seems like as usual, the liberals are once again buying voters.