Trump’s team blew it bad with Canada last week.
Mark Carney Calls BS
It was looking like the Trump 2.0 regime and Canada were about to finalize a trade deal — something they’d been working on since Trump declared “Liberation Day” in April 2025 and declared a trade war on the entire planet.
The Canadians apparently thought a deal was nearly done and then it wasn’t, per Fox News:
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney accused the United States on Saturday of making a last-minute “power play” by trying to restrict Canada’s ability to strike trade deals with other countries, offering new details about what he said caused negotiations between the two sides to collapse.
Carney said the U.S. introduced new demands in the final hours of negotiations involving Canada’s other trading relationships, its auto sector and protections for Canadian culture and the French language.
“The U.S. introduced at the last hours, in the last hour, efforts to restrict our ability to have other trade deals,” Carney told reporters.
Asked what he believed the U.S. was trying to accomplish, Carney responded, “It’s a power play. It’s a power play and, you know, [it] becomes a question of sovereignty.”
Here are Carney’s full remarks which are well worth watching because this is world-historic stuff and for all of Carney’s limitations, he has been the sole chief executive of a US ally/NATO member/5 eyes state to really stand up to Trump:
Read the rest at Naked Capitalism.