Prime Minister Mark Carney on Thursday pitched stronger economic ties with Canada to American investors in New York.
Carney was in New York on Thursday, meeting business leaders, CEOs and money managers with an aim to attract foreign investors to Canada.
“Let’s be absolutely clear. Canada Strong will help make America great again,” Carney said while speaking at the Economic Club of New York.
Carney’s speech came as the review of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico trade deal, or CUSMA, is drawing closer.
“Canada is America’s largest customer. We buy more goods from America than China, Japan, and Germany combined. Those common interests run through our supply chains,” Carney said, adding that Ottawa had made “specific, practical proposals” to the Trump administration.
Carney called for greater integration between the two nations, particularly in the automobile, critical minerals, agriculture and energy sectors.
“Canadian exports to the United States are the energy equivalent of 10 Hoover Dams. With America’s growing energy needs because of the incredible transformation there, does it really make sense to build the gigawatts here needed to replace Canada?” he said.
Carney pitched Canada as a “reliable, predictable partner” for investors “in a world where transactions are replacing relationships.”
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Speaking earlier in the day, Industry Minister Melanie Joly said Carney and Trump were “constantly” in touch as the CUSMA negotiations draw nearer.
The trade deal, which was signed in 2018 and touches virtually all trade between Canada, the U.S. and Mexico, is scheduled for a review by July 1 this year.
“Prime Minister Carney is in contact with President Trump constantly, and also they have met each other around the world and they will be meeting each other very soon, as the G7 will be hosted in France in June, so very shortly,” Joly said.
In the coming weeks, as the CUSMA review draws closer, other Canadian ministers will also be deployed to the U.S. to meet with business leaders and stakeholders in the private sector, Joly said.
“We need to be able to talk to many allies across the U.S. Many of us ministers will be deployed across the U.S. as well to be talking to the private sector and different communities across the country,” Joly said.
Canada is more proactive now, rather being reactive, in managing the trade war with U.S., Joly said.
“In 2025, we were much more in reaction mode when it came to the trade war and the tariffs. In 2026, we have a plan and we’re putting it into place,” she said.
U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said Tuesday there are significant trade issues with Canada but he has been in regular contact with his Canadian counterparts.
Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc has been having “key conversations this week and even meetings” with Greer, Joly said, while she has been meeting with private sector representatives from both sides of the border in tariff-hit sectors like automobiles, forestry, steel and aluminum.
The CUSMA review sets up a three-way choice for each country to make in July. They can renew the deal for another 16 years, withdraw from it or signal both non-renewal and non-withdrawal — which would trigger an annual review that could keep negotiations going for up to a decade.
Greer has suggested that the Trump administration is unlikely to rubber-stamp a renewal and the three countries are preparing for lengthy trade talks.
Trump froze negotiations with Canada last year because he was angered by an Ontario-sponsored ad quoting former president Ronald Reagan criticizing tariffs.
— with files from The Canadian Press
Let me get this straight. Oh US we are not going to deal with you, but that will make you stronger? Heres the finger, but by the way give us trade concessions? This is like some kind of surreal bad horror movie, ” Carney the destroyer”…
Canada just slid into a technical recession. We can thank faiiled Liberal policies last 10 years.
Carney to prove he is serious about a deal with the USA should start wearing a MAGA hat in Parliament and public appearances.
I have been a life long Conservative since I first voted for Diefenbaker, Carney speech to the Economic Club & the Q&A after revealed him to me as the most intelligent & pragmatic PM in our history, He is not political or ideologic but a pure center right manager and problem solver, Both right wing Conservatives and left wing Liberals will hate his reasoned practical and realistic understanding of best case policies and proceedures,
Trudeau was totally lost and turned to Carney early in his leadership.
Now you can see the weakness,empty promises and platitudes that Trudeau was known for coming thru from their place of origin, Carney.
The statement from him about less showboating was exactly that.Showboating.And it will continue on with no concrete results exactly as did when the little potato was around.
Well there you go Liberals.
Carney moved Brookfield to the States and now he is supporting MAGA !
You obeyed Trump when he said to vote for the Liberals because they would be easier to deal with and Carney is promoting Make America Great Again.
