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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Tuesday that the country strongly opposed any tariffs being imposed by the U.S. to further President Donald Trump's aim of acquiring Greenland.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has arrived in Beijing, aiming to repair relations with China. It's the first visit by a Canadian leader to China in nearly a decade.
For most of his career, Mark Carney was the polished face of global cooperation, but on Tuesday at WEF 2026, that tone vanished. Less than a year into his term as Canada’s prime minister, Carney delivered a blunt assessment of global power politics: “the strong do what they can,
Prime Minister Mark Carney got a standing ovation in Davos for starkly describing the end of Pax Americana. He is looking for new allies to help his country survive it.
China responded by imposing duties of 100% on Canadian canola oil and meal and 25% on pork and seafood. It added a 75.8% tariff on canola seeds last August. Collectively, the import taxes effectively closed the Chinese market to Canadian canola exports, an industry group said.
President Trump took a direct shot at Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, arguing in his Davos address that a U.S. acquisition of Greenland would benefit Canada, which he said “gets a lot of freebies.
We stand firmly with Greenland and Denmark,’ says Mark Carney, also condemning use of tariffs, supply chains as geopolitical weapons - Anadolu Ajansı