U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday that negotiations with Canada on a tentative trade deal were “moving along,” as officials from both countries worked to finalize the terms ahead of yet another tariff deadline.
Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc and Canada’s chief negotiator Janice Charette met with U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer in Washington on Friday, alongside a delegation of Canadian trade officials.
Negotiators were working to iron out an agreement before sweeping 50 per cent tariffs on billions of dollars worth of goods are due to take effect at midnight Saturday.
Trump, speaking to reporters before boarding Air Force One to travel to South Carolina, would not say whether he might extend that deadline once again.
“The deal with Canada is moving along, and we should be able to have a deal with Canada,” Trump said.
“I only make good deals.”
The American tariffs were expected to take effect on Wednesday, but Trump delayed the levies for three days citing a “deal” that was in the works between both sides.
Canadian officials, led by LeBlanc and Charette, have been trying to finalize the finer points of the deal with Greer.
Mark Wiseman, Canada’s ambassador to the United States, and Marc-Andre Blanchard, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s chief of staff, are also taking part in meetings for a second day in a row.
During a virtual meeting with Canada’s premiers on Wednesday, Carney asked them to put U.S. alcohol back on their shelves to help the deal progress, several premiers said.
Provincial boycotts of American alcohol have been a major trade irritant for Trump, who pointed to what he called “discriminatory” measures when he announced fresh tariffs on Canada last month.
After a meeting with Greer that lasted around three hours on Thursday afternoon, LeBlanc said the two sides were “very close” to a final deal.
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“We’re very close, we continue to make progress,” LeBlanc told reporters.
A source with direct knowledge of the talks said the U.S. could cut steel and aluminum tariffs from 50 per cent to 25 per cent and auto tariffs from 25 per cent to 15 per cent.
Two sources also told Global News that tariff relief for Canada’s softwood lumber industry is also being discussed.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said it would “unacceptable” to have any sectoral tariffs on steel, aluminum, automobiles and lumber under a new trade deal.
Further tariffs would lead to the “de-industrialization of our economy” and see jobs in key sectors move south of the border, he said.
“Mr. Carney, keep your promise. Fight for Canada. Don’t take a bad deal. We expect a good deal, like you promised,” Poilievre said.
How premiers reacted
Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew said he was “skeptical” of a good faith trade deal with Trump.
“(We could have) the best deal in the world today. (If) things go off the rail in Iran for him next month, who is to say he’s not going to try and whack us on the head again?” Kinew said in a radio interview with 680 CJOB in Winnipeg.
680 CJOB is owned by Corus Entertainment, which is the parent company of Global News.
Kinew said he was not announcing a return of U.S. alcohol to Manitoba’s shelves on Thursday.
“The prime minister very clearly asked us to put the booze back. He very clearly wants this. He’s like, you know, just blame me, put this on me,” he said.
“We reserve the right to take it back off again, because we know that this guy is very erratic, the American president. And he may go back on his word, as he’s done countless times,” he added.
Kinew said some sectoral tariffs are likely to stay, despite a new trade agreement.
Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston told reporters after the meeting that Carney’s request “came directly out of the negotiating table.”
“We’ll work through that process,” he said, adding that it is something he would be willing to do “pending a final deal.”
While British Columbia Premier David Eby called for a “Team Canada” approach on Wednesday, he did not address the issue of bringing alcohol back on the shelves.
Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe said he looks forward to this deal being finalized.
“Any deal that eliminates and reduces tariffs is a good deal for Canada and Saskatchewan,” Moe said.
–With files from Global’s Mackenzie Gray
@ John Hughes – Also from CBC reporting. US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has been unsatisfied with the trade deal on the table for Canada.
From CBC reporting. Doing Ford is not impressed so far with Mark Carney and the trade negotiations. Carney will sell out Canada and line his own pocket.
@Rory. Send us a link to prove your outlandish claims. We are totally laughing at you. Liberals must be desperate
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They are fake americans. The fake JD VANCE in particular. He did send me so called pictures of the masters shwick and I knew they were fake, way to big for the master.
