Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc dismissed the idea that Canada could apologize to the U.S. in the coming weeks as the trade war stretches on, as President Donald Trump has said he expects.
Trump made the comments from the Oval Office on Monday while speaking to reporters after being asked how recent trade developments between Canada and the U.S. will end, and after multiple rounds of U.S. tariffs and Canada’s counter-tariff measures.
“They’re going to come in and they’re going to say, ‘sir we are sorry,'” Trump said in response.
The comments also came hours before a U.S. import ban went into effect Tuesday, which blocked all Canadian alcohol, as well as some dairy products and motorcycles from entering the U.S.
LeBlanc spoke at an event in New Brunswick Tuesday hours after that ban went into effect, and was asked by reporters if Canada would indeed apologize to the U.S., as Trump suggested.
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“I’m not thinking that the government of Canada is going to apologize for standing up for Canadian workers, Canadian businesses, defending our economy,” LeBlanc said.
“The American government decided to apply a series of tariffs that violated a free-trade agreement that this administration signed six years ago.”
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Global News at 6 Toronto: June 30, 2026
The U.S. import ban on some Canadian goods is the latest escalation in Trump’s trade war with Canada.
It follows a wave of updated 50 per cent U.S. tariffs on hundreds of Canadian goods on Sept. 15, which were in response to Canada’s counter-tariff measures enacted on Sept. 8. Those counter-tariffs were Canada’s “dollar-for-dollar” response to Trump’s first round of 50 per cent tariffs launched on Aug. 22.
Those escalations came after Prime Minister Mark Carney pulled his trade negotiators out of Washington, and said that Canada was “walking away from a bad deal.”
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There have been no formal trade negotiations since, but LeBlanc said Tuesday that “we are having conversations with our American counterparts.”
“We’re not negotiating detailed text as we were five, six weeks ago, but we remain in contact with them,” said LeBlanc.
“If the prime minister concludes at some point that there’s a deal possible that protects the sovereignty of our country, that would be in the economic interests of the country, then obviously we would be in a position to have that conversation.”
“But for the moment, we’re focusing on what we can control in Canada.”
Earlier on Tuesday, Trump’s senior council for trade and manufacturing, Peter Navarro, said his message for Canadian lobbyists in the United States is: “get the h— out of our country!”
The comments were made at a conference appearance, when Navarro criticized Canada’s attempts to lobby in the Washington – an expression sometimes referred to as “K Street.”
“Canada, economically, is like a row boat. We’re an aircraft carrier, how’s that going to end? Any Canadians here? Please, if you’re on K Street, get the h— out of our country,” said Navarro.
Canada has absolutely nothing to apologize for. There is a reason people in the US are apologizing to Canadians…they know what tyrant Trump is doing to us and the world. They know how they are suffering day in and day out with gas prices, food prices and no health care while Trump, his family and elite friends are making billions off the backs of hard working Americans. Trump should be apologizing to his people for screwing them and world countries with his insane tariffs. We know why he loves the uneducated who follow him like lambs to the slaughter.
The Carney Liberals should come crawling on their knees to Canadians apologizing for the absolute screwup they have made of our economy and Canadians’ lives by not getting a deal done with Trump as was promised by Carney. They are a bunch of losers which is why they all have a capital “L” on their forehead. It doesn’t identify them as Liberal it identifies them as LOSERS.
They won’t apologize, instead they will be on all fours taking it up the a$$
Yes, it’s true, all Liberals are dickless.
No, it will just apologize for Liberals.
To everyone who is badmouthing Canada.🖕. Whether dumb Canadians or bots from USA and elsewhere. Pis* off FcKrS.
Canada has FULL dependancy on US and Immigrant.. if they ask to sleep CA will sleep.. there are no Locals left in Canada all coming outside and settling and lobbying in there canada.. soon canada will be doomed… go check reality every business / shop / schools 78% are outsiders.. where the canadians.. they are slaves to these outsiders now… haah.
invite more immigrants.. they will sit on your head..
fight with US he will get all your jobs and money market..
CA has nothing inbuilt as such. .. soon country will collaps its better to have 51st state in usa.
