Mark Carney Vows Canada’s Strong and Deliberate Response to U.S. Tariffs

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00:00Thank you, thank you Terry.

00:08President Trump is in the process of trying to fundamentally restructure the U.S. economy

00:14and that means that our economy here needs to change dramatically as well.

00:20And as I made clear to President Trump in our call last week, I will reject, I will

00:26reject all attempts to weaken Canada, all attempts to wear us down, to break us down

00:33so that America can own us.

00:37As you know, I spoke with the President last week.

00:39We had a very constructive, very productive conversation.

00:43Part of that conversation included a commitment, two commitments.

00:48The first was that after the election, the Government of Canada and the Government of

00:55the United States President and the next Prime Minister, which I hope will be me, I'm working

01:01hard every day to be that person, but we will sit down, those individuals will sit down

01:07and begin comprehensive negotiations, that's the first thing.

01:10The second thing we agreed was that our principals, our ministers would be in close contact during

01:21this period, and that is the case.

01:25Minister LeBlanc has been in contact with Secretary Lutnick, Secretary of Commerce Lutnick.

01:31That is a regular, ongoing conversation.

01:35As I also mentioned to the President and was very clear, we will respond to additional

01:43measures, so we will put in place retaliatory measures if there are additional measures

01:49put against Canada tomorrow.

01:53We are going to be very deliberate in terms of the measures we take to fight for Canada,

02:01to fight against these unjustified measures by the U.S. administration, but also to protect,

02:06to have that minimal impact in Canada.

02:09We will not disadvantage Canadian producers and Canadian workers relative to American

02:14workers.

02:16So there are measures that we can take that at a minimum level the playing field with

02:21the United States, and again it depends on the broader measures they take tomorrow if

02:25indeed they do against Canada.

02:28Merci beaucoup.