Was Mark Carney's Davos speech a mistake if it upset Trump?
Not everyone was happy with the prime minister's landmark address
In an interview with an American television network this week, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent volunteered some advice to Mark Carney.
"I would just encourage Prime Minister Carney to do what he thinks is best for the Canadian people, not his own virtue-signalling, because we do have a USMCA negotiation coming up," Bessent said, using the American name for the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement.
"He rose to power on an anti-American, anti-Trump message, and that's not a great place to be when you're negotiating with an economy that is multiples larger than you are and your biggest trading partner."
The cause of Bessent's concern was apparently Carney's widely lauded speech in Davos, Switzerland, last week. And the treasury secretary's comments came after U.S. President Donald Trump's suggestion that Canada needed to be more "grateful."
"I would not pick a fight going into USMCA to score some cheap political points," Bessent said.
If a fight is currently being had, one might ask whether Carney — or Canada — can really be said to have picked it. Canada was largely minding its own business a year ago when the United States launched tariffs against Canadian products.
One might also ask whether Carney's speech in Davos was really motivated by a mere desire to score political points — or, for that matter, whether those political points were particularly cheap.
But if Bessent thinks Carney would have been better off not delivering that speech, he is not entirely alone.
Second-guessing Carney's speech
"Carney is a really smart guy and he said in the United Kingdom during Brexit, it's really dangerous for the United Kingdom to separate itself from its No. 1 trading partner," Goldy Hyder, president of the Business Council of Canada, told Bloomberg News this week. "And yet that's exactly kind of the narrative that came out in Davos."
The Business Council represents the chief executives of some of the biggest companies operating in Canada.
Lucy Hargreaves, co-founder of Build Canada, a think-tank launched last year by figures in Canada's tech industry, wrote in an op-ed for the Toronto Star that Carney's speech was "poorly judged."
"This is why Carney's behaviour … is so concerning — it suggests that we are back where Trudeau left us: political leaders scoring anti-American points for partisan gain, at the country's enormous detriment," Hargreaves wrote, referencing both Carney's Davos speech and his framing of a new agreement with China.
Carney says Davos speech made a point 'Canadians understood months ago'It's not unreasonable, of course, to think — or worry — about how any action by a Canadian government might impact relations with Canada's largest trading partner. And it's perhaps unsurprising that corporate interests in Canada are particularly inclined to think about such things.
At the same time, allowing the American president's potential for anger and retribution to dictate the behaviour of Canadian leaders risks ceding a great amount of power. It is also worth remembering that the president has shown a willingness to get upset over relatively innocuous remarks, as in the aftermath of the G7 summit in 2018.
In that case, Trump's apparent anger at the prime minister did not stop him from completing a new free trade deal with Canada less than four months later.
A matter of sovereignty, geography and economics
This recurring conversation about how much or how little Canadian leaders should worry about upsetting the American administration — or how often or how forcefully Canadian leaders should condemn American actions — speaks to the central challenge currently facing the country: the need for sovereignty set against the unchangeable nature of geography, the existence of deep economic integration and the reality of a power imbalance.
It might be agreed that Canadian leaders should not needlessly attack the United States or lob gutter insults at members of the administration. One way or another, Canada is going to have to maintain some kind of relationship with the country with which it shares a 9,000-kilometre land border.
But then it is necessary to ask whether Carney's remarks in Davos were needless, pointless, unjustifiably provocative or insulting — whether it was simply or primarily about scoring "cheap political points." One might also ask how much of the speech — or specifically which parts — the American administration would disagree with.
The context of Carney's speech included not just the CUSMA renegotiations, but also Trump's escalating threats against Europe over Greenland. Hours before Carney appeared on stage, Trump posted an image to social media that depicted not just Greenland, but also Canada, as part of the United States. And without knowing exactly what Carney had in mind when he was preparing it, it's fair to say the speech has attracted attention beyond both Canada and the White House.
"I thought Mark Carney's speech in Davos was outstanding … and, yes, I think the Australian prime minister needs to give a similar speech, which is essentially acknowledging that the world has changed," former Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull told an interviewer this week.
Turnbull said Anthony Albanese, the current prime minister, was correct to take the position that he would not offer running commentary on the actions of Trump. But Turnbull said there was a place in the Australian discourse for a speech like Carney's.
"Unfortunately, I don't think we've yet heard from our government the type of honesty and the clear, rigorous analysis of the world as it is, as we've had from the Canadian prime minister," Turnbull said.
'We have to be able to look ourselves in the mirror'
One way to measure the power of a speech is to consider the actions its words help inspire. And while it's too early to do that in the case of Carney's Davos speech, concerns about its impact on CUSMA negotiations may come to seem secondary if the speech is ultimately part of a turning point in how Canada and other "middle powers" conduct themselves.
"I do think it's appropriate and Canadians expect a prime minister to tell them the truth and that's why, in the government I worked in, at different points, you saw Chrystia Freeland and Justin Trudeau levelling with Canadians about the threat presented by Donald Trump," says Brian Clow, a former adviser to both Freeland and Trudeau.
"As we saw in the first term, sometimes it didn't take much to generate a huge reaction from the Americans."
Clow says CUSMA talks were always likely to be difficult. And while some industries might understandably be nervous, previous "episodes" of conflict have eventually faded. He also noted that Carney's lead on the trade talks, Dominic LeBlanc, spoke this week with U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer.
Alberta separatist meetings part of U.S. efforts to 'destabilize' Canada: KinewIn an interview with CBC's Power & Politics this week, Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew praised the "moral clarity" of Carney's speech and framed moral clarity as an advantage for Canada. He also said it would be a mistake to try to simply keep our collective heads down.
