{"id":645230,"date":"2026-05-03T14:46:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T14:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/645230\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T14:46:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T14:46:19","slug":"carney-should-state-what-leverage-canada-has-in-trade-talks-winnipeg-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/645230\/","title":{"rendered":"Carney should state what \u2018leverage\u2019 Canada has in trade talks \u2013 Winnipeg Free Press"},"content":{"rendered":"

TORONTO \u2013 Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says Prime Minister Mark Carney should tell Canadians what leverage the country has over the United States in coming trade negotiations.<\/p>\n

In an interview with The Canadian Press on Friday, Carney rejected the characterization of energy and critical minerals as \u201cleverage\u201d in negotiations to renew the Canada-United States-Mexico trade agreement.<\/p>\n

But Poilievre says Carney should lay out exactly what leverage Ottawa has and what demands the prime minister will make, as Canada seeks to secure an end to tariffs and a renewal of the trade deal.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFile photo — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre participates in a media availability outside West Block on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, on Wednesday, April 29, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Justin Tang<\/p>\n

Carney says he simply views these sectors as future trade opportunities with the United States \u2014 or with other trading partners.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the week, United States Trade Representative Jamieson Greer warned a group of Canadian politicians that Ottawa shouldn\u2019t try to use energy as leverage in the trade talks.<\/p>\n

Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson said about a week ago that Canada\u2019s energy and natural resources are \u201cCanada\u2019s strongest cards\u201d in renegotiating the trade deal.<\/p>\n

This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 3, 2026.<\/p>\n

\u2014 With files from Kyle Duggan in Ottawa and Kathryn Mannie in Toronto<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2013 Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says Prime Minister Mark Carney should tell Canadians what leverage the country…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-645230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645230","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=645230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}