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Prime minister praised for rejecting US trade proposal as Trump shows little interest in retreating from dispute
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World — Leyland Cecco in Toronto
Prime minister praised for rejecting US trade proposal as Trump shows little interest in retreating from dispute
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Mark Carney said on Monday that while American negotiators saw the French language in Canada as an “irritant … in Quebec, these are rights,” days after receiving widespread praise from political leaders for rejecting a US trade proposal that many perceived as weakening the country’s Francophone culture.
The prime minister’s remarks came hours after the US president, Donald Trump, showed little interest in retreating from the spat, posting on social media that Canada had been “ripping off the United States of America for years” and threatening a swath of new, economically devastating tariffs on cars and trucks.
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Source: The Guardian · Leyland Cecco in Toronto. Published 24 Aug 2026, 06:22 pm.
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