"We have to be able to look ourselves in the mirror as Canadians, as Canada, at the end of this. And I think it's completely appropriate for our prime minister to give the speech that he gave at Davos. And I think everyone, including Donald Trump, should expect that we're still going to show up at the negotiating table and drive a hard bargain when it comes to the CUSMA review," he said.
"This is who we are as Canadians. We're the adults in the room. We are people who can go into the corners at a hockey rink and then go out for beers at the end of the hockey game."
One way or another, the goal now is Canadian sovereignty. But sovereignty might not mean much if Canadian leaders have to forever hold their tongues.
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has weighed in on the separatism movement in Alberta.
Bessent has said that the province is a “natural partner” to the U.S., and that it has “great resources”.
While Bessent is certainly the most high profile U.S. official to muse about Alberta separatism, he hasn’t been the only MAGA supporter to chime in. Donald Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon and Republican congressman Andy Ogles have also waded into the debate.
Today we’re asking why MAGA is eyeing Alberta separatism and whether it’s a threat to Canada’s national security.
Joining us: Jason Markusoff, writer and producer for CBC Calgary, and Patrick Lennox, a national security expert who ran for the Liberals in the last federal election in Edmonton. We’ll also hear from Jeffrey Rath, legal counsel and spokesperson for the Alberta Prosperity Project. That’s the main advocacy group pushing for Alberta independence.
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Subject: YO Mr Trudeau Need I say Bah Humbug again???
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>>>>> http://davidraymondamos3.
>>>>>
>>>>> 83 The Plaintiff states that now that Canada is involved in more war >>>>> essential for the security and tranquility of the developed world. An
>>>>> ISIS “caliphate,” in the Middle East, no matter how small, is a clear
>>>>> and present danger to the entire world. This “occupied state,”
>>>>> or“failed state” will prosecute an unending Islamic inspired war of
>>>>> terror against not only the “western world,” but Arab states
>>>>> “moderate” or not, as well. The security, safety, and tranquility of
>>>>> Canada and Canadians are just at risk now with the emergence of an
>>>>> ISIS“caliphate” no matter how large or small, as it was with the
>>>>> Taliban and Al Quaeda “marriage” in Afghanistan.
>>>>>
>>>>> One of the everlasting “legacies” of the “Trudeau the Elder’s dynasty
>>>>> was Canada and successive Liberal governments cowering behind the
>>>>> amerkan’s nuclear and conventional military shield, at the same time
>>>>> denigrating, insulting them, opposing them, and at the same time
>>>>> self-aggrandizing ourselves as “peace keepers,” and progenitors of
>>>>> “world peace.” Canada failed. The United States of Amerka, NATO, the
>>>>> G7 and or G20 will no longer permit that sort of sanctimonious
>>>>> behavior from Canada or its government any longer. And Prime Minister
>>>>> Stephen Harper, Foreign Minister John Baird , and Cabinet are fully
>>>>> cognizant of that reality. Even if some editorial boards, and pundits
>>>>> are not.
>>>>>
>>>>> Justin, Trudeau “the younger” is reprising the time “honoured” liberal
>>>>> mantra, and tradition of expecting the amerkans or the rest of the
>>>>> world to do “the heavy lifting.” Justin Trudeau and his “butt buddy”
>>>>> David Amos are telling Canadians that we can guarantee our security
>>>>> and safety by expecting other nations to fight for us. That Canada can
>>>>> and should attempt to guarantee Canadians safety by providing
>>>>> “humanitarian aid” somewhere, and call a sitting US president a “war
>>>>> criminal.” This morning Australia announced they too, were sending
>>>>> tactical aircraft to eliminate the menace of an ISIS “caliphate.”
>>>>>
>>>>> In one sense Prime Minister Harper is every bit the scoundrel Trudeau
>>>>> “the elder” and Jean ‘the crook” Chretien was. Just As Trudeau, and
>>>>> successive Liberal governments delighted in diminishing,
>>>>> marginalizing, under funding Canadian Forces, and sending Canadian
>>>>> military men and women to die with inadequate kit and modern
>>>>> equipment; so too is Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Canada’s F-18s are
>>>>> antiquated, poorly equipped, and ought to have been replaced five
>>>>> years ago. But alas, there won’t be single RCAF fighter jock that
>>>>> won’t go, or won’t want to go, to make Canada safe or safer.
>>>>>
>>>>> My Grandfather served this country. My father served this country. My
>>>>> Uncle served this country. And I have served this country. Justin
>>>>> Trudeau has not served Canada in any way. Thomas Mulcair has not
>>>>> served this country in any way. Liberals and so called social
>>>>> democrats haven’t served this country in any way. David Amos, and
>>>>> other drooling fools have not served this great nation in any way. Yet
>>>>> these fools are more than prepared to ensure their, our safety to
>>>>> other nations, and then criticize them for doing so.
>>>>>
>>>>> Canada must again, now, “do our bit” to guarantee our own security,
>>>>> and tranquility, but also that of the world. Canada has never before
>>>>> shirked its responsibility to its citizens and that of the world.
>>>>>
>>>>> Prime Minister Harper will not permit this country to do so now
>>>>>
>>>>> From: dnd_mdn@forces.gc.ca
>>>>> Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 14:17:17 -0400
>>>>> Subject: RE: Re Greg Weston, The CBC , Wikileaks, USSOCOM, Canada and
>>>>> the War in Iraq (I just called SOCOM and let them know I was still
>>>>> alive
>>>>> To: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>>>>>
>>>>> This is to confirm that the Minister of National Defence has received
>>>>> your email and it will be reviewed in due course. Please do not reply
>>>>> to this message: it is an automatic acknowledgement.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ---------- Original message ----------
>>>>> From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
>>>>> Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 13:55:30 -0300
>>>>> Subject: Re Greg Weston, The CBC , Wikileaks, USSOCOM, Canada and the
>>>>> War in Iraq (I just called SOCOM and let them know I was still alive
>>>>> To: DECPR@forces.gc.ca, Public.Affairs@socom.mil,
>>>>> Raymonde.Cleroux@mpcc-cppm.gc.
