PM Mark Carney delivered an address focused on trade at Toronto\u2019s Global Progress Action Summit. Jeremie Charron reports. <\/p>\n
Speaking to a room of progressive policy experts in Toronto Saturday, Prime Minister Mark Carney offered some insight into what Canada has offered up ahead of an official review of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) this summer.<\/p>\n
\u201cCanada remains open to deeper integration,\u201d said Carney, whose government has so far signaled it is in no rush to negotiate a new deal.<\/p>\n
\u201cLike Mexico, Canada remains open to deeper integration, including options for fortress North America in (certain) sectors. And to be clear, those offers are on the table,\u201d said the prime minister.<\/p>\n
Carney made the remarks during his speech at the Global Progress Action Summit, where trade, tariffs and a changed relationship with the U.S. were among the key talking points.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need to build new trade relationships in order to move from reliance to resilience,\u201d the prime minister said.<\/p>\n
The Carney government has been clear about building new relationships with countries around the world, no matter the outcome of CUSMA renegotiations.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur goal is also to double our non-U.S. exports and so you see the prime minister going around and signing new trade deals across the world,\u201d said Industry Minister M\u00e9lanie Joly, who spoke on a panel at Saturday\u2019s event.<\/p>\n
Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand echoed that sentiment in remarks following her panel discussion.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the moment where countries around the world are looking to Canada for our continued leadership,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Progressive lawmakers from around the world attended the summit, including the former U.S. secretary of transportation who offered his view of the current administration\u2019s trade policies.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn practice America first has really meant America alone,\u201d said Peter Buttigieg.<\/p>\n
\u201c(It\u2019s been) a process of alienating friends and poking allies in the eye and dismantling some of the partnerships and friendships that in fact helped keep America in first place, which I think is the real aspiration of the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PM Mark Carney delivered an address focused on trade at Toronto\u2019s Global Progress Action Summit. Jeremie Charron reports.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[712,45,49,48],"class_list":["post-659870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-apple-news","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659870","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=659870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}