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So Csrney boasted he can get a deal. Then he stated we already have the “best” deal. Now there is no deal. Talk about total incompetence.
Hopefully Canada is punted out of NATO next. They are not honouring their commitments or pulling there weight.
Sounds like another Trump Iran. Cancel a perfectly good deal, start a war and settle for something far worse. Canada and Mexico should be the big winners in this renegotiation.
What is the point of negotiating with Trump anyway? He doesn’t keep his word, never has.
What is the point of trying to negotiate with Trump anyway? He doesn’t keep his word and never has.
What will Elbows Up Canadians do now? Carney didn’t deliver on one of his main campaign promises.
If no new agreement, the current agreement continues. No new agreement I say and wait for an adult leader in the US.
And there we have it … Proof positive that Carney lied to Canadians when he bragged about being the only one who can get a trade deal with the USA. He bragged he would get a deal within a month of being elected and here we are more than a year later and the situation has not improved, in fact it has deteriorated. Carney has no clothes … Canadians will finally see him for what he is … a complete Con Man.
Americans are too stupid to do some research and figure out how f*cked they’ll be without our resources.
I don’t think that negotiating with the current US administration is anything but a waste of time. What they are asking for is not anything we are willing to compromise on. Supply management is NOT on the table. It never will be. They haven’t honoured any agreement that we’ve had with them. They have never been trustworthy . We’ll be better off once we become self-sufficient again. Free trade was a mistake from the beginning. I was never in favour of it.
Hold on you your britches Liberals!! Investment is going to stall even more and we will watch even more companies head south!!
Trump and the USA can kiss my Canadian ass.
Huge fail by Carney and doesn’t deliver on a major election promise. He should do the honorable thing and resign immediately. He has let down Canadians.
@Ben. Didn’t Carney say he was thinking of joining the EU. Ask UK what that means for sovereignty.
Perhaps Danielle Smith would do the negotiating as clearly Leblanc and Carney don’t have the skill sets to do so.
Didn’t Carney promise a deal almost a year ago no? What has Leblanc and him been doing? Total crash and burn by Carney.
Who cares? I support Carney because he won’t give away our sovereignty. The conservatives, some say, would, as evidenced by their meetings with the Trump administration. Who governs Canada? Carney, not Poilievre.
Elbows Up Canadians don’t seem to understand that Trump isn’t here to protect Canadas interests. That is Carneys job and he is doing a poor job of it. Canada should pay more for acess to the largest market next door.
Trump is a child diddler that wears women’s makeup. The end.
Good. Glad to see Trump is acting in the best interest of the USA. Is Inst the PM of Canada.
Canada has been freeloading and quite parasitic on many front including military
Good call Trump.
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July 1, 2026 at 11:02 am
@Nikki: Why is your url a Russian one? lol
Coward stays from Ukraine. trolls others.
Lmao! URL? Maybe the internet just isn’t your thing.
Well fortunately this current US administration will NOT be in power for ever, let’s just wait it out until it changes and a smarter administration is in place.
Don’t renew, or shut off the oil then they will listen, stopnkissing that pathetic excuse of a dirt bag
Fine. Just sell the resources to other countries and let the fascist states swing.
trump will cave as he always does
USA holds all the cards and is a superpower. Canada should do as they are told or they can take the train.
I love that Trump is putting the boots to Canada. Canada has been freeloading for decades and taking advantage of. Glad to see Trump is looking after American interests.
I.see rhe Playstation Brigade has already shown up.
Acting like morons as usual.
I love trump. He is going to take down a bunch of GOP candidates in the mid-terms. Go trump! (Go reflect on your dumbass reflecting pool some more like that Greek Narcissus guy.) Gold statues of himself. lololololol….phucked in the head!
At LOL. Polls in NY? Certainly not in Texas, Florida, etc. clearly you know very little except Elbows Up.
Hey idiot…these are your own american polls. You are the one needing to read more.
Ronald Reagan died of dementia but he knew tariffs are just taxes on the american people. trump is no conservative.
@JD. Trump has executive authority till November 2028. His polling is irrelevant as he also won’t be running again. The Dems are a disaster and the GOP will win the White House again. Please do more research before talking so foolishly.
Trump has the lowest poll numbers since Dubya Bush lied ten thousand times about “weapons of mass destruction” which turned out to be a camel rider with a slingshot.
Who gives a phuck what he says when his own people laugh at him more and more?
@Jaybo. Canada can’t wait another 3 years. The auto sector will basically collapse. Also, didn’t Carney promise a deal? Why hasn’t he delivered on his promise?
@Nikki: Why is your url a Russian one? lol
Coward stays from Ukraine. trolls others.
Canada just needs to wait until there’s an adult in the white house. no point talking to a flip flop grifting bully felon, just a waste of time.
Carney has been a total flop so far as PM. Huge promises not kept, including he was the “guy” that could deal with Trump. Clearly not. Carney needs to resign as he is a total disgrace.