The US political system thrives on lobbyists. They’re paid milions to warp laws and policy to make large corporations billions.
Canada will never bow to trump. Building a better trade network is the only way forward
Canada has become such an entitled, ignorant, snotty, angry, virtue-signalling s*#t-hole. When a country has to keep telling the world how “polite” and “friendly” they are, it isn’t true.
@aardvark, keep letting carnhole and his gang keep sh*tting in your mouth you dumb POS
in honor of reconciliation day , Carney works on a partnership with The European Union to re creating colonization of treaty lands to the fullest existent ,and replace them with east Indians as first natives chiefs try to block the Democracy of Alberta separation..
I smile at the analogy of a rowboat and an aircraft carrier. The carrier may be a lot bigger but it hasn’t figured out yet that it’s going the wrong direction. Whenever it does figure that out it’s too big and clumsy to turn around. November 3rd isn’t very far away anymore.
Trump broke the CUSMA agreement so Canada can sit on higher moral ground forever.
So what if Carney broke the trade agreement first by putting reciprocal tariffs on CUSMA protected items over a year ago, then quietly cancelled them just before the election without telling anyone.
We were attacked first so that doesn’t count.
Trump broke CUSMA, not Carney.
St:
Please demonstrate how the Liberals have killed Canada.
Extra marks if you can show your work.
I’ll wait.
“Get the hell out of our country…” No problem, dude…
Trump is delusional if he thinks Canadians are going to apologize to him…
Today’s Liberal word…”Bully.” I’m still waiting for the trade details that Carney walked away from. Who was really trying to be a bully? Maybe one day we can learn the details of this EU cr@p also. Liberals are all onboard without knowing anything. Carney won’t say anything about either because Liberals are to stupid to understand. Conservatives are too smart and they will understand.
Canada doesn’t owe Trump an apology.
However liberal voters do owe Canadians an apology.
You clowns killed Canada.
American and Russian trolls are out in force again today. You can smell their pathetic desperation through the screen as they whine and spread their inane nonsense about Carney and the Liberals. Such a bunch of losers!!!
Too all the liberal bashers, get a proper leader than PP, and maybe the government will change. Lol
Oh f*ck you LeRetard! YOU PUT US HERE! You and your ‘expertise’ in negotiation has doomed Canada. Not just Trump is the azzhole here! The whole frigging Liberal fascist squad is!
Venezuela years ago stopped trade with the USA. They also claimed that the USA was the source of their problems. Their economy crashed, massive poverty and the only countries willing to trade with them were countries that could see their weaknesses and took advantage of Venezuela. You say that won’t happen in Canada? Why not, Canadians are being manipulated by the government and media, creating a frenzy of hatred against the USA, Canada is following the same path as Venezuela.
You don’t hate Canada enough
Liberals wont apologize to Canadians either.
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I’m not thinking that the government of Canada is going to apologize for standing up for Canadian workers, Canadian businesses, defending our economy,” LeBlanc said. If your standing up , why are they shutting down, or moving to the US. You don’t turn your back on the best alliance you ever had.
Nothing To apologize for but Trump should be apologizing and making amends to Canada & Canadians!!
Move Along Traitors, 106,000 Canadians left in 2024, and 120,000 in 2025.
Keep clapping
Trudeau and Carney (and Leblanc) ran Canada into the ditch will consumer carbon taxes and green fantasies like EV battery plants that won’t ever be completed. Total nonsense.
The only traitors are you brain-dead libscum POS reetards!
Look at all these Maple MAGA traitors wriggling around here. Since you hate your own country so much, here’s an easy solution: get out and move permanently down south so you can kiss that orange ped’s moon you love so much all day, every day.
Republican’s can’t be trusted. Except to pull out of a deal they themselves made!
not going to apologize but will get out the knee pads and start giving head for the european union and toss Canada under the bus for it
Hey lt.dan , we have laws against your sick behavior, and medication to protect society from your disease by turning your brain into cottage Cheese. We love the Latinos, smart and hard working, unlike yourself. Your mother, who was probably your sister too, can have a retroactive abortion. It’s never too late.
