With that, here’s a quick recap of how the Liberal and Conservative leaders responded to the continuing fallout from Trump’s auto tariffs.
Carney will be speaking with Trump over the phone in the coming days. The Liberal leader said Canada would retaliate with “maximum impacts on the U.S.” and minimum impacts on Canada.
Carney said he wanted to build “strength here at home” by reducing bureaucracy and speeding up investment. He touted what seemed like a new slogan: “Canada strong, Canada free, Canada forever.”
Poilievre also spoke about strength. He said he would “put Canada first for a change by axing taxes, greenlighting resource projects [and] bringing home our investment in jobs so that we’re strong enough to stand up for ourselves against the American threats.”
The Conservative leader said the Liberals had weakened the economy and that Carney wants “Canadians to blindly trust him” despite not revealing what is in the blind trust he moved his assets into to avoid conflicts of interest.