>>>>> william.elliott@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>>>>> dnd_mdn@forces.gc.ca, media@drdc-rddc.gc.ca, information@forces.gc.ca,
>>>>> milner@unb.ca, charters@unb.ca, lwindsor@unb.ca,
>>>>> sarah.weir@mpcc-cppm.gc.ca, birgir <birgir@althingi.is>, smari
>>>>> <smari@immi.is>, greg.weston@cbc.ca, pm <pm@pm.gc.ca>,
>>>>> susan@blueskystrategygroup.com
>>>>> eugene@blueskystrategygroup.
>>>>> Cc: "Edith. Cody-Rice" <Edith.Cody-Rice@cbc.ca>, "terry.seguin"
>>>>> <terry.seguin@cbc.ca>, acampbell <acampbell@ctv.ca>, whistleblower
>>>>> <whistleblower@ctv.ca>
>>>>>
>>>>> I talked to Don Newman earlier this week before the beancounters David
>>>>> Dodge and Don Drummond now of Queen's gave their spin about Canada's
>>>>> Health Care system yesterday and Sheila Fraser yapped on and on on
>>>>> CAPAC during her last days in office as if she were oh so ethical.. To
>>>>> be fair to him I just called Greg Weston (613-288-6938) I suggested
>>>>> that he should at least Google SOUCOM and David Amos It would be wise
>>>>> if he check ALL of CBC's sources before he publishes something else
>>>>> about the DND EH Don Newman? Lets just say that the fact that your
>>>>> old CBC buddy, Tony Burman is now in charge of Al Jazeera English
>>>>> never impressed me. The fact that he set up a Canadian office is
>>>>> interesting though
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyone can call me back and stress test my integrity after they read
>>>>> this simple pdf file. BTW what you Blue Sky dudes pubished about
>>>>> Potash Corp and BHP is truly funny. Perhaps Stevey Boy Harper or Brad
>>>>> Wall will fill ya in if you are to shy to call mean old me.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.scribd.com/doc/
>>>>>
>>>>> The Governor General, the PMO and the PCO offices know that I am not a
>>>>> shy political animal
>>>>>
>>>>> Veritas Vincit
>>>>> David Raymond Amos
>>>>> 902 800 0369
>>>>>
>>>>> Enjoy Mr Weston
>>>>> http://www.cbc.ca/m/touch/
>>>>>
>>>>> "But Lang, defence minister McCallum's chief of staff, says military
>>>>> brass were not entirely forthcoming on the issue. For instance, he
>>>>> says, even McCallum initially didn't know those soldiers were helping
>>>>> to plan the invasion of Iraq up to the highest levels of command,
>>>>> including a Canadian general.
>>>>>
>>>>> That general is Walt Natynczyk, now Canada's chief of defence staff,
>>>>> who eight months after the invasion became deputy commander of 35,000
>>>>> U.S. soldiers and other allied forces in Iraq. Lang says Natynczyk was
>>>>> also part of the team of mainly senior U.S. military brass that helped
>>>>> prepare for the invasion from a mobile command in Kuwait."
>>>>>
>>>>> http://baconfat53.blogspot.
>>>>>
>>>>> "I remember years ago when the debate was on in Canada, about there
>>>>> being weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Our American 'friends"
>>>>> demanded that Canada join into "the Coalition of the Willing. American
>>>>> "veterans" and sportscasters loudly denounced Canada for NOT buying
>>>>> into the US policy.
>>>>>
>>>>> At the time I was serving as a planner at NDHQ and with 24 other of my
>>>>> colleagues we went to Tampa SOUCOM HQ to be involved in the planning
>>>>> in the planning stages of the op....and to report to NDHQ, that would
>>>>> report to the PMO upon the merits of the proposed operation. There was
>>>>> never at anytime an existing target list of verified sites where there
>>>>> were deployed WMD.
>>>>>
>>>>> Coalition assets were more than sufficient for the initial strike and
>>>>> invasion phase but even at that point in the planning, we were
>>>>> concerned about the number of "boots on the ground" for the occupation
>>>>> (and end game) stage of an operation in Iraq. We were also concerned
>>>>> about the American plans for occupation plans of Iraq because they at
>>>>> that stage included no contingency for a handing over of civil
>>>>> authority to a vetted Iraqi government and bureaucracy.
>>>>>
>>>>> There was no detailed plan for Iraq being "liberated" and returned to
>>>>> its people...nor a thought to an eventual exit plan. This was contrary
>>>>> to the lessons of Vietnam but also to current military thought, that
>>>>> folks like Colin Powell and "Stuffy" Leighton and others elucidated
>>>>> upon. "What's the mission" how long is the mission, what conditions
>>>>> are to met before US troop can redeploy? Prime Minister Jean Chretien
>>>>> and the PMO were even at the very preliminary planning stages wary of
>>>>> Canadian involvement in an Iraq operation....History would prove them
>>>>> correct. The political pressure being applied on the PMO from the
>>>>> George W Bush administration was onerous
>>>>>
>>>>> American military assets were extremely overstretched, and Canadian
>>>>> military assets even more so It was proposed by the PMO that Canadian
>>>>> naval platforms would deploy to assist in naval quarantine operations
>>>>> in the Gulf and that Canadian army assets would deploy in Afghanistan
>>>>> thus permitting US army assets to redeploy for an Iraqi
>>>>> operation....The PMO thought that "compromise would save Canadian
>>>>> lives and liberal political capital.. and the priority of which
>>>>> ....not necessarily in that order. "
>>>>>
>>>>> You can bet that I called these sneaky Yankees again today EH John
>>>>> Adams? of the CSE within the DND?
