{"id":198620,"date":"2025-10-08T22:46:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T22:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/198620\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T22:46:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T22:46:12","slug":"carney-faces-sustained-criticism-over-trump-meeting-in-fiery-question-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/198620\/","title":{"rendered":"Carney faces sustained criticism over Trump meeting in fiery Question Period"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Prime Minister Mark Carney has received mixed reviews for his trip to the White House.Blair Gable\/Reuters<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Mark Carney<\/a> faced sustained criticism from his rivals for a trip to Washington that didn\u2019t end with a new trade agreement, even as he told MPs deals are being negotiated for relief from U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum exports.<\/p>\n

Provincial premiers offered mixed reviews, with Ontario Premier Doug Ford in particular urging a more forceful approach as the trade dispute between the two countries drags on.<\/p>\n

For his part, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre<\/a> accused Mr. Carney of betraying Canadian workers by telling U.S. President Donald Trump<\/a> on Tuesday that Canada would make US$1-trillion worth of investments in the United States in the next five years if Canada gets the deal it expects. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe Prime Minister went pathetically to the White House to offer a trillion-dollar gift, bowing before the President in weakness,\u201d Mr. Poilievre said during a fiery Question Period Wednesday. He asked where deals were on softwood lumber and autos, both of which Mr. Trump\u2019s administration has tariffed heavily.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhere, in his platform, did he promise to give a trillion of our investment dollars to the Americans?\u201d<\/p>\n

Opinion: It\u2019s humiliating to kowtow to Trump. But what choice does Carney have?<\/a><\/p>\n

Opinion: Carney\u2019s better off without a big Trump trade deal. Just ask the Europeans<\/a><\/p>\n

Mr. Carney appeared to give a short sigh. He responded to Mr. Poilievre by saying that investment would come from the private sector \u2013 a phrase he put in air quotes. The answer drew loud cheers from the Liberal benches.<\/p>\n

He also said Canada already has the best deal \u2013 a reference to the U.S.-Mexico-Canada free trade agreement \u2013 and that a better one is coming. <\/p>\n

Mr. Carney\u2019s government attempted to tamp down expectations ahead of his Washington trip, where he and Mr. Trump were expected to discuss the punitive tariffs the White House has imposed on exports from Canada and much of the rest of the world. Mr. Carney did not win any new relief from those levies, though Mr. Trump did hint during Tuesday\u2019s visit that a deal was possible.<\/p>\n

Bloc Quebecois Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet called the trip nothing but an opportunity for nice words. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe great negotiator is again coming back into the country, the tail between his legs. When will he stun us? When will he impress us?\u201d Mr. Blanchet said, speaking in French. <\/p>\n

Mr. Carney framed the meeting in positive terms. <\/p>\n

\u201cI am happy that the U.S. President and I had a meeting of the minds about a deal for the steel, aluminum and energy sectors,\u201d Mr. Carney said in French.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is why our teams are working on just such a deal as we speak.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Toronto on Wednesday, at the BMO Eurasia US-Canada Summit, Ontario Premier Doug Ford said that Canada should retaliate if Mr. Carney cannot secure tariff relief from Mr. Trump. <\/p>\n

He appeared particularly incensed by Mr. Trump\u2019s repeated comments during the Oval Office meeting with Mr. Carney that the U.S. does not want to buy cars from Canada. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou aren\u2019t going to annihilate our steel sector. You aren\u2019t going to annihilate manufacturing in Ontario. And you sure the heck aren\u2019t going to annihilate the auto sector,\u201d Mr. Ford said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we can\u2019t get a deal, we have to hit him back twice as hard.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ontario Premier Doug Ford says that if Prime Minister Mark Carney can\u2019t reach a deal to end the U.S. tariffs, Ottawa should start hitting back hard with retaliatory measures.<\/p>\n

The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

He said that Ontario would not put U.S. alcohol back on Liquor Control Board of Ontario shelves \u201cuntil we get a deal.\u201d And he said that Canada should cut off exports of critical minerals to the U.S. if Mr. Trump persists in trying to cripple the Canadian auto sector and other key industries.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf he wants to destroy our auto sector and destroy our steel sector and for Quebec the aluminum sector \u2013 there won\u2019t be a grain of critical minerals going south of the border. There won\u2019t be one ounce of energy coming from Ontario.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith took a more positive view of the meeting between Mr. Carney and Mr. Trump, lauding the Prime Minister\u2019s more conciliatory tone and his focus on the U.S.-Canada energy relationship. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I have told Prime Minister Carney when he came in is, stop threatening to sell the U.S. less energy, and let\u2019s promise to sell them more. Because I think that\u2019s the right pathway to a solution. And that seems to be the nature of the conversation,\u201d she said at the BMO conference.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think even the Prime Minister was framing yesterday as more of a social visit, trying to downplay expectations,\u201d she added. \u201cBut that\u2019s good. We should be cheering the Prime Minister on. We want him to have a good personal relationship. We want him to be able to stay at one of the presidential residences when he goes down there. We want them to have private dinners and conversations together. That is how deals get made with this particular president.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Mark Carney told Mr. Trump that Canada would make an estimated $1-trillion worth of investments in the United States in the next five years, if Canada gets the ‘deal we expect to get’ from the U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Prime Minister Mark Carney has received mixed reviews for his trip to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44,714],"class_list":{"0":"post-198620","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}