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THE EREA OF deep ties between Canada and the United States “is over,” new prime minister Mark Carney has said, after US president Donald Trump announced steep auto tariffs.
Carney said that Canada’s “retaliatory” response to Trump will have “maximum impact” in the United States, with the former Bank of England governor promising the overall stance is “to fight, is to protect, is to build” in an address yesterday.
Trump’s planned 25 percent levy on vehicle imports to the United States is to come into force next week and could be devastating for a Canadian auto industry that supports an estimated 500,000 jobs.
After Trump’s announcement, Carney paused his campaign ahead of Canada’s 28 April election to return to Ottawa for a meeting of cabinet members working on tactics in the trade war with the United States.
He called Trump’s auto tariffs “unjustified,” and said they were in breach of existing trade deals between the countries.
World leaders are grappling with how to react to Trump’s barrage of tariffs, with Ireland’s finance minister Paschal Donohoe cautioning last night that any response from the EU must create “incentives for negotiation” for the White House.
Yesterday, Carney warned Canadians that Trump had permanently altered relations with the United States and that, regardless of any future trade deals, there would be “no turning back.”
The old relationship we had with the United States based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation is over.
He said Canada would retaliate against the auto tariffs.
“Our response to these latest tariffs is to fight, is to protect, is to build,” Carney said.
“We will fight the US tariffs with retaliatory trade actions of our own that will have maximum impact in the United States and minimum impacts here in Canada,” he added.
Carney replaced Justin Trudeau as prime minister on March 14.
Typically, a new Canadian leader makes a phone call with the US president a priority immediately after taking office but Trump and Carney have not spoken.
He said last night that the White House had reached out to schedule a call and that he expected to speak to Trump in the “next day or two.”
Carney has also said that while he is willing to talk to Trump, he will not participate in substantive trade negotiations with Washington until the president shows Canada “respect,” particularly by ending his repeated annexation threats.
“For me, there are two conditions, not necessarily for a call, but a negotiation with the United States. First Respect, respect for our sovereignty as a country… apparently it’s a lot for him,” Carney said.
“There has to be comprehensive discussion between the two of us, including with respect to our economy and our security,” he added.
With reporting by – © AFP 2025
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Every time I read a story like this, I feel like I’m a step closer to finally ditching apple.
What’s keeping you?
The fact that, as it stands, apple are putting out some of the best phones on the market. But they’re crazy expensive and restrictive. It looks like the competition are catching up to them, which is a good thing. I hinted at this in my post. You must have missed it.
On the negative side it’ll cost about 1200 euro pay as you go and have two hours battery life…. You all must buy now…!
In fairness to Sony they have gotten their act together the last few years and have some tasty gear now a days. They’d remind you of an ex girlfriend who keeps walking past your work place trying to get your attention wearing a sexy black dress equipped with a new boob job. Pretty damn tempting to go for …!
In fairness the high end HTC, Samsung’s etc. easily compete with the iPhone
Apple is cra*, I’ll never have one again. Samsung all the way
I’m getting fed up with apple, my 2 year old 4S won’t even last a day on a full charge. The only thing that is keeps me with them is all the apps I’ve purchased, if only they were transferable to android.
“The fact that, as it stands, apple are putting out some of the best phones on the market.”
This may have been true 4, or so, years ago, with the exception of build quality their phones are currently way behind their counterparts.
Same! Had iPhone for two years, now I have my beloved Samsung! IPhone overrated, over priced and i’m over it! :)
Also like sony products it can’t possibly last, and it’ll be high maintenance.
I was always an Apple man for years… switched to Samsung and never looked back….
Way more options and better specs!
Sheep signing up to an iTunes restricted device
I love my Z1. It’s the first no apple phone I’ve had in years and I will never go back.
This is my next phone. Absolute class piece of kit!!
“4K resolution, a similar quality to what you would get on HD TVs”
No it’s not. 4K is approximately four times the quality you’d get on a HD TV (1080p). 4k is similar to 35mm film quality.
that last sentence isn’t really true either. Film for the most part film has better dynamic range than digital (save one or two really high end cameras). 4k would have much better resolution than 35mm. However caparison to hd wouldn’t be too inaccurate as You literally have to stand in front of the screen to notice the difference. The real advantage of 4k is that there is more colour space, meaning that there is more room for colour grading of footage and better colour rendition in general. man I’m a geek :-/
Right there with you in geekdom. Was trying to make a reference comparison (but doing it badly)
Annnnnnnddddddd… now it’s been corrected & I look like a dick.
Hardly news…..the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 has been on the market for quite a while…. it also shoots 4k video
It’ also a hideous piece of plastic.
About the only bad thing to throw at the note 3…it’s easily the best phone ever made… The powerful hardware and screen size more than compensate for its body material.They have to keep the price down somehow.
I got a free Note 3 with 32gb memory…
Happy out once I got a good case for it….
My problem with that Sony Z2 is that it’s nearly the same size as the note but the screen is good bit smaller and I think it’s base is gona be the 16gb which doesn’t cut it anymore
Xperias are more trouble than they’re worth…
You will just have to stop dropping them Erica.
Okay, but that’s not the reason they give trouble haha
With 4K image resolution just imagine the mirror selfie possibilities
Hahaha :P
You would need to attach several external hardrives to take advantage to the full ultra hd file size,
And you’ll get about twenty second recording time on full had due to a crap battery.
*hd, not had.
I wish more emphasis was put on manufacturers not using child labour and conflict materials and protecting our privacy. These are much more interesting phones as far as I’m concerned: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2014/01/a-phone-for-the-age-of-snowden.html and http://www.fairphone.com/
They’re lucky to have jobs, Kevin
Does anyone have any ideas for a good phone that has a good battery life(24 hours), put up with a good bit of dust(I don’t mind buying a cover) and may be used in the rain occasionally. Something that will last the life of a contract. Thanks in advance
Sounds like you need the old Nokia’s, my brother still gets them as his often ends up under tractor wheels and in 3 foot of mud!
Ah yes, I once threw one 70feet across the workshop(i swear I don’t have a temper but an incompetent co worker drove me to it) I simply put in the battery and made another phone call. Unfortunately they weren’t great for email, maybe I could convince everyone not to use email for work, I’d actually prefer that.
Nice one, hopefully this impending release will lower the cost of the Z1 Compact.
Could have used one of these in gansbaai a couple weeks back.
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