A week after the latest deadline to somehow resolve the trade war that Donald Trump has launched against Canada — and with Canadian officials now looking ahead to a full renegotiation of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement — many things remain unclear.
But when Mark Carney spoke to reporters in British Columbia on Tuesday, he expressed clarity about at least one thing.
"While we'll continue to work with the United States on the many mutually beneficial opportunities that we share in trade and investment," the prime minister said, "it is clear that we cannot count, or fully rely, on what has been our most-valued trading relationship, for our prosperity."
Such comments follow from Carney's insistence in March that Canada's "old relationship" with the United States was "over." And it rema