Carney calls for 'buy Canadian' in response to Trump's new tariff threat

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Sunday, January 25, 2026

25/01/2026

This combination of images shows Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney on June 16, 2025, in Kananaskis, Canada, (left), and US President Donald Trump on Oct 7, 2025, in Washington. (AP)

OTTAWA, Jan 25, (Xinhua): Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Saturday called for "buy Canadian" and "build Canadian" in response to a new tariff threat from US President Donald Trump. Carney published a pre-taped video on his personal social media account about buying and building Canadian to combat economic threats from other countries.

"With our economy under threat from abroad. Canadians have made a choice: to focus on what we can control," Carney said at the beginning of the video. Though Carney did not mention the United States directly, the prime minister said: "We can't control what other nations do. We can be our own best customer. We'll buy Canadian. We'll build Canadian." Trump on Saturday threatened to slap a 100 percent tariff on Canadian goods coming into the United States.