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Funny, whenever I hear the USA comment on something whether it’s Hoekstra or Grierson, I feel like I’m back in high school. Please, Trump said from day one he wanted to cancel CUSMA, nothing to do with the Chinese. We were smart to at least lay the groundwork for a better trade situation as working with the USA feels like you’re bartering with beach vendors in Mexico.
Trump uses ANY excuse to bully countries into doing what he wants them to do. He only deals with countries who are corrupt like he is, if he personally doesn’t benefit he doesn’t want to do business.
carney and the libs think they are wearing the pants here? We are going to get spanked. Do any of the idiots below know the stats on our trade with the US versus Luxemburg? But lets keep poisoning the well, and all cry elbow up…
Yawn. Trump is seeking concessions from Canada in the CUSMA negotiations so he can brag about getting “the deal of the Century”. This is a flimsy excuse. Canada’s trade with China is far less than the US / China trade volumes. He makes stuff up. The sooner he is gone the better.
The amount of delusional libs in the chat is wild to say the least. Yes please more of the same stuff we have had for the last 11 years please… good grief.
Trudeau had admiration for China. Then the CCP started helping the Liberals rig elections in 2015 and that relationship has continued since. None of this is surprising. 🤦♂️
Canada is doing the right thing by finding new trading partners,if the Americans are worried they should keep an eye on US importers and make sure they don’t import Chinese stuff through Canada.Keep up the good work Canada keep finding new markets.
Part of that rapprochement included an agreement for Beijing, signed in January, to drop tariffs on agricultural goods in exchange…
You need to insert the word “temporarily” between to and drop…big difference
Sorry, but Canada was sold to the CCP shortly after the 2015 federal election. Alberta out!
While it was alluded to there was little mention of the fact that it was the US tariff policy that led Canada to seek an expanded relationship with China, up until then Canada had supported the US position on China trade, but then you are an Amerikkkan owned media company.
China is Americas biggest trading partner. I’ll just leave this here… 👀
What is the difference when the moron Trump who also went to China along with American businesses leaders trying to make trade deals with China? The US under Trump is not a good a trade partner f
or Canada. No negotiation until he is gone and an adult is in place.
They pushed us to look for other countries to trade with and when we did, they cry.
@S Armstrong – should we instead cheer for our own immoral financial bankruptcy?
Americans don’t need our Canadian products,so what’s the problem
The cognitive dissonance in comments is off the charts. How do people keep cheering for their own moral financial bankruptcy? And you think the US is the master class in the art of gaslighting? You are livung testimony against that fact.
US is the friend you have that tells you you can’t be friends with anyone else and then steals your lunch money.
I agree with his statement
Good things will not come from being friendly to the CCP
They drive into China’s arms, then blame us for doing so. The lies and hypocrisy are too much. Please get rid of this Trump admin.
The US can take care of their own border. This is an attempt to pass blame for their decision
Does everyone in this US administration just blatantly gaslight people all the time? Just like the fentanyl crossing the border emergency tariff thing.
If you think we will find a trading partner as big as the US, grow up. You reap what you sow.
Way to go Elbozos!
What’s good for the goose is good for the gander. Without Chinese imports 99% of Americans would be dirt poor. Get over it .
Wasn’t Mark Carney called the “Trump Whisperer? Lmao
More like Brookfield con artist!
It’s almost like the people who wrote the agreement understood what a lunatic Trump is and purposefully made the withdrawal period longer than a President’s possible tenure so that successor could reverse course.
I think it is hilarious that the US is worried about Canada doing trade with China when the US is China’s 2nd biggest trading partner!
I think that the US is scared that Canada will drop the US as a major trading partner for a relationship with China…
This entire charade is the work of the conservatives, who all align with Trump. Every conservative voter is a threat to our democracy. Carney was the advisor to Trudeau and this saved us during an economic downturn that could have been a second Great Depression. Carney is our only hope of adverting a crisis and the disintegration of our society. It is imperative that we sign a deal with China, our economy and security depends on it! I am full of nonsense and have no idea what I’m talking about.
What a joke, China trades with over 76% of the world. The IS trades with China just as much as Canada. China is a trade partner and that’s it. Personally I find them less a risk than the US under the current administration
Carney is prepared to risk 80% of our trade for just 8%. He is deliberately risking our biggest trading partnership with the USA for a mere pittance of 8% trade with the Chinese. Only a fool, or a traitor, throws away his main means of trade just to cowtow to the communist Chinese.
Marc Carney 2 months before elected said China is our greatest national security threat and that they are interfering with our elections.
Now he’s prime minister and announces they’ll be our closest partner.
Elbows up.
More smokescreens from the US.
They stole the election to get Carney in charge and look at what an epic unmitigated disaster he is.
Incontinentia and Roy, you guys are clowns in the same circus.
