Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney declared that the close, postwar alliance between the U.S. and his country is finished—vowing to fight the impending President Donald Trump’s tariffs.
In an address to reporters in Ottawa on Thursday, Carney offered a blunt rebuke to the Trump administration as it prepares to slap a 25 percent tariff on foreign car imports — a move the prime minister said won’t go unanswered.
“The old relationship we had with the United States, based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military co-operations, is over,” Carney said.
He continued: “What exactly the United States does next is unclear. But what is clear is that we, as Canadians, have agency. We have power. We are masters in our own home. We can control our destiny. We can give ourselves much more than any foreign government, including the United States, can ever take away.”
He added: “We can deal with this …