Prime Minister Mark Carney rejected binding Canada to US fiscal policy on 2026-08-24, choosing temporary economic instability over loss of fiscal autonomy. Trump had threatened 50% tariffs on Canadian goods to force the union.
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"For Canada, the choice came down to either severe but temporary economic instability or binding itself to a pseudo-democratic fiscal basketcase of a nation, whose only apparent foreign policy objective has become domination for the gratification of its president’s slapdash vanity." https://www. nytimes.com/2026/08/24/opinion /mark-carney-tariffs-canada-america.html?unlocked_article_code=1.71A.zrS
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