THE EREA OF deep ties between Canada and the United States “is over,” new prime minister Mark Carney has said, after US president Donald Trump announced steep auto tariffs.
Carney said that Canada’s “retaliatory” response to Trump will have “maximum impact” in the United States, with the former Bank of England governor promising the overall stance is “to fight, is to protect, is to build” in an address yesterday.
Trump’s planned 25 percent levy on vehicle imports to the United States is to come into force next week and could be devastating for a Canadian auto industry that supports an estimated 500,000 jobs.
After Trump’s announcement, Carney paused his campaign ahead of Canada’s 28 April election to return to Ottawa for a meeting of cabinet members working on tactics in the trade war with the United States.
He called Trump’s auto tariffs “unjustified,” and said they were in breach of …