OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney said his government will take “some time but not much” to respond to U.S. President Donald Trump’s 50 per cent tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum that came into force today.

“The latest tariffs on steel and aluminum are unjustified, they’re illegal, they’re bad for American workers, bad for American industry, and of course for Canadian industry as well,” he told reporters Wednesday morning as he was entering his caucus meeting.

Carney said Canada currently has counter-tariffs in a gross amount, before remissions, on over $90 billion of U.S. imports, and said those remain in place. But given the devastating impacts these new tariffs will have on Canadian industries, there is pressure to retaliate.

“We are in intensive discussions right now with th

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