{"id":501282,"date":"2026-02-26T17:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T17:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/501282\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T17:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T17:54:07","slug":"conservative-leader-pitches-vision-for-canada-u-s-relations-in-toronto-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/501282\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservative leader pitches vision for Canada-U.S. relations in Toronto speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA \u2014 Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is set to give a speech in Toronto today laying out his views on Canada&#8217;s relationship with the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Poilievre has been broadly criticized for failing to talk enough about U.S. President Donald Trump&#8217;s trade war and annexation threats during last spring&#8217;s election campaign.<\/p>\n<p>He has said repeatedly he believes Prime Minister Mark Carney needs to secure an agreement with the Trump administration that restores tariff-free trade \u2014 even though the president has insisted he&#8217;s not ending tariffs.<\/p>\n<p>During a recent speech to Conservative party faithful at the party&#8217;s convention in Calgary, Poilievre did not mention Trump at all.<\/p>\n<p>He did secure a strong endorsement from delegates in Calgary, who voted overwhelmingly to back his continued leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Poilievre is set to speak to a group of business leaders at the Economic Club of Canada today.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 26, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Ritchie, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA \u2014 Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is set to give a speech in Toronto today laying out his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-501282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501282","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=501282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}