Canadian and U.S. officials are set to meet again Sunday with the new tariffs proposed by President Donald Trump set to take effect in just three days.
A spokesperson for the minister responsible for Canada-U.S. trade, said Dominic LeBlanc is set to speak with U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer at 4:30 p.m. Eastern.
“Their meeting will be an opportunity to take stock of the work that has been accomplished by their respective negotiating teams, and the work that still lies ahead, as we seek to reach a comprehensive deal that delivers for businesses, workers, farmers and families on both sides of the border,” said Gabriel Brunet, LeBlanc’s spokesperson, in a statement.
The meeting comes as the U.S. is set to impose a 50 per cent tariff on some Canadian goods on Wednesday, raising concerns among politicians, industries and the public.
Earlier on Sunday, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre argued tariffs must be removed on Canadian softwood lumber in any trade deal made.
“It is unacceptable for there to be U.S. tariffs on Canadian lumber,” he said during a news conference Sunday. “It’s time for Mark Carney to keep his promise that he would negotiate a win and get the tariffs off Canadian softwood lumber. No more concessions while getting nothing in return.”
Such relief may not come to fruition in the latest negotiations, based on information from sources Global News has agreed not to identify because they were not authorized to speak publicly on the trade talks.
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The gap on potential relief for the softwood lumber industry for now seems unlikely, with two sources with knowledge of the talks saying the Americans are not interested in reducing softwood tariffs and duties, which currently sit at 45 per cent.
Last week, B.C. Premier David Eby criticized the high tariff rates.
“We face higher tariffs than Russia,” B.C. Premier David Eby, whose province has a large lumber industry, said on Friday. “The U.S., for some inexplicable reason, is putting forest families out of work here in order to prioritize lumber imports from Europe and Russia.”
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While Eby, Poilievre and others are urging a fight on softwood lumber, other factors are being considered in the talks.
But as of Friday, a big gap remained between the two sides, according to sources with direct knowledge of the trade negotiations.
One source told Global News that Canada has had to fight to even negotiate on softwood lumber.
Any deal the Trump administration is willing to sign will have some form of tariffs on steel, aluminum, autos and lumber, according to sources, with the U.S. also insisting American alcohol be put back onto all provincial liquor store shelves, which multiple premiers have expressed a willingness to do if enough U.S. concessions are made.
Canada’s goal remains reaching a deal before Wednesday to avoid new 50 per cent tariffs on roughly $28 billion worth of Canadian goods from taking effect.
If a deal is reached, tariffs on Canadian autos and parts compliant under the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) would remain in place, but it is expected that they would be reduced from the current 25 per cent level, according to a source familiar with the talks. One proposal that has been discussed is a tariff rate of between 10-15 per cent on CUSMA compliant autos and parts, according to one source.
Auto industry leaders have criticized the move, while Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown said Saturday that “no deal is better than a bad deal” if the auto sector is not included in talks.
—with files from Global News’ Reggie Cecchini, Mackenzie Gray and Sergio Vargas
Auntie Olive below summed it up very well.
Peer who?
So negotiations with a raving lunatic should be easy peasy, right? So helpful to have folks like Polly, only interested in scoring a few political points, carping from the sidelines. The thinking that Carney just needs to tear a strip off Trump like you, Jimmy Nobody, would love to do and a wanna be dictator will just give in. Grow up.
As usual, Trump just wants to boast for his ego that he bullied another country for a win since he’s not winning the Iran war any time soon.. He didn’t care about a fair trade or if he hurts businesses on either side of the border.
Trump is doing what is best for the USAs best interests. Canada isn’t a part of that.
Fighting for the USA and Americans best interests
Time to walk away, this is nothing but subterfuge by the Americans.
Any deal with Trump or his minions isn’t worth the paper it’s written on at anytime.
Why would anybody make any deal with someone as dishonest as Trump anyways?
@Mary
Try me
Poilievre says a lot of things. He might try getting elected as PM and brandish a security clearance if he wants to be taken seriously. May be he should hand out gum.
Carney is hiding in Italy and scared to come back to Canada. The pitchforks are coming out as he hasn’t delivered what he promised Canadians.
I got my knee pads on for carnhole
I also hope Mark Carney is enjoying his vacation in Italy. He deserves it. It’s hard work putting the NAZl Conservatives in their place
Hope Mark is enjoying his vacation in Italy
The fake TrollsGoHome – you mean there’s more than one Trump ruining the world and lining his pockets? God help us all.