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.socom.mil/
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
B.C. premier says Alberta separatists seeking assistance from U.S. is 'treason'
Separatist leader who met with Trump officials says Eby is acting 'childish'
B.C. Premier David Eby says Alberta separatists meeting with the U.S. administration and seeking financial backing is an act of "treason," as the issue of national sovereignty loomed over a meeting between the premiers and Prime Minister Mark Carney on Thursday.
"To go to a foreign country and to ask for assistance in breaking up Canada, there's an old-fashioned word for that, and that word is treason," said Eby, ahead of the closed-door meeting in Ottawa.
He was reacting to reports that members of U.S. President Donald Trump's administration have held meetings with members of the Alberta Prosperity Project, a separatist group that is pushing for the western province to become independent.
The group is seeking a possible $500-billion US line of credit from the U.S. Treasury to help bankroll the new country if they come out victorious in a referendum.
An official with the U.S. State Department confirmed the meetings, saying the department "regularly meets with civil society types," but added that "no commitments were made."
"It is completely inappropriate to seek to weaken Canada, to go and ask for assistance, to break up this country from a foreign power and — with respect — a president who has not been particularly respectful of Canada's sovereignty," said Eby.
"I think that while we can respect the right of any Canadian to express themselves to vote in a referendum, I think we need to draw the line at people seeking the assistance of foreign countries to break up this beautiful land of ours," he said.
APP cofounder calls Eby comments 'defamatory'
Alberta Prosperity Project co-founder Jeffrey Rath pushed back against Eby's comments, calling them "defamatory."
"It's a childish temper tantrum on behalf of a spoiled NDP politician," Rath told CBC News.
"We're thrilled with Premier Eby losing his little mind today and saying the nasty things he's saying and all the insults that he's levying. It's childish, it's defamatory, it detracts from his credibility."
Trump cabinet minister backs Alberta separatismAlberta Premier Danielle Smith said she "supports a strong and sovereign Alberta within a united Canada," although her critics point out she made it easier last year for an independence petition to succeed.
At a closing news conference Thursday, the premier said she expects the U.S. administration to "confine their discussion about Alberta's democratic process to Albertans and to Canadians," adding she'll raise the issue with both her delegates in Washington and Ottawa.
Asked about the cross-border meetings, Carney would only say he expects the U.S. administration — which has previously made jabs about making Canada the 51st state — to "respect Canadian sovereignty."
The prime minister said Trump has not raised either Alberta or Quebec sovereignty in the leaders' conversations.
"I'm always clear, in my conversation with President Trump, to that effect and then move on to what we can do together," he said.
Questions about ‘treason’ overshadow trade strategy meeting in Ottawa'Enough is enough': Ford
Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew joked to reporters earlier in the day that all the talk makes him want to have a referendum as well.
"Except in Manitoba the question is going to be 'do you want to stay a part of Canada?' and the two choices are going to be yeah and heck yeah," he said before sitting down with his counterparts.
"So that's where we're coming from."
A Manitoba referendum on staying in Canada would be a choice between 'yeah and heck yeah,' Kinew jokesOntario Premier Doug Ford urged Smith "to stand up and say enough is enough."
Organizers of the Alberta independence movement are collecting signatures in order to trigger a referendum in that province. The pro-independence campaign has been travelling across the province as organizers try to collect nearly 178,000 signatures over the next few months.
Last week, a senior Trump adviser spoke encouragingly about the prospect of Alberta separating from Canada.
A
person wears an Alberta First hat while taking part in signing a
petition that seeks to have a referendum on Alberta separation. (Jason Franson/The Canadian Press) "They have great resources. Albertans are a very independent people," U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told the conservative website Real America's Voice.
"Rumour [is] that they may have a referendum on whether they want to stay in Canada or not.… People are talking. People want sovereignty. They want what the U.S. has got."
Rath said he's been personally involved in the meetings in Washington, but declined to say who specifically he has met with. He pointed to Bessent's comments as evidence that the engagements are gaining traction.
"The officials we've been meeting with in Washington are extremely enthusiastic about the prospect about a free and independent Alberta," Rath said.
Republican Rep. Andy Ogles of Tennessee also weighed in late last week.
"I think the people of Alberta would agree with the sentiment that they would prefer not to be part of Canada and to be part of the United States, because we are winning day in and day out," he said.
While vocal, recent public polling suggests the pro-independence movement is a minority. A poll released earlier this month found that only one-fifth of Alberta respondents would vote to separate.
Third Quebec referendum looms
The Alberta independence movement isn't the only fracture in the federation.
Parti Québécois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, who polls suggest is the man to beat in the fall provincial election, has promised a third referendum if he wins.
While St-Pierre Plamondon remains popular, opinion polls generally show that about two-thirds of Quebecers would vote against the idea of an independent Quebec.
The back and forth between the PQ leader and Ottawa has heated up in recent days.
St-Pierre Plamondon has been critical of Carney's speech last week about the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, when the prime minister described the 1759 battle as the start of a "partnership" between French and English people in Canada and called for national unity.
"Mr. Carney, Quebec does not exist because of Canada. In fact, Quebec has survived in its difference and specificity despite Canada," St-Pierre Plamondon said to a standing ovation at the PQ convention over the weekend.
Late last year, the head of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) said he's bracing for the possibility that foreign adversaries could try to meddle in the two possible sovereignty referendums.
Dan Rogers told CBC’s Power & Politics in November that CSIS doesn't have a role in "Canadians exercising their opinion" but agreed the manipulation of information could be a vulnerability.
"We definitely have to be attentive to the possibility of information operations or interference," he said.
