'I reject any attempt to weaken Canada': PM Carney responds to Trump auto tariffs

We will never be the 51st state, but we can, once again, be friends with the United States if the president reverses course on these disastrous tariff threats,

Poilievre said

Many Canadians are now flat-out scared, and they may believe that voting in this election can put in power those who are best positioned to protect Canada,

Perrella said

We will fight the U.S. tariffs with retaliatory trade actions of our own that will have maximum impact in the United States and minimum impacts here in Canada,

Carney said

This is a direct attack, to be clear, a direct attack on the very workers that I stood in front of, Unifor workers I stood in front of this morning at the Ambassador Bridge, a bridge that is a symbol and a reality up until now, of the tight ties between our two countries — ties of kinship, ties of commerce, ties that are in the process of being broken,

Carney said

His credentials as an economist may not matter in a campaign's demands to respond quickly to hostile and acrimonious attacks,

Perrella said

Trudeau was the one target that helped maintain the Conservative lead in the polls,

Perrella said

It is clear that the United States is no longer a reliable partner. It is possible the negotiations that, with comprehensive negotiations, we will be able to restore some trust, but there will be no turning back,

Carney said

Many disaffected Liberals appear to be returning, with some regions showing a rebound to previous levels, especially in places like Atlantic Canada,

Perrella said

I appreciate this opportunity to discuss how we can protect our workers and build our economies,

Carney said from Parliament Hill

This means jobs lost, increased input costs and pressure on the balance sheets of companies large and small,

said Stevens Jr., who represents the automobile sector in Michigan

Now those numbers and the jobs and the paychecks that depend on that are in question,

Carney said

This is not an industry that is Donald Trump’s to steal or take,

said Lana Payne, the National President of Unifor, the union that represents auto workers in Canada

There was always talk of an earlier election call, for a variety of reasons,

said Andrea Perrella, an associate professor of political science at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario

We will defend our workers. We'll defend our companies. We'll defend our country. And we'll defend it together,

said Carney, who has made standing up to Trump the foundation of his campaign for the April 28 elections

A lot of the automobiles that are manufactured here in Ontario have 50, 60 per cent parts from the U.S.,

Ford said

He wants to break us so America can own us,

Carney said

We have anticipated this possibility,

he was quoted as saying

His trade war is hurting American consumers and workers and it will hurt more. I see that American consumer confidence is at a multi-year low,

Carney said earlier while campaigning in Windsor, Ontario ahead of Canada's April 28 election

The old relationship we had with the United States based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation is over,

Carney said at a news conference

This will hurt us, but through this period, by being together, we will emerge stronger,

he said in an address