Prime Minister Mark Carney during a news conference in Ottawa on July 30. Photo by Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press files
Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canada will look for opportunities to remove some counter-tariffs against the United States , despite winning an election in which he pledged to fight back against U.S. President Donald Trump ’s trade war .
Carney said it’s because he wants to maximize the impacts of retaliatory tariffs on the U.S. but minimize the pain for Canadian businesses.
“We don’t automatically adjust; we look at what we can do for our industry that’s most effective,” Carney said in West Kelowna, British Columbia. “In some cases, that will be to remove tariffs. We have removed some tariffs over time so that, for example, the auto industry can function mo