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Scott Bessent warns Carney to stop 'virtue signalling' amid looming trade talks
In remarks at Trump event, U.S. treasury secretary issues new message to Canada on renegotiating CUSMA
The Trump administration is once again ramping up its rhetorical pressure on Canada, with U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent issuing a fresh warning to Prime Minister Mark Carney over looming trade negotiations.
Bessent was at an event in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday to launch what U.S. President Donald Trump has dubbed "Trump Accounts," an investment vehicle for children.
In an interview with CNBC's Sara Eisen, Bessent was asked about the rift between Trump and Carney over the prime minister's headline-grabbing speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, last week.
"I would just encourage Prime Minister Carney to do what he thinks is best for the Canadian people, not his own virtue signalling, because we do have a USMCA negotiation coming up," Bessent said, using the American acronym for the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA).
"I would not pick a fight going into USMCA to score some cheap political points."
Scott Bessent warns Carney not to 'pick a fight' with Trump ahead of trade talksBessent said that Carney "rose to power on an anti-American, anti-Trump message, and that's not a great place to be when you're negotiating with an economy that is multiples larger than you are and your biggest trading partner."
After slapping tariffs on a range of Canadian exports to the United States in 2025, the Trump White House has of late been threatening significant changes to CUSMA as the deal comes up for review this year.
Those threatened changes run all the way up to Trump suggesting the U.S. doesn't need the agreement at all, despite widespread support for it among American industries.
'It never really works out well'
At Wednesday's event, Bessent also took a swipe at Carney's transition to politics after serving as governor of both the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England.
"In my investment career, I've seen what happens when a technocrat tries to pivot and become a politician. It never really works out well," he said.
Bessent's latest comments come on the heels of claiming that Carney walked back what he said in Davos during a phone call on Monday with Trump.
On Tuesday, Carney denied recanting his message. "To be absolutely clear, and I said this to the president, I meant what I said in Davos," Carney told reporters on Parliament Hill.
Carney denies U.S. claims he walked back Davos speechTrump and his officials have made Carney a frequent target of scorn in the week since he spoke in Davos of "American hegemony" and warned that "great powers have begun using economic integration as weapons, tariffs as leverage."
Last Thursday, Trump withdrew his invitation to Carney to join his newly created "Board of Peace," a collection of some three dozen leaders from such countries as El Salvador, Hungary, Israel, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, with Trump as its chairman for life.
On Saturday, in a social media post calling Carney "Governor," Trump threatened to hit all Canadian goods with a tariff of 100% if Canada "makes a deal with China."
U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick slammed Carney's speech as "political noise" in a media interview in Davos, "Give me a break, they have the second-best [trade] deal in the world and all I gotta do is listen to this guy whine and complain," he said.
Carney has said the blowback from the Trump administration "should be viewed in the broader context" of the upcoming CUSMA renegotiations.
Canada, the U.S. and Mexico must indicate by July 1 whether they want to extend the agreement, renegotiate its terms or let it expire.
U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer met with his Mexican counterpart on Wednesday to discuss the CUSMA review.
The pair agreed to begin formal discussions on possible reforms to the agreement, "including stronger rules of origin for key industrial goods, enhanced collaboration on critical minerals, and increased external trade policy alignment," according to a statement from Greer's office.
Formal discussions between Canada and the U.S. have yet to begin.
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Ontario premier says election of a separatist party in Quebec would be a 'disaster'
'Why would you intervene in Quebec?' questions PQ leader
Ontario Premier Doug Ford dipped his toe into Quebec provincial politics Wednesday, suggesting that the election of a separatist party in Quebec would be a 'disaster' for Canada.
Ford was speaking at a joint news conference with New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt before a meeting of provincial premiers.
That will likely be current Quebec Premier François Legault's final first ministers' meeting, as Legault announced earlier this month he would be resigning as premier once his party selects a new leader.
With the Parti Québécois (PQ)'s Paul St-Pierre Plamondon leading handily in opinion polls ahead of the fall provincial election, Ford and Holt were asked what it might be like to sit around the first ministers' table with a separatist premier.
"It'd be a disaster for our country if the separatists got elected. It's as simple as that. We have to be a united Canada right now," Ford said.
"There's never been a more important time in our history to make sure that we stand shoulder to shoulder, united," he continued.
"Not only it'll be good for Canada, it will be good for Quebecers," Ford said.
PQ leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon responded to Ford's comments with sarcasm, speaking to reporters at a PQ caucus meeting Thursday in Saint-Georges, about 100 kilometres southeast of Quebec City.
"I'm convinced that Doug Ford said that because he loves Quebec and because he wants to prioritize Quebec's interest above all, so I'm very touched," St-Pierre Plamondon said.
He went on to say it's clear Ford cares only about Ontario's interests, even if they come at the expense of Quebec.
"A few months ago he was trying to steal doctors from Quebec to benefit from Legault's negotiations with doctors," St-Pierre Plamondon said.
"He threw in that advertisement in the U.S. without consulting Quebec, and it had an impact on us," he said.
St-Pierre Plamondon said ultimately he finds Ford's comments ridiculous.
"Why would you intervene in Quebec and tell people how to vote and where is that going to lead?" he said.
"We've seen that over and over again, and it's kind of funny to a certain extent," St-Pierre Plamondon said.
Other premiers echo Ford's comments
Holt and other premiers made similar comments to Ford Wednesday, albeit somewhat more diplomatically.
"Because of everything that's happening, this current uncertainty, we shouldn't contribute to the economic and social uncertainty. It's a time to strengthen ourselves together," Holt said.
"New Brunswick would like to see Quebec as a good neighbour, a good partner within Canada," she said.
Nova Scotia's premier also weighed in Wednesday.
"I'm on team Canada and I love this country and I believe in this country and I like this country the way it is," Tim Houston said in Ottawa.
