Is Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney already making a U-turn against Trump?
To revive trade negotiations with Washington suspended by Donald Trump, the Canadian Prime Minister quickly abandoned the idea of a digital services tax. Is Mark Carney, elected in April on a promise to be combative against the American president, really the right man for the job? asks the Canadian press.
Canadian media and activists are wary of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's decision to bury the idea of a digital services tax on June 29 in an effort to restart bilateral trade negotiations, which had been halted abruptly forty-eight hours earlier by U.S. President Donald Trump.
Noting that the United Kingdom did not sacrifice its own tax to reach an agreement with the United States, a group of patriotic organizations, Canadians for Digital Sovereignty, laments in the Toronto Star that foreign web giants will thus benefit from a tax holiday of 7.2 billion Canadian dollars (4.5 billion euros) over the next five years.
Three days before his election, on April 28, Mark Carney, former governor of the Bank of England, gave an interview to the Ontario news site SooToday , in which he said about Trump:
“I know this guy, I know how he negotiates. The first offer will be bad, and we'll let it go.”
Since then, ABC News recalls , Trump has increased the tariff from 25% to 50% on steel and aluminum imports, and on June 16, at the G7 summit, the two men announced that “the United States and Canada would reach a trade agreement
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