Again people saying what a great deal Carney has gotten. Well they must be psychic because only the people at the table know the deal terms. Talk about misinformation on a grand scale
Reportedly PM Burnham from the UK, Ursula von der Leyen from the EU, and Claudia Sheinbaum from Mexico have called Carney to ask how he got a fantastic deal from the US.
Carney tried to be a tough guy in the latest round of negotiations but quickly folded like a cheap suit. Carney is a bark and no bite
Glad to see the details of the deal which are better than what UK and Europe received. Poilievre and his MAGA supporters are bleating as usual.
Stars and Stripes is a fake american. I know because I asked the master and he told so. Besides that, I know for a fact because he hasn’t sent me any pictures of the masters shwick.
I find it amusing that a cradle robbing drama teacher managed to get a better deal with trump than a two time central banker with his fingers in a lot of corporate pies.
Trump and Greer have done an amazing job. Canada must give major concessions or be hit with a sweeping 50% tariff. Carneys plan to try to want till the US Midterms was a grave mistake.
Wab Kinew (NDP Manioba Premier) totally torched Mark Carney regarding that Carney is caving to Trump. Wab said Carney basically got on his knees begging to get the alcohol put back on the shelves. This is very weak leadership by Carney
By the way, Moe is a mo.
“Looks like the 18% of Canadians who support Poilievre are here badmouthing the deal without knowing the details therein. They speak in forked tongues out of both sides of their mouth!”
And you know the details? You speak in forked tongue out of both sides of your mouth!”
Enzo at 4:03 pm
Getting rid of the carbon tax etc were initiatives completely born within the liberal party. Paperboy Poilievre did not.
Lol…what? The party itself decided on their own to cancel a tax that they themselves created back when special economic advisor Carney was a champion of “carbon pricing?
Wow. Amazing.
And Pierre’s whole slogan of Axe the Tax was about something else I guess.
Carney is in quite a spot here. It will be very interesting to see what comes of this.
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The details of the deal will be announced in the middle of the night and buried by the media by 10:00 tomorrow morning.
@Anonymous. Getting rid of the carbon tax etc were initiatives completely born within the liberal party. Paperboy Poilievre did not.
Nice to see Poilievre and his party are doing my job for me!
If Pierre is so bad why did Carney run a nomination campaign that stole several initiatives from him?
Ending the carbon tax, scrapping the proposed increase in capital gains, and eliminating the GST on all homes up to $1 million for first-time home buyers, just to name a few.
Love the PP comments. Pure deflection by Elbows Up Liberals. PP is not involved nor been invited by Carney to do so. This will be Carneys success or failure depending on the outcome of the deal.
Who is this Poilievre that people are talking about?
Carney, elbows up, knees down as he spit shines Trump tower. LOL
Everyone here is absolutely certain about the quality of a deal that is unknown.
The initial deadline came out of Trump’s behind. He reached in again and found 3 more days. If necessary he can find the weekend in there too.
Wab Kinew has stated Carney was on his knees begging for the Premiers to take of the alcohol ban. How is this leadership? Carney is weak and spineless and has flip flopped regarding Elbows Up
@Steve Harper. Correct PP has not been invited to the table by Carney. Team Canada for Carney is just himself and other Liberal partisans. So if things go sideways , Carney can’t blame PP, only himself as PP wasn’t involved.
Vance has stated Carney folded like a cheap suit during the negotiations and USA got major concessions from Canada with nothing in return accept the avoidance on the new tariffs
JD Vance: Pierre Poilievre is a non entity in trade talks. Wiser words have not been spoken by Vance or Trump since they took office.
Poilievre folded under pressure from Vance to his travelling MP’s and is now badmouthing the deal to cause even more divisiveness. Can’t believe it.
The Poilievre supporters can’t even form sentences properly. They must drool on their bibs when they talk!
Carney has completely folded and sold out Canada He promised a trade deal July 31, 2025 and because of his delay and new tariffs announced Carney have up any advantage Canada had. What happened to Elbows Up.
An excellent deal and the US caved on reducing tariffs. Only Poilievre and his Trumpian supporters oppose the deal.