"We have to recognize that there are people with grievances and accepting those grievances and trying to work through them is really important," he said.
British Columbia Premier David Eby said for him and British Columbians, "there's really only one path forward for Canadians, and that's through a unified country."
"Now is the time for us all to pull together. And that's the case whether it's Alberta, Quebec or anywhere else," he added.
Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew emphasized the links between Quebec and Manitoba's francophone population.
"There's a place for the nation of Quebec within Canada," Kinew said, adding that he would work with whoever Quebecers choose as their premier.
PQ popular in Quebec, sovereignty less so
The comments come as Quebec politics are undergoing a seismic shift in the months leading up to the expected fall election.
Legault's resignation means his governing and hugely unpopular Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) party is looking for a new leader.
The opposition Liberal Party of Quebec is also looking for a new leader, after the short-lived tenure of Pablo Rodriguez.
That makes St-Pierre Plamondon the longest-serving leader among major provincial parties. Under his leadership, the PQ has been dominating in public opinion polls in recent months and has racked up a series of byelection victories.
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St-Pierre Plamondon, leader of the Parti Québécois. The PQ is polling
near the top in voter intentions, though support for independence lags
behind the party's overall popularity. (CBC/Sylvain Roy-Roussel)St-Pierre Plamondon has promised to launch a referendum on Quebec independence within the first mandate of a potential PQ government.
His popularity among voters does not necessarily translate into a fervour for independence.
Opinion polls generally show that about two-thirds of Quebecers would vote against the idea of an independent Quebec, although a recent uptick in support for sovereignty among younger voters has been encouraging for the PQ.
Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet said he wasn't surprised by Ford's comments, and he fired back Wednesday.
"The other Canadian provinces are colonies of Ontario. The Canadian economy is built around the Ontario economy," Blanchet said.
"If Doug Ford catches a cold, the Prime Minister scuttles off to Ontario," he said.
"The day when Quebecers will separate, what we will separate from first and foremost is Ontario."
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Post-Davos, Carney’s speech in Quebec is causing an uproar
Federal and Quebec politicians accuse PM of misrepresenting history
Two days after receiving a standing ovation at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Prime Minister Mark Carney made an address in Quebec City that caused an uproar among Quebec's political class.
Speaking on Jan. 22 from the Plains of Abraham in Quebec City, Carney described the site's 1759 battle, which saw British troops defeat the French, as symbolizing the start of a partnership between two founding peoples.
It was where "Canada began to make its founding choice of accommodation over assimilation, of partnership over domination, of building together over pulling apart," he said.
But for many francophones, the site is "associated with national humiliation and a durable loss of agency," writes Daniel Béland, political science professor and director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, in a Policy Magazine article published Saturday.
At 30 minutes, Carney's speech lasted roughly as long as the battle itself.
Alexandre Boulerice, the only New Democrat MP in Quebec, called it a "reinterpretation of history that makes absolutely no sense to the vast majority of Quebecers" while Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet called on Carney to apologize for his “deplorable mistake.”
Parti Québécois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon rebuked Carney’s account in a speech of his own at the sovereignist party’s convention in St-Hyacinthe, Que.
"Mr. Carney, Quebec does not exist because of Canada. In fact, Quebec has survived in its difference and specificity despite Canada," St-Pierre Plamondon said.
Months out from the provincial election and after François Legault’s resignation as premier, St-Pierre Plamondon and the PQ maintain a commanding lead in the polls .
Carney stands by comments
Jean-François Roberge, Quebec's French-language minister and a Coalition Avenir Québec MNA, invoked Carney's acclaimed Davos speech to criticize what he said in Quebec's capital.
"Two days ago, Mark Carney reminded us of Václav Havel’s famous speech, inviting us to stop 'living within a lie' and that the 'power of the powerless' begins with honesty,” Roberge wrote in a social media post Friday. “I suggest he go back and read his own speech from the day before."
Tuesday, Marc Tanguay — interim leader of the Quebec Liberal Party — said Carney is contradicting a historical fact by describing the conquest of New France as the start of a partnership.
“Mark Carney’s speech was clumsy,” Tanguay said.
However, as the interim leader of a historically federalist party at Quebec’s National Assembly, Tanguay stopped short of demanding an apology from Carney.
“I think he needs to revisit some parts of our history,” Tanguay said.
The speech was a glaring blunder, according to journalist and political commentator Chantal Hébert.
"Perhaps Mr. Carney wasn't paying attention in his history classes, or maybe the history he learned doesn't quite align with reality," she told Radio-Canada on Friday.
She noted that "it would be a grave mistake for Mr. Carney and his team to think that the backlash to these remarks is limited to sovereignist circles."
Hébert also took issue with Carney mentioning in passing significant events, such as the Great Deportation of Acadians, which saw thousands of Acadians deported for refusing to swear allegiance to the Crown, and the Durham Report of 1839, which argued for the assimilation of French Canadians.
Carney
"just gave the Parti Québécois its best day — its best weekend — since
he became prime minister, especially considering it was during a party
convention," Hébert said.
Asked on Monday about the outcry, Carney stood his ground.
The speech credited "the resilience of the French-speaking people" with Canada's creation, "a Canada that recognizes two founding peoples and, after a certain period of time, three founding peoples, including Indigenous people," he said during an announcement in Ottawa.
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Liberals, Bloc, NDP gang up to defeat Conservatives' "Canadian economic sovereignty" motion
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As promised by Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre in his open letter to the prime minister last week, his party is poised to launch a day-long debate — and, ultimately, a vote — on their call for the government to “immediately introduce a Canada Sovereignty Act that re-establishes Canada as a competitive resource-producing nation by repealing federal measures that block or penalize development,” including the Impact Assessment Act and the Oil Tanker Moratorium Act, along with the federal industrial carbon tax, oil and gas emissions cap, e-vehicle sales mandate and “plastics manufacturing prohibitions.”
