Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney called for a “new partnership” with the United States to “help make America great again,” in a speech delivered in New York on Thursday.
Carney said that while the world is undergoing a “rupture” as the US transforms its commercial relationships, working closely with Canada in specific sectors, including aluminum, automobiles and critical minerals, would strengthen both countries.
Amid an ongoing trade war with the US, Carney has vowed to double Canadian exports to other markets in the next decade and signed more than 20 economic and security deals in the last year.
As Carney spoke in New York, US trade officials were in Mexico City in talks with officials there about overhauling the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement on trade. The discussions for now exclude Canada.
After President Donald Trump’s threats to annex Canada as the 51st state, Carney described Canada’s ties to the US as “weaknesses we must correct” and said the US had fundamentally changed its approach to trade, raising tariffs to levels last seen during the Great Depression.
