{"id":408831,"date":"2026-01-14T14:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T14:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/408831\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T14:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T14:41:08","slug":"can-canada-trust-cusma-when-trump-says-its-irrelevant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/408831\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Canada trust CUSMA when Trump says it\u2019s \u2018irrelevant\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"EN-US\" paraeid=\"{8dde84f8-c0dc-474c-9541-5b2ff28d6523}{44}\" paraid=\"1737892602\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">A spokesperson for Canada-US Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc said he will \u201csoon begin discussions\u201d with his US and Mexican counterparts.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" paraeid=\"{8dde84f8-c0dc-474c-9541-5b2ff28d6523}{69}\" paraid=\"1757974709\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">He is meeting this week with key sectors and labour unions to shape Canada\u2019s position and stressed that workers\u2019 and businesses\u2019 interests will be \u201cfront and centre,\u201d CBC News reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" paraeid=\"{8dde84f8-c0dc-474c-9541-5b2ff28d6523}{33}\" paraid=\"370357764\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Ontario\u2019s trade representative in Washington, David Paterson, told CTV that Trump\u2019s tough talk fits the early stage of negotiations, saying it is \u201cfairly common\u201d for a president to start from \u201ca position of stated dominance.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" paraeid=\"{4eb949f6-0ffa-433d-baf1-3a4cc18cf07c}{58}\" paraid=\"1298459239\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Some see Trump\u2019s stance as another warning shot about overreliance on a single market.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" paraeid=\"{8dde84f8-c0dc-474c-9541-5b2ff28d6523}{89}\" paraid=\"1973287807\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Amanda Alvaro, a former Liberal communications strategist, told CBC\u2019s Power &amp; Politics that \u201cnobody can predict what will happen with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2026\/01\/13\/us\/trump-news\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Trump<\/a>\u201d or with the renegotiation of CUSMA and argued that Canada should use this moment to broaden its trading relationships beyond the\u00a0US\u00a0border.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A spokesperson for Canada-US Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc said he will \u201csoon begin discussions\u201d with his US and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[34716,49,48,28601,44,3277],"class_list":["post-408831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-auto-sector","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cusma","tag-news","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408831","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=408831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}