The proposed legislation — an earlier version of which was initially unveiled by Poilievre last summer, accompanied by a pledge to bring forward a motion to adopt it “at the earliest opportunity,” but failed to make it onto the floor of the House of Commons — would also include measures that “reward provinces, businesses, and workers who build and invest in Canada,” including the Canada First Reinvestment Tax Cut, as well as other measures lifted directly from the Conservative campaign platform.
The non-binding motion, which stands in the name of veteran Conservative MP Shannon Stubbs, seems unlikely to pass without the backing of the government, as it includes measures that neither the Bloc Québécois nor the New Democrats would be prepared to support.
As per his itinerary, Prime Minister Mark Carney will also be back in his front-and-centre seat in the chamber to face his opposition adversaries for the first time since December. (2 p.m.)
He’ll also hold a morning huddle with his ministers — and, later, host a tête-à-tête with Nunavut premier John Main before meeting with Team Canada Olympic hockey players.
Also on the radar: Industry Minister Mélanie Joly is booked in for an afternoon appearance at the PUBLIC SAFETY AND NATIONAL SECURITY committee as MPs circle back to the government’s bid to overhaul Canada’s current cyber security framework. (3:30 p.m.)
Elsewhere on the committee circuit: Interim Parliamentary Budget Officer Jason Jacques heads to GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS AND ESTIMATES to provide more details on his newly-released analysis of Champagne’s budget, which crunched the numbers and concluded that, “of the $285 billion in federal spending (cash basis) to support $1 trillion in total investment, only $41.3 billion represents new measures introduced in Budget 2025, while $243.7 billion is associated with planned spending that was in place prior to the budget.” (3:30 p.m.)
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New Conservative campaign manager Steve Outhouse made calls to both premiers' offices in December
The federal Conservative Party is seeking to make amends with some provincial leaders after tensions with both Ontario and Nova Scotia's Progressive Conservative premiers played out in public last year, sources say.
In December, Pierre Poilievre's new campaign manager, Steve Outhouse, reached out to both Tim Houston and Doug Ford's offices in an effort to turn the page on a fractious period where both premiers were publicly criticizing Poilievre's Conservatives.
Sources say making these calls was identified as a "priority" and that Outhouse — who officially started his job on Dec. 1 — was considered a strong potential peacemaker in part because he has good relationships with people inside both of Houston and Ford's offices.
The sources say the calls centred on highlighting that Poilievre's team is interested in having a relationship with the provincial parties, and that they want to do whatever they can to work together.
Poilievre says MPs defecting from Conservatives 'a problem of Mark Carney's leadership'Three provincial and federal sources spoke to CBC News about the outreach effort. CBC News agreed to not name the sources because they are not authorized to speak publicly about internal party matters.
Two sources say there's a desire on all sides to move on.
In a statement, Outhouse says he believes unifying Conservatives across the country is key to winning the next federal election.
"As an Atlantic Canadian who has worked on campaigns across the country, I have a great respect for all parts of our conservative voter coalition. Each part has its strengths, and I am looking forward to working with all parts of the conservative movement to win the next election — whenever that is," he said.
Steve Outhouse, seen here in 2024, is the federal Conservative Party's new campaign manager. (Alix Villeneuve/CBC)Outhouse, who is from Nova Scotia, will be attending the provincial Progressive Conservative (PC) annual general meeting in February, and has reached out to other provincial PC or Conservative teams across the country.
He has recent experience running campaigns in Newfoundland and Labrador, Alberta and New Brunswick, and in Conservative MP Leslyn Lewis's 2020 and 2022 federal leadership bids.
Turning the page on 2025
The strained relationship between Poilievre's team and the two premiers was on display before, during and after the last federal election.
In Ontario, tensions were already simmering by the time the federal campaign started. Per a report in the Toronto Star, Poilievre allegedly congratulated Ford on his February re-election — weeks after it happened.
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Leader Pierre Poilievre addresses supporters after losing the federal
election last April. Tensions between Poilievre's team and provincial
conservative governments surfaced during the campaign. (Chris Young/The Canadian Press)Ford's team accused the federal party of withholding resources and support during the provincial election, and Ford responded by saying his party was "too swamped" to help the federal Conservative campaign in their spring election.
In contrast, Ford hosted Liberal Leader Mark Carney for a breakfast meeting (and photo op) in Etobicoke in the days before the election campaign. Ford also publicly criticized the Conservatives' campaign strategy.
Houston confirmed tensions between his office and Poilievre's former chief adviser, Jenni Byrne, last spring.
"After four consecutive losses to the Liberal Party, I think it's time for them to do some soul-searching," said Houston.
He accused the federal Conservatives of being "great at pushing people away and not so good at pulling people in."
Ongoing charm offensive
Since the 2025 election, sources say Poilievre's team has sought to make inroads in repairing relationships. Efforts to speak to Ford's team date back to last May.
In recent months, Poilievre has publicly supported the Ontario premier. Earlier this week, he sided with Ford's position that Canada must not drop a 100 per cent tariff on Chinese electric vehicles.
When Ford was facing criticism over running an anti-tariff ad that prompted U.S. President Donald Trump to abruptly end trade talks, Poilievre defended the premier, saying Ford was stepping up to fill a leadership void left by the prime minister.
Poilievre's efforts to shore up friendships also include outreach to former leadership rival Patrick Brown, with whom the Conservative leader met last September. Earlier this week, Poilievre put a spotlight on a Toronto Star op-ed decrying extortion threats in Peel Region, written by Brown.
It's unclear whether Poilievre's courting is having any effect. Neither premiers' office responded to a request for comment.
Poilievre will face a leadership review later this month in Calgary at the party's convention.
