Hours after he won a remarkable election campaign in April, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a stark warning about how the country’s neighbour and closest ally was becoming its greatest threat.
“America wants our land, our resources, our water, our country,” he said to raucous cheers. “President Trump is trying to break us so that America can own us. That will never ever happen.”
Carney’s response is beginning to take shape. Facing the Trump administration’s tariffs and jibes about Canada becoming the 51st US state, the prime minister is trying to put in place a new model that would reduce dependence on the US and reimagine the economic geography of the country.