Carney Says Canada Wants to ‘Get Serious’ With US on Trade Talks

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said his top cabinet ministers are in contact with White House officials and want to have “serious” negotiations about trade, as US trading partners brace for President Donald Trump’s next barrage of tariffs.

“With respect to the president, the point is to have substantive discussions. The point is not theater, the point is to get serious — sovereign nation to sovereign nation,” Carney told reporters Tuesday in Halifax, Nova Scotia. “That’s what we’re looking for in terms of putting this trading relationship back on a new path — a new path that works best ...