Carney welcomes U.S. court decision striking down parts of Trump’s tariffs agenda [Video]

Prime Minister Mark Carney said Thursday he welcomed a U.S. court decision that struck down parts of Donald Trump’s tariffs regime, with judges saying the president overstepped his constitutional authority by imposing sweeping levies on global goods.

Carney said the court’s findings are “consistent with Canada’s long-standing position” that Trump’s tariffs are “unlawful as well as unjustified.”

But Carney warned that this court decision nullifies only some of Trump’s Canadian-focused tariffs — the border security ones imposed to apparently spur a crackdown on drugs and migrants are now in jeopardy — but other U.S. tariffs on Canadian steel, aluminum and autos are unaffected by this particular judgment.

Carney said those remaining levies — called “Section 232” tariffs because of the section of the trade law used to impose them on “national security” grounds — are also “unjustified,” and there’s a risk Trump could use that section to target other “strategic sectors” in the …