The rational need to be elevated by media as the irrational have shown they are more than capable of getting their point across without any assistance or concern for what is needed vs wanted.
Yes, we all want truth, justice if not peace, and yet all of us are willing to sacrifice at least a little of that for the promise of more than seems equitable.
We campaign for special treatment for one class while denouncing the special treatment of another class and justifying it as a defense mechanism rather than acknowledge the same sentiment true of those we campaign against.
We are all more alike than what makes us different. We are equal because of maths, not some political or social contrivance. Our equality is as true as gravity and as simple as light shining down on an object once covered by darkness.
Those that cast shadows on objects we see plainly, are not considering our point of view, nor our right to have one.
The EU economy is worth less and is costlier than the US.
Angola and Vietnam are not middle-powers.
Liberals are lying to you.
No, that doesn’t make me far-right.
Glad to see Trump moving all auto jobs to the USA. Meanwhile, Canada is going Elbows Up and crying like babies. Hilarious
From the country that just legalized sex with animals for FBI recruits.
this clown has got it backwards, your the a$$ kisser. pucker up bozo
Of course they won’t
Trump is the best thing to ever happen to the LPC
@Me September 29, 2026 at 5:28 pm
Other than this comment, you nailed it.
Nobody is going to bow to the orange pos
Anonymous
I will just sit here and point out that we still do not have constitutionally guaranteed free trade within Canada, right? September 29, 2026 at 8:08 pm
Section 121 of the Constitution Act, 1867 dictates that all articles of growth, produce, or manufacture from any province shall be admitted free into every other province.
YOU ARE COMPLETELY WRONG!
Yet these trade barriers exist , recently supported by Supreme Court decisions. We need to get rid of all trade barriers and the Supreme Courts Ultimate Authority, which they regularly abuse in my opinion
Leblanc was a Trudeau bootlicker for over 10 years.
@LT. dan 32nd Spokane spooks militia:
“canafa”?
Okay, LT. fan.
“…I will not bow down…”?
Are you quoting terrorist despots from Iran, you pusillanimous twit?
“Ben
September 29, 2026 at 7:19 pm
The US broke a trade agreement and imposed tariffs. I won’t bow down and apologize to a bully president and state. Vast majority of Canadians agree with this sentiment.”
I recall last year Carney said the Toronto Blue Jays went “Elbows Up” and played for Canada. A year later TBJ last in the AL East and Carney still has no deal that he promised over a year ago. Canada is a total joke.
As usual, it is more accurate to read the reverse of what Trump says. It is he who needs to apologize to Canadians.
Leblanc was a Trudeau minister who voted to put in the consumer carbon tax to Canadians essentially taking money out of their pockets.
TRUMP IS A LOUD MOUTH BULLY. IT WILL BOOMARANG. HE’S MAKING ENEMIES OUT OF MUCH NEEDED ALLIES WHILE ALLYTING HIMSELF WITH PAST ENEMIES. THEREASON. HE KNOWS HE CAN’T CHALLENGE AND WIN XI OR PUTIN.
Give the US a couple of one finger salutes for their disrespect and bullying
Canada is weak because of Carney/Trideau policies the last decade. Blaming Trump for everything wrong in Canada is disingenuous and not connected to any reality.
Trump is winding these liberal politicians up but like their supporters they are too dumb to figure that out !!!
Peter, the lion’s share of the population on earth stopped listening to the Trump Administration circus a long time ago and are just waiting out the dumpster fire you guys started and hoping there is something left of America to rebuild once you are gone. Unfortunately, it is going to take a century to repair the damage you clowns cause during your term. The sad part is that extraordinarily ignorant people dont know enough to understand they are not the smartest people in the room, but I assure you the rest of the room does.
LeBlanc: You should apologize to All Canadians for your failure to secure a trade agreement with the US
No Ben, Canadian Premiers did when they removed US alcohol from our shelves. It was and remains a provocation. And to think, the US asked us to reverse this policy, and we instead doubled down.
I know you think you are a compassionate person but supporting ideologies that make you think you are compassionate vs actually being compassionate, are two different things.
