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TURNER: Steady Hands in a Trade Storm -- How Mark Carney’s focus on what Canada controls helped the country weather U.S. tariffs without folding

Mark Carney and Wilbur Turner, Kelowna, BC February 2025

“In a crisis, plan beats no plan. We have a plan for Canada that is going to deliver the strongest economy and ride out the Americans until they come back to the table,” Mark Carney said during a leadership campaign stop in Kelowna on February 12, 2025. 

Watching the erratic behaviour of the U.S. president toward Canada since then, I keep coming back to those words I heard Carney speak that day when I met him in Kelowna.

When the United States imposed sweeping tariffs on Canadian goods in 2025, the political temptation would have been to respond to every provocation coming out of Washington. President Donald Trump repeatedly framed the trade dispute as leverage, openly speculating that Canada would eventually fold or be better off as a U.S. state. Mark Carney took a different approach. Rather than chasing every headline or reacting to each rhetorical escalation, his government returned to a consistent message. We are going to focus on what we have control over.

That framing has defined Canada’s response to the trade war ...

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