Prime Minister Mark Carney Asked How Long It Could Take For Trump To Lift Tariffs On Canada

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney held a press briefing on Tuesday, where he was asked about tariffs on Canada.

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00:00Good afternoon, Prime Minister. Ashley Burke, CBC News.

00:04What specifically did you say to President Trump about lifting tariffs on Canada?

00:09And based on your conversations, what do you think it would take to get those tariffs lifted, and how long could it take?

00:14Well, I can't answer the second part of your question, because we don't make that decision.

00:19But certainly press the case in a number of areas where we think the tariffs should be lifted.

00:27And specifically, I'll give an example with respect to the scourge of fentanyl and the considerable efforts that have been made at our border,

00:38and behind the border in terms of raids as well.

00:42Huge investments in border personnel, in drone surveillance, Blackhawk surveillance.

00:48And then those are being reinforced, as you would have seen during the campaign,

00:55commitments to another 2,000, in effect, 1,000 border guards through CBSA, another 1,000 RCMP, further efforts there.

01:04And what we're seeing is huge results for this.

01:08Canada's contribution to this problem, cross-border problem, was always very small, but it's down by over 90 percent with the efforts.

01:16And it is an absolute focus of the government.

01:19So that is an example of where we would see the case being very strong for the tariffs to be removed.

01:26We've made that case. We'll see where that goes.

01:29In other areas, the tariffs are, in our view, not in the interests of American competitiveness and jobs.

01:39We have more work to do on making those cases on that. Thank you.