Canada strikes back against Trump’s latest tariffs 

Mélanie Jolyforeign Minister

(Mark) Carney is a serious person, a serious man, and he'll engage only if there are serious talks."

Canadian foreign minister Mélanie Joly, however, said

The excuse for the first round was exaggerated claims about our border. We addressed all the concerns raised by the US,

she added

The only constant in this unjustifiable trade war seems to be President Trump's talk of annexing our country through economic coercion,

she said, noting Trump's reiterated remark of Canada's border being a fictional line and his distasteful rhetoric of the 51st state

The conversation tomorrow will be around lowering the temperature and focusing on the process that President Trump set up where Secretary Lutnick has up to April 2 to determine a series of global tariff decisions,

LeBlanc said

There’s a new movement in Canada, and that’s our ‘Canada first’ movement,

Flavio Volpe of Canada’s Automotive Parts Manufacturers’ Association told CNN last night

Mélanie Jolyforeign Minister

The excuse for those tariffs shifts every day,

Joly said

Temperatures are very high at the moment. There’s a lot going on,

Catherine Cobden, president and CEO of the Canadian Steel Producers Association told POLITICO on Tuesday night

Tariffs are taxes. They are bad for business, and even worse for consumers,

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said in an early morning statement on Wednesday

This unjustified and unprovoked trade war hurts working people. This could end today if the U.S. removes the threat of tariffs and gets to the bargaining table to start the CUSMA review process,

she said in a statement Wednesday morning with reference to the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement