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Canadian government reporter, Bloomberg News
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Canada and India kicked each others' top diplomats out of their countries last October, after Trudeau and police officials publicly accused the Indian government of supporting violence against Canada’s South Asian community, particularly Sikhs www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Here is the full G-7 statement on the Middle East
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Among other things, this means Trump won’t be meeting with Zelenskyy, Sheinbaum and Modi tomorrow
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Leavitt then said Trump is leaving for Washington specifically “because of what’s going on in the Middle East”
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All the latest G7 news is on our liveblog here: www.bloomberg.com/news/live-bl...
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And yes, as multiple people have pointed out, Stephen Harper was Canadian PM in 2014 when Russia was kicked out. Not Trudeau
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I think from Carney's perspective, there was a decent amount of optimism from Trump there about reaching a trade deal. And then a whole lot of awkwardness about having to stand there as Trump repeatedly bemoaned Russia being kicked out of G8
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Trump returns again to blaming Obama and Trudeau for getting Putin kicked out of the G8. "He was very insulted... he was thrown out and he's not a happy person about it I can tell you that"
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On a trade deal, Trump says he and Carney have different concepts. "I have a tariff concept...Mark has a more complex idea, but also very good." Then says he does think a deal is achievable in the coming days or weeks
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And now Trump is going off on what a mistake it was to kick Russia out of the G8. "Barack Obama, and a person named Trudeau didn't want to have Russia in, then I would say that that was a mistake"
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"Welcome to Canada," Carney tells Trump once media are let into the room. Wishes him a happy birthday, and a happy birthday to the US military.
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The government has released these details for the new military spending this year. The measures add up to a little over $9 billion. www.canada.ca/en/departmen...
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"BOREALIS will advance cutting-edge research in artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and other frontier technologies essential to safeguarding Canadian sovereignty," Carney says.
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Carney also announces a sort of Canadian version of DARPA. The acronym is, uh...well, opinions may differ on this one.
"We will also establish BOREALIS, the Bureau of Research, Engineering and Advanced Leadership in Innovation and Science."
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From the speech, the main points of Canada's military spending increase are coming from:
- militarizing the Coast Guard
- expanding Arctic defence presence
- big push on domestic procurement and research
- creating more defence jobs, increasing pay
But a lot of details still to come.
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Carney says the "world’s trade routes, allegiances, energy systems, and even intelligence itself are being rewired. Rising great powers are now in strategic competition with America. A new imperialism threatens." If middle powers "are not at the table, they're on the menu."
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Carney says the US became the global hegemon after the Cold War, but "now the United States is beginning to monetise its hegemony: charging for access to its markets and reducing its relative contribution to our collective security."
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In question period, Carney threatens trade retaliation if talks fail with US on removing tariffs. "We are in intensive negotiations with the Americans, and in parallel preparing reprisals if those negotiations do not succeed."
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Dominic LeBlanc has made two trips in the past two weeks to Washington for trade talks. A statement from Carney's office last night said the government is "engaged in intensive and live negotiations to have these and other tariffs removed."
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Carney and his new energy minister have clearly singled out the Pathways project as a major priority. But so did Trudeau, and he was never able to get the companies to start building it, despite offering major tax credits and a potential guarantee of carbon credit revenue.
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On the other hand...we have seen this language before: bsky.app/profile/aaro...
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Smith, of course, said her preferred solution is "a million barrel a day pipeline going to the northwest BC coast." Carney didn't commit to anything but seemed open to some kind of grand bargain that allows oil companies to increase production (or at least get a better export price)
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(fixed post that had wrong number the first time)