The Prime Ministers of Canada and Prime Minister Mark Carney will meet in Saskatoon on June 2 to discuss the means to work together to make the country stronger.
In an article on social networks, Carney said that in the face of “immediate trade pressures”, he and the Prime Ministers focus on building Canada’s economic resilience.
“This means launching major national construction projects, removing internal commercial barriers and building a Canadian economy,” said Carney, adding that Reunion in Saskatoon “will maintain this work.”
Carney spoke Wednesday with the Prime Ministers to inform them His first meeting with US President Donald Trump At the White House while Canada absorbs a dam of American prices.
Ontario Prime Minister Doug Ford, who participated in the conference call, said the Prime Ministers had congratulated the Prime Minister His meeting Tuesday with Trump.
“I don’t think I would have the restraint he had yesterday, to be very frank,” said Ford. “I think it’s a good start on a new relationship. I think everyone feels relatively well during the meeting yesterday. So it’s a good start. “
Saskatchewan Prime Minister Scott Moe told journalists in Regina that he felt well after the meeting with Carney and the first. He said he was also satisfied with how Carney’s meeting with Trump went.
Moe added that he is impatiently awaiting robust conversations with Carney and the other Saskatoon Prime Ministers.
“(There will be) a good discussion on how we can really bring the Canadians together in the light of a fairly divine election and a fairly divine period,” he said. “There is a definitive change in existing policies that must occur so that we legitimately redeem the relationship we have (with Ottawa).”
The Prime Minister’s office said in a press release that the “productive” discussion was focused on Canadian-American relations on Wednesday and reinforcing Canada’s strength at home.
The PMO said that the Prime Ministers “had agreed to accelerate project approvals, including through an” One Project, One Review “approach.
Susan Holt, the first Brunswick, said in a social media position on Wednesday that the Prime Ministers shared their main priorities for national construction projects.
She said that New Brunswick ports are ready to increase national and international trade with additional investments and that the province has “ready to move to critical minerals to support economic development”.
Holt said that New Brunswick is a leader in modular home building and is “ready to exploit investments to combat the national housing crisis”.
Carney informed the Prime Ministers after the Prime Minister of Alberta Danielle Smith has publicly raised the prospect that her province separates from Canada.
Last week, the united conservative government of Smith introduced legislation which would strongly reduce the barrels of the bar to meet to trigger a provincial referendum on secession.
Ford said Carney had “a very good job” to reach out in Western Canada and that he told the Prime Minister that he was time for his government to “show some love” to Saskatchewan and Alberta.
“The last Prime Minister has not shown no love,” said Ford. “It is therefore that we are heading towards Saskatchewan for (a first meeting of ministers).”
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Asked about Smith’s referendum legislation at a press conference in Washington on Tuesday, Carney said Canada was stronger when the provinces work together.
“As an Albertain, I firmly believe that,” he said. “You can always ask a question, but I know what I would clearly answer.”
On Tuesday, Ford criticized discussions on the separation of Alberta and said that Canada should be united in its fight against the United States.
“It’s time to unite the country, not people who say:” Oh, I leave the country “,” he said.
Asked on Wednesday if ministers of the conference calls on a Smith calendar of a referendum calendar, given the conference of the White House of the Annex of Canada, Ford said that “nobody has raised” but the subject could be raised in a “private conversation”.
Ford was also asked if the federal conservative chief Pierre Hairy had asked him for a meeting. He said he thought that Hairyvre “asked everyone through the country a meeting.”
“I have no problem with this, and I would be more than happy to speak to anyone and work with anyone,” said Ford.
Carney and Trump spent about two hours on Tuesday at the White House, including about half an hour in front of the cameras in the oval office.
It was their first face-to-face discussion on American-Canadian relations and the Trump’s current trade war.
The Prime Minister of Manitoba, Wab Kinew, sent a letter to Carney on Wednesday to present a federal-provincial partnership on several national construction projects.
They include the creation of a commercial corridor through the port of Churchill, the establishment of indigenous “fair trade zones” and the development of infrastructure of critical minerals. In his letter, Kinew called his province “Costco of critical minerals”.
Kinew said Manitoba “is ready to collaborate” with the Prime Minister and other provinces and territories to “build a stronger Canada on national interest projects”.
During the question period on Wednesday, Kinew answered a question about what he is doing to protect the province’s film industry against American prices.
He said that Carney and the Prime Ministers “should protect industries in all areas, but including those that generate intellectual property”.
The Prime Minister of British Columbia, David Eby, said after the meeting on Wednesday that the Prime Ministers had agreed that Carney had managed to set the tone for “a new relationship” between Canada and the United States, he declared that the Prime Ministers were all “grateful” that the meeting did as she did, given the way recent sessions with other world leaders took place in the Oval Office.
Eby also said that the British are “all forward” for Canada and that it’s time to stand together as a country.
“The idea of separating here is a non-starter,” said Eby, adding that he encourages ministers to work together to hold the country together and repel any separatist movement.
Carney said he and Trump had agreed to speak further in the coming weeks and will once again meet in person when the Prime Minister welcomes G7 leaders at a summit in Alberta from June 15 to 17.
“Really, today has marked the end of the start of a process in the United States and Canada to redefine this work relationship together,” said Carney.
“The question is how we will cooperate in the future. How we can build an economic and security relationship based on mutual respect, based on common interests, which offers transformational advantages to our economies. ”
Fen Hampson, professor of the University of Carleton and co-chair of a group of experts on Canadian-American relations, said that Carney was to manage a “two-track set” of negotiations with the United States.
First, it faces upcoming negotiations on the Canada-UX-Mexico Trade Agreement. CUSMA should be revised in 2026, but Trump said he wanted it to reopened earlier.
Then there is the “more immediate” challenge to persuade Washington to raise prices recently imposed on Canadian exports, said Hampson.
“This is the first order of the day because I think it recognizes, our government recognizes that you cannot be renegotiated (a trade agreement) when essentially the Americans broke the back of the agreement with these very punitive prices,” he said.
While Trump said on Tuesday that there was nothing that Carney could not say to raise the prices immediately, Hampson said that the president was “completely able” to change his mind.
“We have already seen it in many cases,” he said. “We even saw him with prices. He imposed prices and then lowered them or delayed them. ”
Working in favor of Canada, Hampson said, is the fact that the American economy is “on the tank” following prices imposed in Canada and other countries, including China. The challenge will be to bring Trump to understand the importance of Canada market, he added.
Carney should appoint a new firm next week, before the return of Parliament at the end of the month.
Hampson said he suspected that the Prime Minister would make changes to his main team and that he will have to choose “difficult and good negotiators”.
“While he turns to potential meetings of the firm, he must really examine them not only in terms of ministerial management and skills, but in terms of negotiation skills because they will have to do part of the negotiations.”
– With Allison Jones files in Toronto, Jeremy Simes in Regina and Steve Lambert in Winnipeg