I will just sit here and point out that we still do not have constitutionally guaranteed free trade within Canada, right?
It is no small thing. It is the very reason the people that occupy what we now call provinces joined confederation and created Canada; not love of hockey, our dairy industry, maple syrup, poutine or political independence and democracy. It was because we knew with our land, it’s resources, and our people – we could become something better and something more than what we were.
Today, provinces are more interested in foreign markets than their own. Our provinces are so poorly managed, our municipalities fail to see value in buying Canadian and instead set out on trade missions alone when they could maybe at least work together if vying for the group discount on US made 2-way intercoms.
I was at a Municipal, Provincially run, Federally funded Hospital recently. The equipment was almost all foreign. Things as simple as creating a 2-way microphone/speaker, were US made.
I know why Canadian governments and businesses need to rely on US companies over Canadian companies when it comes to finding competitive solutions. Many do. Few are Liberal or left leaning.
Canada Post has been run aground with its weak captains. It costs money while losing more and more to the inefficiency it generates.
If inefficiency were a commodity, eh? They’d be rich.
Since the dawn of postal service, citizens purchased, maintained, and provided clear places to receive mail/deliveries.
Centuries later, due to a perversion of public discourse, we decide that making the government responsible for providing and maintaining a place for citizens to receive mail was somehow an efficiency.
A conservative government no less. A group of citizens that support smaller government, decided the government should do more.
Frankly, I believe that to have been an effort to sabotage the postal service causing it to lose even more money.
But boy that doesn’t explain why Liberals campaigned to stop the change only to implement the same policy years later.
“Ben
September 29, 2026 at 7:19 pm
The US broke a trade agreement and imposed tariffs. I won’t bow down and apologize to a bully president and state. Vast majority of Canadians agree with this sentiment.”
A GREAT response!
Canada is a sovereign country.
@Anonymous 722. Says the forever single man. Take good care of your dominant hand.
I must have missed the hallucination they are collectively experiencing.
Did anyone ask them to apologize?
You didn’t quote Trump because he didn’t actually say that, right?
He expects a deal to be made and so do all Canadian businesses, and employees that are not stupid.
If the simple act of working from home can hurt our economy and prosperity, why do liberals think losing the US market will not have the same impact and do they believe inflation requires an increase to tipping?
Canada got to send somebody down there that can make a deal not liberal.
You just need to stop being cunts. Everyone knows women can’t accept wrongdoing and apologize.
The US broke a trade agreement and imposed tariffs. I won’t bow down and apologize to a bully president and state. Vast majority of Canadians agree with this sentiment.
Liberals under Trudeau and Carney should apologize for their horrible governance the last decade. Canada is in a weakened position because of their policies and actions.
Metaphorically, Bullies get angry when they demand your lunch money and you say “no,” claiming that now you stole your lunch money from them, when it is rightly theirs. Tantrums often ensue. The thing is, “they did to us what we were already doing to them” isn’t the argument that some folks think it is. Trying to run a nation like a mob villain from some low-budget 1970s after-school special isn’t the “genius” move some think.
Our federal government is such an embarrassment.
@ spooks militia
just another gravy seal from meal team 6.
he will be the one standing at the back of the line, no guts to be up front
@ spooks militia, go back to scking your fellow dainty boy fruity azz militia members off
Put some lipstick and wig on leblank and start scking
Leblanc should apologize for breaking ethics rules in 2018 when he awarded a lucrative surf clam license to a close family friend.
Wow nothing but morons commenting here 😂😂😂
@LT. dan 32nd Spokane spooks militia
We don’t have a latino problem though.
We have Maga-moron problem
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Until canafa actually does something about their nasty filthy Latino problems we shouldn’t be doing any trade with them period!
Carney and this Liberal government should be apologizing to the Canadian people about the way they have handled this mess of these tariffs especially when they made an election promise that they would get a deal and nearly 2 years on we have more and higher tariffs. Total incompetence
Libs do nothing but antagonize. They need an external threat to keep the polls in their favour.
Other countries work behind the scense without acknowledging Trump personally.