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Pierre Poilievre sails through leadership review as Conservatives deliver a strong endorsement
More than 87% of party delegates endorse Poilievre's continued leadership
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre pulled in an overwhelming share of the vote in his leadership review held Friday night, a sign that the vast majority of party members are united behind his leadership.
Roughly 87 per cent of the delegates on hand in Calgary for the party's convention voted to stick with Poilievre as leader — a figure that is higher than what former prime minister Stephen Harper achieved at his own leadership review back in 2005, after he also lost his first election to a Liberal.
A result less than the 84 per cent Harper won at that review would have prompted questions about Poilievre's viability. But with such a strong showing, there can be no doubt about how Conservatives feel about his job at the top.
Steve Outhouse, Poilievre's new campaign manager, told CBC News that the result is better than some Conservatives had expected and that it sends a strong signal about the direction of the party.
"That's a really clear mandate from our membership, and now we can focus on getting ready for the election, whenever that will be," Outhouse said. "It's a big boost to his leadership. It's very gratifying."
Rocky year for Poilievre and his party
Party members looked past a rocky year for Poilievre and the Conservative movement in Canada. He blew a 20-point polling lead heading into the last general election in April and lost to Prime Minister Mark Carney, a political newcomer.
He also went down to defeat in his own Ottawa-area seat and only got back into Parliament by decamping to one of the safest Conservative ridings in the country in Alberta.
Three MPs have bristled at his leadership style and defected to the Liberals or announced their resignation. Polls suggest Poilievre's favourability ratings among Canadians are at their lowest point ever and that Carney's Liberals are leading in most surveys.
'Conservatives see you,' Poilievre talks about 'unseen' work in key speech focused on affordabilityStill, party members decided it was better to stick with the leader they know.
The absence of any viable contender for the top job and a unified parliamentary caucus — at least in public — also helped Poilievre secure the title and the chance to take on Carney again, whenever the next federal election comes around.
"I didn't think anybody would beat Stephen Harper," former deputy leader Lisa Raitt said of Poilievre's favourable vote share. "He has an iron grip on the party."
While Poilievre has secured his place among the membership, there was a pervasive fear among delegates in Calgary that there could be another floor-crossing.
Another MP joining Carney's team — plus a Liberal byelection win in Chrystia Freeland's former Toronto-area seat she recently vacated — would deliver a majority government and possibly leave the Conservatives on the Opposition benches for years.
Outhouse said Poilievre and his team are still alert to that possibility.
"Politics is an unpredictable world," he said. "But we're ready now to work with any member of the Conservative Party who wants to focus on winning the next election."
As for the path forward, Outhouse said Poilievre will be travelling the country, holding town halls and meeting with more young people as he tries to reach out to prospective voters.
Poilievre draws cheers as he speaks of family, meaning — and why he keeps goingSpeaking to delegates early Saturday morning, Poilievre's wife, Anaida, who was billed as the party's "first lady," called her husband's vote share an "amazing result."
MP Leslyn Lewis said it's a sign that members have embraced party unity.
If there's an early election, "we will be ready," Lewis said. "Ready because we have the right vision for this country, and Canada desperately needs Pierre Poilievre to become the next prime minister of this great nation."
'Slings and arrows' of leadership
Poilievre delivered a rousing speech on Friday just before most delegates cast their ballots.
While he leaned on familiar themes and deployed some of the same lines he used during the last election campaign, Poilievre also signalled something of a tonal shift — presenting a sunnier disposition throughout and staying away from the sloganeering that was a staple of his past political rhetoric.
Poilievre also spoke about the struggles of being a leader — facing the "slings and arrows" and spending long stretches away from his family — but he said the sacrifice was worth it to help restore what he called "the Canadian promise" for young people who feel the country has gone adrift.
He also invoked his daughter, Valentina, who is autistic. He said hearing her speak for the first time is something that inspires him to "keep on fighting through the hardship."
Supporters
cheer for Poilievre at the Conservative Party of Canada's national
convention before party delegates vote on the future of his leadership,
in Calgary on Friday. (Jennifer Gauthier/Reuters)Poilievre — who made a political name for himself by saying "Canada is broken" and blaming the Liberals for ruining the country — focused on more patriotic rhetoric and invoked Canadian greatness in his remarks.
He spoke of the workers who drove in the spikes to build the Canadian Pacific Railway and unite the country, and the soldiers who endured the horrors of trench warfare in the First World War.
He drew a parallel between that determination to build a seemingly impossible railway through unfriendly terrain or finish the fight in a gruelling war to his commitment to stay on as leader and finish what he started, despite the obstacles.
"Only Canadians could carve the world’s best country out of a big, cold, vast land. Because we never give up. We never back down. We never run away," he said.
"We stand united tonight, together, always, because this country, its people and promise are worth fighting for."
And while Poilievre faced criticism from some people within his own party for essentially ignoring U.S. President Donald Trump and his threats in the last federal election, the leader made no mention of him by name.
He did call Trump's tariffs "unfair and unresolved," and he said Canada must be "united and strong" and "bow before no nation" — but it was evident Poilievre is reluctant to make that fight a central plank of his leadership.
Instead, he signalled he wants to lean into the issues he champions that resonate with voters anxious about other things, namely the cost of living and crime.
Raitt, the party's former deputy leader, said that focus on domestic "bread and butter" issues while Carney is consumed with foreign policy could pay off in the long run.
"Trump is not going to be top of mind forever. At some point, the day-to-day kind of things that people are going through, that's where Mr. Poilievre is building a lead over the prime minister."
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However the newly-released analysis of Champagne’s Budget 2025 by Interim Parliamentary Budget Officer Jason Jacques should inspire many Canadians to doubt the integrity of any opposition member who would support such budget. EH???
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