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Canada\u2019s prime minister, Mark Carney has called for a new relationship with the United States to \u201chelp make America great again\u201d.<\/p>\n
In a speech delivered in New York on Thursday, Carney said that there should be a \u201ctrue partnership\u201d that reimagines cooperation in specific sectors challenged by global competition.<\/p>\n
He made the remarks ahead of the mandatory review of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) in July.<\/p>\n
Carney said Canada was diversifying away from the US and signing trade deals with dozens of countries around the world.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur core objective across these partnerships is to increase our strategic autonomy. Because we live in a world where integration has been weaponised. Because a country that cannot feed, fuel or defend itself is not truly sovereign,\u201d Carney said.<\/p>\n
Donald Trump\u2019s actions \u2013 including launching a trade war and suggesting Canada become the 51st US state \u2013 have infuriated Canadians and created the political environment for Carney to win the job of prime minister after promising to confront Trump.<\/p>\n
The Canadian prime minister has emerged as a spokesperson for a movement of countries looking to find ways to link up and counter the US under Trump. Carney has set a goal for Canada to double its non-US exports in the next decade, saying US tariffs are causing a chill in investment.<\/p>\n
\u201cCanada strong will help make America great again. The examples are legion where we should work together and compete with the world together. And to those ends, we have made specific, practical proposals to the US administration,\u201d Carney said.<\/p>\n
Canada has been protected by the heaviest impact of Trump\u2019s tariffs by the USMCA, but that trade agreement is up for a review and key sectors like aluminum and steel have been hit hard by tariffs.<\/p>\n
Carney noted that Canadian aluminum exports to the US were the energy equivalent of 10 Hoover dams and that it didn\u2019t make sense to replace Canada.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith America\u2019s growing energy needs, does it make sense to build the gigawatts needed to replace Canada?\u201d Carney said.<\/p>\n
He also noted that on automobiles, Canada was the US\u2019s biggest customer, and \u201can integrated North American market for production is the best and most durable way to confront intense global competition\u201d.<\/p>\n
Carney also said on critical minerals, with its vast reserves of potash, nickel, copper and uranium, Canada could be the most reliable supplier that the US needs to put affordable food on the table, to strengthen its national defence and meet soaring demand to power AI.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt a time of a global energy crisis, Canada provides the United States with the reliable power and critical minerals that help fuel American growth: 99% of US natural gas imports, 85% of electricity imports and 60% of crude oil imports,\u201d Carney said.<\/p>\n
Carney said Canada was the US\u2019s largest customer, buying more goods than China, Japan and the Germany combined.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know that, when Canada and the United States have had our differences over the years, we have always \u2013 eventually \u2013 worked through them, because our shared values and common interests run deep. They run through our economies,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
After Trump\u2019s threats to annex Canada as the 51st state, Carney described Canada\u2019s ties to the US as \u201cweaknesses we must correct\u201d and said the US had fundamentally changed its approach to trade, raising tariffs to levels last seen during the Great Depression. In January, Carney referred to \u201cAmerican hegemony\u201d in a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, saying that greater integration with great powers created \u201cvulnerabilities to be exploited\u201d.<\/p>\n
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