I see the LPC cultists are projecting again…🙄
The Conservative bots are again today. Has Lethbridge Liberace ever had an actual solution to the preconceived Conservative problems they see with the government He just keeps saying that’s unacceptable but, offers nothing else.
We won again. The Clownservatives, just keep getting more desperate, you lost accept it.
Thank Mr Carney, the best PM we have ever had.
@aden holding You are just pissing people off by advertising in the comments section. Take your begging elsewhere and leave the comments for real Canadians to express their views.
Just like any bad news this will be dropped when everyone is thinking about their weekend and not what is happening in politics and when the main stream news can hide the details in a byline and swear later that they reported it. “In politics nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.” President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Can we please just try Eby, Kinew and Frechette for treason, hang them and get on with things?
Big waste of time ! Two weeks from now Trump will smell smoke or remember some little irritant and hit us with additional taffifs again! Deals don’t mean anything to Trump except that he made his opponent bend! Its just amusement for him!
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wow so the deal is worse then we would have got if we did nothing in the beginning. ha ha ha. got we are a joke elbows up
Racing to meet an arbitrary deadline that can easily be extended for another three(?) days.
Ooooh the suspense!
Suckers.
Who granted politicians the authority to strip away my right to buy my favorite American liquor? On what legal basis did they ban the importation and sale of my preferred drink?
With all the ‘bottoms up’ premiers, the country is lost. Alberta out!
Where is “Captain Canada” Doug Ford. The guy that acts like a belligerent child and tried the sell Alberta down the river. Will he be putting alcohol back on the shelves.
Waiting to the very last minute to tell Canadians what the deal consists of. Everyone knows that the government always gives bad news late on Friday because people don’t pay as much interest to the news because of the weekend. But the facts will come out eventually
Way too much stubberness with these people , they all seem to forget who they are working for and getting a big paycheck. Can we fire the whloe lot ???
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It is obvious Greer and Trump outmatch Leblanc and Carney. Vance even mocked Carney as Carney tried to act tough but then quickly conceded when the pressure was put to him. Carney is a poor negotiator.
Shelby i am not criticizing the deal since its all so covert and no one, including you, knows anything about it.
I am criticizing the delays that led us to this. The antagonizing behavior and statements made by Carney towards the crybaby in the oval office, when the rest of the world chose to stay quiet and work behind the scenes and get their deals done. I am criticizing all this while reading reports that 2024 saw a record number of Canadians emigrate from Canada, and the following year that that record was broken again.
Wab Kinew was caught on video criticizing Carney. I guess Carney got on his knees and begged the Premiers to put alcohol back on the shelves. This isn’t a leader but a coward that is now bowing to Trump.
Carney a day late and many dollars short this time. He promised to have a deal done by July 31, 2025. He totally dropped the ball.
Looks like the 18% of Canadians who support Poilievre are here badmouthing the deal without knowing the details therein. They speak in forked tongues out of both sides of their mouth!
It’s the girl
Where was this urgency in Jan 2025? We needed federal ministers as negotiators in Jan 2025 to speak to the incoming Trump administration. Instead we had a prorogued parliament due to Trudeau’s last minute attempt to save the LPC. The following months those ministers were out campaigning in their ridings. It was left to the Federation of Premiers led by Doug Ford to fill the vacuum. Meanwhile a record-breaking 120,640 Canadian citizens and permanent residents permanently left the country over the course of 2025. Breaking 2024’s record number. Those were good people who Justin and Carney abandoned during the Lost Liberal Decade. Forty percent of manufacturers are actively considering or have moved production to the USA, as per a July 2026 survey by KPMG. Its too late for many of them to change plans. Algonquin Power just last week announced a move from Oakville to Chicago, to have better access to capital, ie we are too broke up here for them to find adequate capital.
Too little too late.
Maybe some of the liberal poster who keep posting that Canada got a really good deal can post the details so we all can see what we gave up and what we got in return?
Until than you are just waving you pom poms
It’s been reported the European Union and the UK are reaching out to Canada to ask how we got such a good deal.
Carney must be getting his big black bold marker ready so he can imitate Trump by signing another fake executive order.
Liberals, (The Broken Light Bulb Club) love it