Canada likes to bad mouth the USA and blame all there problems on America. Canada can go it alone and see how good they do. Most Americans think poorly of Canada and how they have freeloaded for many decades.
Trump just blows Carney. They blow each other. Cowards of a feather blow together.
How’s our “best man to negotiate with Trump” elbows up crowd doing in Canada day? Still believing that inflation in Canada is only 3%. That the country is solid? Even the beavers are
Canada hasn’t even bothered trying to.negotitae
Instead they have relied on “Trump.bad” and MOUs to manipulate their useful.idiots
It is not in the USA best interest to renew USMCA. Canada should pay to acess the American market. They are free to trade elsewhere if they want. Glad Trump is looking out for his country, as he should.
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The United States Trade Representative Jamieson Greer says the U.S. is not renewing the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement “in its current form” — but the trade agreement will remain in place as negotiations continue.
“The United States will continue to engage with Mexico and Canada to address the Agreement’s shortcomings and our trade deficits with these countries,” Greer said in a statement Wednesday.
“However, the Agreement remains in force pending resolution of these issues or until the Agreement’s termination.”
This decision triggers a rolling annual review for up to a decade, at which point it will expire if an extension isn’t agreed upon.
Greer had a virtual meeting with Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc and Mexico Secretary of Economy Marcelo Ebrard earlier Wednesday to discuss the trade pact’s future. It was the deadline for all three partners in the pact, better known as CUSMA, to indicate whether they wanted the deal renewed.
Canada and Mexico previously said they were looking for a 16-year extension.
“We agreed on the importance of continuing our discussions and identifying ways to ensure trade and investment frameworks between Canada, the United States and Mexico continue to support North American prosperity and competitiveness,” LeBlanc said in a statement.
“For Canada, this includes substantive discussions with the United States on addressing sectoral tariffs on Canadian steel, aluminum, autos and lumber.”
In a video in Spanish posted on social media, Ebrard said Mexico is not in a hurry but the country also does not want the uncertainty of prolonged annual reviews.
The trade agreement has shielded Canada and Mexico from many of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs. Both countries are being slammed by Trump’s separate sectoral tariffs on industries like steel, aluminum, automobiles and cabinetry.
CUSMA was negotiated during the first Trump administration to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement. The sometimes tumultuous negotiations served as an early test of Ottawa’s approach to the Trump administration but ultimately all three countries hailed the agreement as a success.
But Trump has continued to cast doubt on CUSMA’s future since his return to the White House and his embrace of a sweeping tariff campaign. He has called the agreement “irrelevant” and has said it may have served its purpose.
CUSMA remains in place unless one of the partner countries gives six months’ notice that it is pulling out. It’s unclear whether the Trump administration can take that action without the approval of Congress.
Trade negotiations between Mexico and the United States have launched but Ottawa and Washington have not started official talks yet.
LeBlanc said Canada is approaching the trade discussions “from a position of strength and with the goal of preserving and strengthening one of the most successful trading relationships in the world.”
“At a time of global economic uncertainty, Canada is a stable, reliable and trusted partner,” he said. “We have the energy and natural resources the world needs, a world-class workforce, and a predictable business environment attracting the highest investment in decades.”
Carlo Dade, director of international policy and the New North America Initiative at the University of Calgary’s School of Public Policy, said the blown deadline doesn’t mean much to the future of CUSMA “as long as there is constructive work and dialogue occurring.”
“I think the market is adjusting to a new normal of uncertainty with the U.S.,” Dade said in an email. “That said, awareness of the reality also means greater awareness of the cost.”
Dade said some members of the Trump administration have indicated that the U.S. still values the trade agreement.
Greer has said there are “pillars” of the continental trade pact that work well. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and senior Trump adviser Peter Navarro have been much more critical.
“Trump is negotiating in public, so we have to discount, heavily discount, what he says, view it through the lens of his seeking leverage,” Dade said.
Andrew Hale, a fellow at Advancing American Freedom — a conservative advocacy group founded by former U.S. vice-president Mike Pence — said CUSMA was a major achievement during the first Trump administration and he credits former United States trade representative Robert Lighthizer for following the law while being a tough negotiator.
Trump’s trade actions are now sowing “chaos” and many people in the administration “don’t get Canada,” Hale said.
“They’re so unpredictable and it’s so chaotic. If I knew what their strategy was, I could make a gold mine. It’s like asking me if I have a crystal ball.”
While trade talks will continue, the uncertainty discourages long-term investment because of the deep integration among all three countries, Hale added. If negotiations continue for a long time, he said, it could diminish North America’s global competitiveness.
Annual consultations could also bring increased trade frictions, Hale said, because they “are never usually harmonious with the Trump administration.”
“They push people right to the edge of the cliff every time they have these negotiations,” he said.
— With files from Sarah Ritchie in Ottawa
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