This isn’t a dictatorship. We are allowed to criticize Carney if he isn’t delivering on his promises to Canadians. Meanwhile these same people crying that Carney is being criticized are criticizing PP for things he is t accountable for. Carney needs to do his job as elected.
I think Trumps and Greer are doing an amazing job. Fighting for the USA and Americans best interests. Trump is not here to make decisions that benefit Canada. He is the American President.
I think Trumps and Greer are doing an amazing job. Fighting for the USA and Americans best interests. Trump is not here to make decisions that benefit Canada. He is the American President.
TrollsGoHome. We didn’t apply for the job, Carney did. And so far, Carney hasn’t delivered on anything. Sorry if that offends you.
@ Mary
“All the Conservatives on here and worldwide should be culled to save our planet. ”
Online death threats are a serious matter. The RCMP have been contacted regarding your post.
Tracey Malcolm – you mean “if we FEEL like it”, right?
And everybody else here – I don’t care what side you’re on…if you think you can do better, do it instead of crapping on those who are actually trying.
Deeds, not words…
F Trump and f the USA
We can criticize Careny if we fell like it. If you are so confident with Carney, why don’t care what our opinion is.
TrollsGoHome
August 17, 2026 at 7:52 am
Every real person here criticizing/trolling Carney – leave your name at the door so the rest of us can criticize/troll you if/when you are tasked with negotiating anything with the current US administration. So easy to be an armchair quarterback – try doing the work and see just how hard it actually is.
Quite simply: F*CK YOU!
How many days do they have left to live?
Inflation back up again. Another failure by Carney.
@TrollsGoHome.
You seem to be the Troll on this site. Responding to everyone who isn’t happy with Carneys performance so far. And criticizing the Opposition when they are not even responsible for the negotiations with Trump. Carney is.
TrollsGoHome
August 17, 2026 at 7:52 am
Every real person here criticizing/trolling Carney – leave your name at the door so the rest of us can criticize/troll you if/when you are tasked with negotiating anything with the current US administration. So easy to be an armchair quarterback – try doing the work and see just how hard it actually is.
Where is Lord Carney? Italy? or is he visiting Canada?
Every real person here criticizing/trolling Carney – leave your name at the door so the rest of us can criticize/troll you if/when you are tasked with negotiating anything with the current US administration. So easy to be an armchair quarterback – try doing the work and see just how hard it actually is.
Send in PP in his adorable Liberace costume! The Whinestone Cowboy cand fellate trump. Again.
@ Amanda:
Are you that crazy? Carney didn’t have to sell anything except that he is not PP!!!!!
Demand for Canadian citizenship soaring and it’s Americans that are coming. See the CBC headline.
I’m from the States myself. Michigan,
Carney oversold himself to Canadians as the guy who can get a deal with Trump, now he is hiding in Italy at this most important time.
He is a total poseur and charlatan.
@Tom. Carney is the one about to get hammered. He the one not getting results.
Marrk Carney just isn’t ready.
Nice portfolio though
Carney’s new name gonna be “Fiddy Percent Flip Flop Foldin “
All the Conservatives on here and worldwide should be culled to save our planet. Along with Republicans, facists, dictators, religious bigots and communist leaders. And straight men shouldn’t be allowed to run for office. Just look at the total mess straight men have made of the world.
Karknee gonna hold Trumpmeister weiner while he pizzles ,as he’s signing tariffs into law
Clownshoes Carny about to get facked by donkey in couple days
Huge failure by Carney. He didn’t keep his promises to Canadians.
Liberal politicians and their voters 69ing like life depended on it
Carney whole 2025 Election promise was that he was the only person that could get a deal a deal with Trump. He stated he understood Trump and knew how to “manage” him. False promises by Carbey.
Why is the sub head here about Poilievre? He has nothing to do here. What does Avi Lewis think needs to be done? How about Elizabeth May? Just an irrelevant grandstander. Global gives him far too much attention.
If Poilievre wants to be taken seriously he should get his security clearance so he can personally participate in the meetings that are a national concern.
Without the clearance he has to sit in the other room at the kids’ table while the adults discuss the business of the gov’t.
@ MSGH Actually Carney promised a deal by July 31, 2025. Thanks for tying.
PP: Mark Carney didn’t promise that he would negotiate a win; he promised a good deal or no deal. Maybe it’ll be no deal because if we make too many concessions, what we end up with will be the base for the next negotiations, and the Americans will demand concessions from that. I just hope Carney is planning appropriate reprisals.
