Late Friday night, Canada walked away from the negotiating table in Washington, D.C., ending the talks without a deal to avoid President Donald Trump’s threat of a 50 per cent tariff on Canadian goods. Prime Minister Mark Carney called the negotiating team home after the U.S. introduced last-minute demands, throwing into question the validity of any possible deal. Mackenzie Gray reports. ++ The new 50 per cent tariff will make it much more expensive for many Canadian businesses to export to the U.S. – adding to the pain many sectors had already been feeling. Lumber, steel and auto producers had been hopeful that tariffs would be lowered because of these talks. As Jasmine King reports, the financial impact of the trade impasse is only beginning. ++ Americans will also pay the price for the tariffs their president is imposing – in the form of higher prices. But the move also carries political risk for Donald Trump. With midterm elections this fall, his administration could face backlash for its poor handling of the economy and the affordability crisis he promised to fix. Reggie Cecchini reports from Washington. | Global National
“I’m glad he didn’t sign that deal because it was a bad deal. It was a bad deal for Ontario. It was a bad deal for the auto sector, the steel sector and the manufacturing sector. We never started this fight, but I can assure you, we’re going to win this fight.” Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew agreed that Canada should adopt a harsh position on the United States. | Globalnews.ca
Mr. Greer said that the Trump administration had pledged to eliminate the 10 percent tariff on softwood lumber that Mr. Trump imposed last year using a provision known as Section 232. The United States had also offered to reduce a 25 percent tariff on cars that Mr. Trump put in place last year. But because Canada qualifies for a further reduction when the cars contain any amount of U.S. content, the automotive tariffs could have gone as low as 7 percent, he said. The United States also offered to lower tariffs on metals, one of Canada’s most important priorities. | NYT (🎁 link)
By walking away, Mr. Carney chose a road that no major U.S. ally has taken: With his country’s economy on the line, he stood up to President Trump and refused to accept the administration’s offer of a new trade relationship with tariffs permanently baked in. Britain, the European Union and other major U.S. trading partners have agreed to smaller deals that have been volatile and often left them worse off. The collapse of the talks came after Mr. Trump declared on Tuesday that the deal was practically done. | NYT (🎁 link)
Scott Moe@PremierScottMoe
Here is my statement on U.S. tariffs and Canada’s response.
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A White House official denied that there was any daylight between Greer and Lutnick in the talks. “The idea that Lutnick and Greer were on fundamentally different pages — I know the Canadians have been saying this a lot — but this is a weird deflection,” the official said. “It’s not like Lutnick was going off the reservation and derailing this, or something, unilaterally. That’s just not the case.” | Politico
As trade talks intensify, Canadians are feeling very positive about Prime Minister Carney, with 59% approving and 32% disapproving of how he’s handling Canada-US relations. This represents a 16-point increase in approval of Carney on this file over the past year. Including the link to this Aug 19 polling release to note this chart, how even CPC voters are increasingly negative on Trump. LPC, NDP, and BQ voters have long been super-sour on Trump but with more and more CPC voters souring on Trump, this could (and already likely is) influencing responses from Pierre Poilievre, Danielle Smith and Scott Moe. | Pollara Strategic Insights
« Je salue la volonté de Mark Carney de répondre par des tarifs de valeur égale, a déclaré M. Blanchet. Nous croyons que ces contre-tarifs doivent couvrir les nouveaux tarifs, mais aussi les droits et tarifs illégaux déjà en application. L’argent recueilli par les tarifs devra aussi être exclusivement réservé aux entreprises et secteurs touchés. » | La Presse
More so than any other party, Conservative MPs rely heavily on AI-generated visuals like this one …👇
Here’s a CPC MP — Jamil Jivani who represents Bowmanville, just east of Oshawa, ON — who likely has many constituents who work in the auto assembly plants Donald Trump is trying to shut down, blaming Canada. “Liberal politicians like Mark Carney and Doug Ford have put their political self-interests ahead of Canadian workers.” - DA
Jamil Jivani@jamiljivani
This is a solemn moment for hundreds of thousands families across Canada. In homes on every corner of this nation, working people are having tough conversations about what their future looks like and how they will provide for their families. Make no mistake. Since the
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Vance said, Carney “comes in and puffs his chest out and says, ‘I’m going to, like, out-tough Donald Trump. It’s hilarious because Carney presents this as some victory for Canada when fundamentally, like, they climb down on a lot of issues,” Vance told the room. “But the quiet sort of behind-the-scenes story is that this, like, random MP who has a good relationship with us has been a pretty effective advocate,” he said about Jivani. Vance added there’s “this guy Pierre Poilievre or something” who is the leader of the Conservatives in Canada, adding he is a “non-entity” in negotiations. | CP via Yahoo
Ontario’s Minister of Economic Development charged his riding association more than $21,000 for “out of country” travel expenses, public records show, while simultaneously billing taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars for official government-related travel. Tasked with drumming up billions of dollars in new investment, Minister Vic Fedeli has criss-crossed the globe to meet with companies looking to expand their manufacturing footprint in North America. | Globalnews.ca
The B.C. Conservative MLA for Abbotsford-Mission has announced she will be stepping down, and Conservative Leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay says she plans to seek the vacant seat in a byelection. Reann Gasper, the B.C. Conservatives’ deputy whip, said in a joint statement with Findlay on Saturday that the decision was made carefully. “I believe it is the right decision for me, for our party, and for the work ahead,” said Gasper. | CBC
This week rising bond yields forced the U.S. Treasury Department into an unusual intervention and raised the specter of higher borrowing costs putting the brakes on consumer spending, the lifeblood of the economy. It also sparked concerns that investors might finally be thinking twice about financing a seemingly endless flow of government borrowing. Canada holds a lot — I mean, a lot — of U.S. debt and if Canada decided to sell a lot of that … well, that would not be good for the White House or U.S. consumers. The U.S. has rarely been so vulnerable to bond holders … | ABC News
The donors lean Republican, and cash could prove critical for the GOP to maintain control of Congress in November. Republican-leaning donors gave $1.05 billion, compared with $410 million from Democratic-leaning givers and $230 million from bipartisan and special-interest groups for the midterm elections. The latest filings show that Democrats got a sizable boost in July from a so-called dark-money group that does not disclose donors, House Majority Forward. It gave $20 million to the political action committee supporting the party’s House candidates. | WaPo (🎁 link)
philip lewis@Phil_Lewis_
The Daily Beast published letters that Trump’s 35-year-old aide Natalie Harp allegedly wrote to him “You are all that matters to me. I don’t want to ever let you down. Thank you for being my Guardian and Protector in this Life” thedailybeast.com/natalie-harps-…
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In this episode, Joanne Kuai speaks with Seth C. Lewis, Rodrigo Zamith, and Tomás Dodds, authors of Journalism in the Age of AI: From Acceleration to Reimagination (Polity, 2027). For decades, journalism has been caught on a “hamster wheel” of acceleration: producing more stories, for more platforms, with fewer resources. AI promises even greater efficiency, but is doing more with less really what journalism needs? | New Books Network
The more important question is not what happens when AI generates a fake video of a candidate, but what happens when it is embedded in the systems that administer elections themselves — in procurement decisions, biometric voter-verification systems, and data-sharing arrangements. That is where AI’s impact on democracy may prove most profound. | Rest of World
1030 ET : London, ON - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and CPC MP Kurt Holman host a constituency meeting.
1200 ET : Lansdowne, ON - CPC MP Michael Barrett hosts a community barbeque.
1600 ET : Calgary - CPC MP Jamil Jivani and Tom Kmiec speak to supporters.
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