Canada’s Carney Says Ties With U.S. Are a Weakness. His Next Move?

On April 14, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal Party attained a majority in Parliament thanks to by-elections and defections from the opposition Conservatives. Four days later, Carney addressed the nation displaying a figurine of Gen. Isaac Brock, who repelled U.S. forces invading what is today Canada in the War of 1812. U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick was spreading the transcontinental love in his own way.