Now in Canada, the question needs to be asked.
“Who are the real Trump Supporters ?”
Evidence suggests it’s the Liberal Electorate.
Gone to NewYork ,the city of debauchery and fornication,for an evening of liquor and ladies of the night .
Repent !!! Mark Carney and lead the Liberal Party out of its depravity !
What a hypocrite Careny is.
No surprise . My roommate in Unversity dated Carnwy till she found out he was very inadequate below the belt line.
Trump knows Carney is a spineless loser. Bad for Canada
If Carney had Trump’s ear, he wouldn’t be doing a sales pitch in NY. Dude is nothing but a used car salesman in a Hugo Boss suit.
Canada lost when he became PM
Canada a total joke under “Davos” Carney. Get a real PM with some balls
Carney went from Elbows Up to Sucking Up. Dude is total garbage
@Anon. Who is more uneducated. Canada has voted for the same garbage party since 2015. Sober up convict
America was never great. It’s a corrupt and greedy country filled with the uneducated and it always has been.
Laughing at you loozers in Canada voting for the same thing since 2015. Trudeau and Carney one of the same.
Where are all the Elbows up commenters now? Carney is sucking Trump. Absolutely embarrassing for Careny
Finally!
Carney is a total fake and phone just like Shoe Polish PM Trudeau
Wow,looks like a bunch of Liberals got their Welfare Cheques,hit the liquor store and decided to join the conversation .
Obviously still obsessed with Poilievre while blind to the corruption and lies of the LPC.
Sober Up Elbozos and try living in reality for a change
What’s with the Libriturd flapping off about Jamil Javani.
Go play with your elbows,clown
he is destroying Canada just like the fruit cake for him, best thing for him is to take his lib party and move to India
@Pierre Poli.
What does Jamil looks have to do with anything I am sure you realize Carney is nothing special or his he man wife
Didn’t Carnwy bad mouth the MAGA Movement? What a hypocrite.
Such a joke! As so many here have said “elbows up”, such a hypocrite!
Constant flip flops by spineless Carney. Hilarious
Carney is an idiot.
Do you naysayers rather prefer big head jamil jivani lick your boots?
Canada is a superpower of virtue signalling and false promises. Talk is cheap.
More Carney big talk. Bla bla bla and nothing will happen. Liberal loonies
Is Carney proposing to make America the 11th province? What a novel idea!
Canada is a weak country. USA could invade and take over within a few hours.
@Anon. Great deflection. PP was in the HoC totally mocking Suck Up Carney.
Where’s PP?
Carney is at 67% support this week.
Liberals love PP as their opponent.
Standing ovation in New York.
Losers here are all on welfare as they have no education.
Which group matters? lol
@Erika: You are full of zhit.
@Duke. You are dreaming in technicolor. Time to get off the sauce.
The only thing this man has done is doubled our debt in one year. At this point, what’s the f****** point of these people? They’re just collecting a paycheck
You first have to make Canada strong first before you can go help. The states make America great again. Whole lot of talking out your ass And Canada is far from being strong
Carney continues to flip flop like a fish and is sucking and blowing at the same time. Total hypocrisy.
Is there now a business case.
Imagine if the Conservatives talked this way. Liberals would go absolutely full on outrage. Carney went from Elbows Up to Suck Up.
Duke talks like a l I b t a r d on steroids
What great trade deals has Carney made with the rest of the world Duke ? Should take you about 5 seconds to write those deals down
Carney is a total cheeseball and full of slogans. After a year, nothing has been accomplished.
@Duke. Drinking the Liberal Kool-Aid no doubt. Hilarious
@Jeff. Didn’t Chetwynd BC have a mass shooting just recently.
I thought Carney and the Liberals didn’t like MAGA? It was Elbows Up and now Carney is sucking up.
Scars and Gripes: Where’s today’s mass shooting at? A mall? School? Phuck off stupid.
What we have here is a room full of MAGA morons.
Canada is a lame duck without the USA. Mr Elbows Up Carney is now bootlicking the USA for investment and business.
