New threat from Trump: Carney summons his office for an emergency meeting on Tuesday

Mark Carney will summon his ministers to a meeting next Tuesday, and another with the provincial primary ones on July 22, to take stock of negotiations with the United States after the new threat of Donald Trump.

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The Prime Minister’s office announced it in the morning on Friday.

Thursday evening, Donald Trump broadcast a letter addressed directly to Mark Carney in which he threatens Canada with customs duties of 35% on all imports.

The Republican President wants it in Canada to have implemented customs duties on American consumer products as a response to his own prices.

“Instead of working with the United States, Canada retreated with its own customs rights. From 1^is August 2025, we will apply 35% customs duties in Canada to Canadian products exported to the United States, “he wrote in his letter addressed to Mark Carney.

This umpteenth threat occurs even though the two countries are negotiating intensely to reach a new agreement encompassing trade and security.

Mr. Carney wanted to conclude a new overall understanding before Canada Day, 1^is July. This date had been postponed to mid-July and, today, the new “revised deadline” for the end of the negotiations is provided for the 1^is august.

The biggest union in the country, Unifor, asks the Carney government to consider a “hard response”.

“We must never fall into the sign,” said Laura Payne. “It is not negotiation, it is coercion. We will not be satisfied with a future where Canadian jobs will be taken hostage by the United States. ”

In his missive, Trump has further pointed out finger trafficking as one of the reasons justifying his aggressive attitude towards Canada.

This pretext is precisely perceived such by Ottawa which called a “fentanyl tsar” and invested more than a billion dollars to strengthen the border, even if less than 1% of fentanyl in the United States arrives through Canada.