PM Carney - I meant what I said in Davos
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-denies-walking-back-davos-speech-9.7062599
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said he spoke to President Trump and told him he stands by his remarks last week issuing a call-to-arms among smaller powers against economic coercion.
This marks the latest uptick in trade tensions between Ottawa and Washington just as U.S. officials prepare a formal review of the North American trade treaty that Canada relies on to ship exports to the U.S. on a largely duty-free basis.
Carney’s speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, didn’t identify the U.S. or Trump, but was widely interpreted as a rebuke to Trump’s policies on using American economic and military might to achieve geopolitical goals. The remarks offered a template for countries on countering this pressure.
“To be absolutely clear, and I said this to the president: ‘I meant what I said in Davos,’” Carney said Tuesday about his 30-minute conversation with Trump. “It was a broader set of issues, and Canada was the first country to understand the change in U.S. trade policy that he initiated, and we’re responding to that.”