Poilievre's letter to Carney: 'No more caving' to U.S. demands in trade, tariff talks
Canadian Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has criticized the government's approach to trade negotiations with the U.S., urging an end to concessions on tariffs and trade deals. He argues that current policies are harming Canadian manufacturing and failing to secure favorable terms.
Why it matters
The letter underscores the political tension in Canada regarding trade strategy and economic sovereignty in the face of U.S. protectionist policies.
In a letter to Carney that was shared with reporters, Poilievre and his Canada-U.S. relations critic, Shuvaloy Majumdar, said Ottawa has given in to several of Trump's demands in the last year.
The pair cited scrapping the digital service tax, removing Canada's counter-tariffs and cutting the United States into a deal to share net toll revenue from the recently opened Gordie Howe International Bridge connecting Windsor, Ont., and Detroit, Mich.
Poilievre and Majumdar argued against Carney's previous claim that no deal is better than a bad deal by pointing to job losses in manufacturing-heavy Canadian cities that rely on cross-border supply chains.
"For the past year and a half, you have backed down to one American demand after another while getting nothing in return, with concession after concession," Poilievre tells Carney in the letter.
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