Canada

Canada will not achieve a free trade deal with no American tariffs, and must settle with coming “second” to America when it comes to the auto sector, according to U.S. President Donald Trump’s point man on trade.

Appearing virtually, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick bluntly told an audience at a Canada-U.S. conference in Toronto on Wednesday that the United States is determined to dominate the car-making industry.

According to five sources who were in the room for the discussion, which was held under the ”Chatham House Rule” that bars reporters and media coverage, Lutnick said Canada has to consider the “big picture” and realize that it could be in an excellent place, but that trade between the two countries is never going back to the way it used to be under three decades of free trade agreements.

Relief for Canada from U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum may come thanks to renewed interest in a pipeline project first proposed more than 15 years ago.

Prime Minister Mark Carney raised the Keystone XL oil pipeline, which would run from northern Alberta to the U.S. Midwest, during his conversations with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday, according to a source with direct knowledge of the meeting.

The source said Carney expressed renewed national interest in the pipeline from the Canadian side and the U.S. president was receptive to the project advancing.

You know the panic is real when CBC mentions Oil in a positive way to bolster Carney.

Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada arrived at the White House on Tuesday with a few clear objectives: to take heat out of his early encounters with President Trump, to avoid references to Canada becoming a 51st state, and to begin talks on steel and aluminum tariffs.

In other words, to revert to the old days, when Canada and the United States were the tightest of defense and intelligence allies, and somehow managed to keep their disputes over everything from dairy products to softwood lumber to automobiles on a separate track.

Watch Donald Trump abolish Mark Carney’s entire 8-month record in 30 seconds flat.

Trump: “There’s one very easy way to solve that problem…”
➡️ “The 51st State.”

Now watch Carney’s face
that’s the look of a man realizing he’s not negotiating… he’s being absorbed. pic.twitter.com/N44DB0SH8K

— Marc Nixon (@MarcNixon24) October 7, 2025

Canada has been working for years to be ready for an initiative like the U.S.-led Golden Dome defence system, says the Royal Canadian Air Force’s top commander in NORAD, who argues that the two countries have little choice but to work together in the face of a shared, escalating threat from polar attacks.

The commander, Major General J.D. Smyth, told The Globe and Mail that the Air Force has been preparing for the Golden Dome as part of its work to shore up Canada’s military presence in the Arctic and modernize North American air defences.

I bet Carney has the General sidelined.

I don’t think Carney wants anything to do with the USA, all the better for he and his cronies to strip mine the nation of viable assets.

Mark Carney’s second visit to the White House as Prime Minister ended without any relief from punitive U.S. tariffs, but President Donald Trump predicted Canada and the United States would ultimately reach a deal even if some levies remain in place.

Dominic LeBlanc, the minister responsible for Canada-U.S. trade, remained behind in Washington to continue talks even as Mr. Carney heads home Wednesday morning. Mr. Carney was scheduled to dine with Vice-President JD Vance Tuesday evening.

On a Thursday evening in early September, King Street West was crowded with fans and industry types attending the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival. Just down the street from the red carpets, at an event space upstairs from a bar, a markedly wonkier assemblage had convened. The Canadian Club Toronto was sponsoring a Q&A discussion with Canada’s Commissioner of Competition, Matthew Boswell. Despite the entertainment alternatives on offer just down the block, the room was packed.

The Competition Bureau seeks to bolster Canada’s economy and root out anti-competitive practices. It issues reports about the state of national competitiveness and casts a cold eye on threats to consumer interests. Boswell, smart and engaging with a self-deprecating measure of Canada nice, had just opened the floor to questions. More than 47 minutes into the evening’s discussion, Vass Bednar, the head of a Canadian think tank, rose to ask about “the elephant in the room” that had gone tactfully unmentioned.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has been accused of sucking up to Donald Trump after praising the ‘transformative president’ at the White House today.

Carney met Trump seeking to ease US tariffs that are hitting Canada’s economy – and his popularity at home.

The 60-year-old former Bank of England governor joked: ‘I wore red for you’, pointing to his tie as Trump greeted him outside the west wing. Trump often wears a red tie, although on this occasion he was wearing a blue one.

Funniest. President. EVER.

CANADA PM CARNEY: “…and, the most important thing—“

PRESIDENT TRUMP: “—the MERGER of CANADA and the United States! ”

*Everyone bursts into laughing*

CARNEY: “That wasn’t where I was going! ”

How can’t you love him?! pic.twitter.com/97A6JwALKL

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 7, 2025

BREAKING: Carney wasn’t given a single word.
It was The Trump Show.

Trump made it clear:
Tariffs stay.
Competition’s over.
And the only “exit plan” he sees for Canada?
The 51st State.

Carney went to negotiate
and got domesticated. pic.twitter.com/XGDMrYRB2i

— Marc Nixon (@MarcNixon24) October 7, 2025

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to meet today with U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office, a meeting that political and industry observers are watching to see whether it brings any tariff reprieve.

A senior government official, speaking on a not-for-attribution basis ahead of the trip, tempered expectations about what could be delivered during their second sitdown in Washington since Carney took office back in April.

“Well, I guess he’s going to ask about tariffs ’cause a lot of companies from Canada are moving into the United States,” Trump said when asked about the upcoming meeting on Monday. He did not name which companies.

This is the CBC’s live feed.

Secretary of State for Defence Procurement Stephen Fuhr says it’s unlikely Ottawa will withdraw from its contract with the United States to purchase 16 F-35 fighter jets, because the aircraft are currently under production.

Fuhr told CBC’s Rosemary Barton Live that he doesn’t think Prime Minister Mark Carney will try to get out of the contract for the American-made jets despite comments from former Defence Minister Bill Blair in March that Canada was reconsidering the purchase amid trade tensions with the United States.