With any luck, by the time of the next negotiations, we will have new markets to replace most of our American markets.
Liberalism destroyed our relationship with the USA and ruined our country.
Just keep those elbows up and keys by the front door.
But but Trump! But BUT PIERRE!!
Carney said he’d handle Trump and have a deal done last year…
Carney said “judge me by my prices at the grocery stores” and canada has the #1 highest grocery inflation in the world….it was announced the average Canadian family will pay $1200 more in groceries this year.
Weakest military in the G7.
Only G20 nation in a recession.
Homelessness, drug addiction and foodbank visits at all time highs.
2.3 million Canadians visit a foodbank each MONTH in Canada.
What does the left do?
Keep voting liberal and blame trump, Pierre pollievre and Ford for everything.
Elbows Down bozos 🤡
Dave – you would know since you’re the target market.
Vote liberal for 12 years and what you get is the same thing, more debt more lies more taxes.
Can’t wait for Trump to punish Canada. Long time coming.
I think Carney will drop from his elbows to his knees Wednesday morning?
@Benoit . Didn’t Carney promise a deal that didn’t happen over a year ago. Carneys record is garbage.
Um…who cares what PP thinks? He is at 18% approval and dropping every day. No one cares what he thinks. If you want to see what CONservatives do to economies, look no further than PP’s beloved USA.
@Benoit. Funny comment. It is Carney who has given concessions with nothing in return. Most likely Carney will sell out Canada in the end as he hasn’t delivered anything in 16 months.
Carney has totally dropped the ball. His Elbows Up approach was pure theatre and the Americans know this. Canada in a bad situation if Careny can deliver on his promise to Canadians. Most likely he won’t deliver.
No deal is better than a bad deal. 18% Poilievre and his MAGA Trump loving conservatives would have sold us out by now.
Hilarious comments from Elbows Up Canadians trying to deflect and make excuses on why Carney can’t deliver on his largest promise during the 2025 election. Carney will soon be thought of as a total flop that can’t deliver.
😝😝
Why do you report what Poilievre says? He’s way down in the polls and really who cares?
And Eby must certainly know what Trump is up to with his attempts to break the Canadian economy so he can take us over. Doesn’t he?
Carney is a total dud. He personally promised a deal with Trump by July 31, 2025. Not sure any PM has ever struck out more than Carney
Trollbots – it’s bedtime, turn off your computers and go upstairs.
I see rhe mental.hospital.left the computer room unlocked again
Neve realized Globals target market consisted of toddlers and psychotics
Stars and Stripes – the hand that feeds us is not yours, and that’s a good thing because we can only imagine where that hand has been…but your arrogance and exceptionalism is breathtaking. Take a bow.
@James
yeah, great idea except that export taxes are paid by the exporter, so we can tax ourselves until the price makes those things not worth buying anymore.
I wonder if you understand that the retaliatory tariffs we imposed were paid by Canadians when they ordered items from the US?
We paid for this trade war with our retaliation taxes going to the Liberals.
They bragged about how much they made off Canadians.
If those illegal 50% tariffs take effect we need to place export surchargesd of 50% on those goods from Canada that Trump claims the US doesn’t need: oil, natural gas, electricity, potash, uranium and as China showed: rare earth minerals and precious metals.
Total checkmate by Trump. Elbows Up Careny has been total exposures as something you can’t pull the trigger. Total flop.
Cave-man Carney will probably get us a bad trade deal, no CUSMA deal and probably give away the other 50% of the bridge tolls while telling Canadians that we won the “Trade War”.
China is replacing the US as the superpower in the world, and all the king’s men and all the king’s horses can’t put Humpty Dumpty Trumpie back together again. The right vs left in the US is a divide that can’t be fixed until the US scraps its system of divided powers and becomes a parliamentary democracy.
This a wake up call, not to trust America anymore. It is sad to see Trump single handedly destroyed the relationship that was once built on trust. MAGA can blame us all they want but AI and robotics will take over their jobs. And worse, other countries will no longer deal with them because they are no longer considered trustworthy, and it is all due to Trump.
There is no “business case” for the USA to sign a trade deal with Chinada.
Canada as defined by Trudeau and Carney as a systemically racist “post national state, with no core identity, no mainstream” ethics, borders, rule of law, Charter of Rights and Freedoms, or fiscal restraint is not something to be patriotic about or worth Elbowing Up over.
