Canadian PM Mark Carney:


> "They introduced, at the last hours, efforts to restrict our ability to have other trade deals.
> 
> We are the partner of choice for countries around the world, and the Americans wanted to restrict that.
> 
> Unacceptable!"


A summary of demands reportedly put forward by Washington shows the U.S. wasn't just after tariff relief, but structural control over Canadian sovereignty itself.

Among the reported asks: a joint U.S.-Canada review board giving Washington effective veto power over foreign infrastructure investment in Canada, automatic Canadian alignment with U.S. sanctions and export controls on third countries, and first-refusal rights with price caps on Canada's own critical minerals — lithium, nickel, cobalt, uranium. Also on the list: repeal of Canada's digital tax and news compensation laws, dismantling of Canadian-content and Quebec French-language protections, the end of "Buy Canadian" procurement, and defense mandates locking Ottawa into buying U.S. hardware for its own Arctic.

_Carney's line about the U.S. wanting to "restrict" Canada's ability to trade freely with the rest of the world reads very differently once you see the fuller list._

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