Carney Holds Back on Retaliation, Says US Talks Progressing (1)

Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canada and the US are in “intensive” talks about the countries’ trade relationship, explaining his government’s decision not to respond yet to the Trump administration’s doubling of steel and aluminum tariffs.

“Those discussions are progressing,” the Canadian leader told reporters Wednesday morning in Ottawa. The government will take time to consider what it will do in reaction to the US move to hike tariffs on foreign-produced metals to 50%, he said.

But if the negotiations with the US fail, the government plans to retaliate, Carney said in the House of Commons.

Dominic LeBlanc, the ...