If USMCA collapses that is worse than “no deal”. Most likely all Japanese Auto Manufacturers will leave Canada and go
to the USA. I guess Carney is tying to get Canadians ready of his total failure to get a deal that he promised.
Love how the TDS patients assume anyone with a contrary opinion is a bot. Did you accept the programming directly from Liberal HQ or are you that far gone?
The “no deal is better than a bad deal” is the Liberal way to say
“Carney failed”
And yes, a revolution that replaces our elitiats with something less gay.
I demand a new comstitution.
The Liberals will cut a deal or they will be a target of accusations and such fragmented projectiles.
Good job Mark.
Repeat Global News Media just regurgitate the same rhetoric and call it news! Canada trades $880B yearly with the US and everyone is going crazy over a 3% of that $880B.
We will survive as always one way or the other.
As long as the corrupt lying bastard Carney is in things will only get worse CrimeConCarney and the rest of the liberals all belong in jail for Treason
Make a deal or learn some specific maths and hope your jailor knows it…
All our jobs are going south, but if we follow our jobs to the US, Carney will charge us an “exit tax”.
If we stay, we can get a little welfare every month and be homeless.
That is the bad deal that is worse than no deal.
@Annoying PP.
Carneys failures are really stacking up. His major election promise, that he was the “guy” who could get a deal with Trump, has been a total nothing burger. Hilarious.
“We face higher tariffs than Russia,” B.C. Premier David Eby, whose province has a large lumber industry, said on Frid”
that’s because this dystopian country is worse than Russia. far more communist. approaching North Korean idealogy. or rather idiotology.
Carney has been a total failure on his one and only election promise that he made to Canadians.
He will probably celebrate his failures by sending a few hundred million dollars to Freeland in Ukraine while he is on vacation in Italy.
What will he do next week? Go sell some drones to Iran?
The Conservative bottom feeder banquet has begun. Bring on the paid bots. The true Conservative way. Bahahaha.
“No deal is better than a bad deal” is the talking point the media is selling now, which means there will be no deal.
Next weeks articles feature Elliot Page, Justin Bieber and some CEO of a large Canadian corporation all saying
“no deal is better than a bad deal.”
How can we deal with a lunatic who doesn’t care about his own country.
Canadians voted for Elbows Up. This is what you wanted. You wanted a fight and you got it. Vote better next time and don’t bite the hand that feeds you.
Carney should go visit Trump and get down on one knee and kiss Trump’s ring and say
“We’re sorry. We think we are entitled to a trade deficit and you really hurt our little feewings with your 51st state jokes. How about I remove the liquor ban, will that convince you we want to make a trade deal?”
trump can’t even beat Iran’s camels.
Just an ass.
4:22 post is stupid beyond words.
Must be PP.
Carney doesn’t want a trade deal, he want’s the US to destroy the Canadian economy to turn Canada into a socialist state.
When there is no jobs and everything is not affordable to anyone then we will “own nothing and be happy”.
Tell the orange clown to sod off ,
If he institutes these clearly illegal nonsensical tariffs on Wednesday .
The rolling blackouts , oil shortages and sorry we are out of potash should start Thursday AM.
Enough of this American cretin!
@for sure. Keep pretending other countries haven’t signed deals. You voted for the wrong PM. Pretty typical Canadian self destruction if i’m being honest.
Love all these self entitled red lines. So much unity, elbozos. You voted for this… so guess you’re accountable for whatever happens
Liberals aka elbozos = goliath. .USA = MAGA = David. Fight, fight fight! LOL
Trump is an amazing American President. I love the MAGA Movement. Trump has an American First policy and looks after the interests of the USA.
I hope the new Trump tariffs go on in Canada w want to negotiate in good faith. Tired of Canadians taking advantage and freeloading on many issues. Most 911 bombers came in thru Canada to start.
The Americans are out to destroy our economy and plunder our resources. There won’t be any deals unless it benefits them and them only. The best hope we still have is our current government even though that seems quite futile as well.
Dave – you can’t negotiate with someone who believes that negotiation means “I get all your stuff and you get nothing”.
You also can’t negotiate with someone who will renege on any deal before the ink has dried. That’s Trump’s strategy – he’s the one playing childish games.
Carney and his supporters would rather play childish games than negotiate a deal
It allows them to keep blaming Trump for their own incompetence