I think we are all exhausted listening to a 9 time bankruptcie, 2 time impeached and now a criminal sex offender, trying to push his neighbours into negotiating some thing most countries refuse to even get involved with. TRUMP wants paid for Gordie Howe bridge when 1/2 was given to USA. Those jerk has to go, he is officially a sex offender.
@Elbows Up
So you support Alberta Independence, then? Because the rest of Canada is pounding us against our will.
LeBlanc says we are a “stable, reliable, and trusted trading partner”. I think the US disagrees, and I don’t think I blame them.
@ elbows up I agree with you.
Along with all our other 5 Eyes allies
Trump doesn’t want us dealing with China because any reduction in trade with the US also reduces his ability to try to control us. We must reduce our dependence on the US and stop thinking of them as “friends.” Friends don’t bend friends over a barrel and do unspeakable things to their bottoms.
Roy you are a moron!!!
Welll done Carney & Eby let’s bite the hand that feeds us !!! Complete incompetence from both of them resign now and give Canada a chance to correct things. Big High five to all those
L I b t a r d s out there that voted for this.
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The United States’ top trade official is pointing to Canada’s deepening economic ties with China as one of the reasons Washington is refusing to renew the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement on free trade (CUSMA) in its current form.
Speaking to Global News on Thursday, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said the White House is concerned Beijing could use Canada as a back door into the American market.
“What I don’t want is a situation where Canada is bringing in a lot of Chinese investment and Chinese cars and sending them into America,” said Greer in Washington, D.C. “That is actually totally at odds with what we’re trying to do.”
His comments come a day after the Trump administration declined to renew the trilateral pact with Canada and Mexico for a new 16-year term over what the U.S. calls “shortcomings” and “trade deficits.” Mexico and Canada both publicly pushed for a renewal.
The agreement covers roughly $2.5 trillion in trade annually. U.S. President Donald Trump negotiated the deal himself during his first term, calling it one of the fairest and most balanced of its kind at the time.
Wednesday’s decision does not kill CUSMA — rather, it triggers a process of annual reviews until its possible expiration in 2036.
Tariff-free access remains for most Canadian exports, and the pact can still be renewed for 16 years at any time over the next decade.
After a virtual meeting Wednesday with Greer and Mexico’s Minister of Economy Marcelo Ebrard, Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc said he “reaffirmed Canada’s unwavering support for the CUSMA and its renewal.”
“At a time of global economic uncertainty, Canada is a stable, reliable and trusted partner,” added LeBlanc in a statement.
Ever since the Trump administration launched its trade war against Canada over a year ago — including punishing tariffs on sectors like autos, steel, aluminum and lumber — Ottawa has tried to diversify markets and reduce reliance on the U.S.
As part of that effort, the Carney government has forged closer ties with China, after years of frosty relations.
Part of that rapprochement included an agreement for Beijing, signed in January, to drop tariffs on agricultural goods in exchange for Canada to allow 49,000 Chinese-made electric vehicles into the Canadian market. The first vehicle shipments began arriving in Canada in May.
Last month, Prime Minister Mark Carney was caught on a hot mic at the G7 Summit in France trying to reassure Trump that those vehicles would only account for three per cent of Canada’s auto market.
International trade lawyer John Boscariol says the U.S. is pushing “very hard” on tightening “rules of origin” under CUSMA, particularly as it relates to China. Those rules ensure a certain proportion of North American-made components in goods that are traded within the continent tariff-free.
“The U.S. wants to make sure that there are provisions (in a future agreement) that ensure that China can’t use Mexico or Canada as a back door to the U.S. marketplace,” Boscariol said in an interview.
Greer also pointed to Canada’s dairy supply management system, and attempts to tax the U.S. digital sector, as trade irritants that are “a little hard to get past.”
“We have seen the Canadians threaten some actions on digital. They’ve paused on that for a variety of reasons. Obviously that’s good, it’s good not to do something you shouldn’t have done to begin with,” he said.
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) in May tried to triple the share of revenues that U.S. streaming giants like Netflix must spend on Canadian content, from five per cent to 15 per cent.
Less than two weeks later, the federal government directed the CRTC not to go ahead, with Ottawa appearing to back down like it did on the digital services tax last year.
Boscariol says the U.S. will likely continue to push hard against any cultural measures to support Canadian content providers, and Canada’s regulated dairy sector.
Parliament passed a Bloc Quebecois private member’s bill last year confirming supply management would not be renegotiated.
Trade experts have said it’s unlikely the U.S. will use the “nuclear option,” which would allow any country to pull out of CUSMA with six months’ notice.
“We are not at the edge of a cliff here,” said Boscariol, adding Wednesday’s move is likely more “posturing” from the Trump administration to force Canada to make concessions.
“We’re really going to get into the hard discussions and the bluster,” he said. “Unfortunately, it’s going to be a period of uncertainty for Canadian business.”
—with files from Global’s Sean Boynton
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