‘Canada strong will help make America great again’ PM Carney tells NYC business crowd

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Employing U.S. President Donald Trump’s marquee slogan, Prime Minister Mark Carney told a New York City business crowd “Canada strong will help make America great again.”

Speaking at the Economic Club of New York, the prime minister detailed his economic diversification strategy, and his plans to recalibrate Canada’s relationships and reputation.

“We’re focused on what we can control, and that means weaving a dense web of international partnerships abroad. That’s making us a much stronger, more resilient, more independent country,” Carney told the business crowd.

Touting some key areas where the federal Liberals have made progress, Carney sought to make the case for why Canada and the U.S. should continue to co-operate in key sectors.

“Above all, as you would expect, we’re focused on things that are good for Canada. This is good for all Canadians, but it’s also good for the United States,” the prime minister said. “Because a stronger Canada is a better ally.”

Describing Canada’s efforts to become more autonomous as a “core” objective of his government, Carney also played on how continuously integrated the Canadian and American markets are despite Trump’s trade war and sectoral tariffs.

“While Canada and the United States have had our differences over the centuries, we have always worked and eventually worked through them because we share values and our common interests run deep,” he said.

“They run through our economies. Canada is America’s largest customer. We buy more goods from America than China, Japan and Germany combined,” the prime minister continued.

“Those common interests run through our supply chains, where 70 per cent of Canadian exports are inputs to American cars, homes, aircraft, machinery, finished goods, creating hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars of U.S. value-add.”

Carney’s comments pitching Canada as an investment destination – and his short trip south of the border more broadly – comes as relations between Canada and the U.S. remain rocky ahead of a review of the Canada United States Mexico Agreement (CUSMA).

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