No new deal, let CUSMA run it course and deal with the next sane President. Keep making deals with the rest of the world. Any new deals with the US will gravy. Don’t let the rightnuts in and kiss the Orange guys asa. strong!
Carney promised that a trade deal with Trump would be done by end of July 2025. It is almost June 2026. A total fail by Carney writ large. Now he is bootlicking Trump after his Elbows Up rhetoric was just for show.
I am glad Trump was punishing Canada. Canada was a bad partner. Totally complacent and freeloading off the USA. Canada refused to pay their fair share with NATO and multiple of other this. Canada needs to bow to MAGA and show respect.
We will never be Canada strong long as Carney is in power. The liberals are not good for Canada.
They sure do love their slogans
Amazing that there are still people stupid enough to buy into them
Which is it Carney we hate the USA and Americans ,there has been an,irreparable ” rupture” ,Canada is European and aligning with China etc or we are going to build North America strong safe and prosperous with the USA and Mexico????
why would I join in a conversation run by MAGA bots?
MAGA Trump didn’t create the modern US. He inherited it, but acts like it was all because of him. Had his policy been implemented since the beginning, the US would be a banana republic with frequent civil war…and that is where he is trying to lead his lawless country.
Of course. All one needs to do is look at a map and see that long border we share with the US, and those big oceans separating us from Europe and Asia. The US is and will always be our most important trading partner.
Carney flip flop daily with POTUS Trump. It is obvious Carney has no plan or no spine either.
USA is great regardless of Canada. USA calls the shots.
Canada prospers because of the USA. Not the other way around.
Mr Slogan Carney. After a year, nothing has been accomplished.
Carney went from Elbows Up to Bootlicking. This guy flip flops daily. So much for the “only guy” that can get a deal with Trump. Total flop so far.
That’s a brilliant line, “Canada strong will make America great again”. This should be cause for pause with American lawmakers.
Man will spend all of our tax dollars destroying this country. He will be gone; Trump will be gone and all we will have left is debt, High interest rates, high unemployment rates.
@Marilyn . Deflect much. Obviously can’t answer truthfully …so say but look over there. Last time I checked its been liberals destroying the country the last 10 years or so. From second best in the world to 19th. Elbows up!
Don’t you dare do that.
trump is trying to get extortion money on the Gordie Howe bridge.
They now hate trump in Michigan too.
@ Jimmie” Remind us again what PP’s qualifications are.
Not even a paper boy?
Blew a 28 point lead?
Nice personal chef, chauffeur, and mansion though.
A real worker! LOL
aw….the Russian troll Tony Fuda is here today cheering against a strong Canada as usual. HIs real name is Peter Belinski and he is a coward avoiding Ukraine.
@ Pierre: Another idiot. PP is the slogan guy for morons. Where have you been?
Les: You are a PP fan and therefore stupid. New York is pro Carney., anti-trump.
“Let’s be absolutely clear. Canada Strong will help make America great again,”
Saying this in a blue state probably won’t help him make any friends.
Bla bla bla
I thought Carney said there was a “rupture” and that the existing relationship with the USA is over. He keeps flip flopping like a fish along with his endless slogans.
Love how you switch the name of the article, you know it was a lie.
Elbows………
Elbows Up Carney gaslights Canadians. Probably his only conservation with Trump is thru Truth Social. In over a year, tariffs are higher now then under Trudeau and Carney not got even 1 tariff line items reduced or eliminated.
Remind us again your qualifications again Joly other than the DEI hire you are!
Carney can’t handle Trump. Trump has all the cards and Carney is a spineless coward who seems to have no skill sets in negotiation.
The US don’t need or want CUSMA so it’s dead in the water the review process is Carneys way of delaying the inevitable, but don’t worry Carney has all those foreign trade deals he made to fall back on !!! At least we can buy a Chinese spy car now.
Leblanc has had one in person meeting in 7 months. He is the Minister for US Trade. Sounds like he is to busy in the gravy train in Ottawa
When the Liberals were running in the last election, they promised that they had a plan and would deal with Trump immediately.
Now it is ‘a year later, and we have a plan’. Sounds like the same one…
As Ice Cube would say “You ain’t gotta lie to kick it”