Althea Raj
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678 appearances
4 recordings
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 16 Jun
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And we have the prime minister say we don't have the starter pistols.
The starter pistol belongs to the Americans.
We're waiting for them to tell us to come to the table.
And we don't want to come to the table on the terms that they've outlined at the moment, basically.
We're not ready to pre-negotiate against ourselves.
But is dead in the water just that it's status quo?
Because one of the other things that emerged over the last two weeks of April was Janice Charette, who's our lead trade negotiator on the Canada-US file, outline what her mandate has been.
which is to safeguard preferential market access to the United States, to get tariff relief on steel, aluminum, lumber, copper.
She also talked about how this has been the Canadian government's line since even under Justin Trudeau when they thought that a Democrat was going to win like Werner.
not renegotiating.
This is just like a temperature check.
We're just kind of sorting out some housekeeping issues.
We're not like totally re-upping this.
But at the same time, you know, like 20 minutes later in her remarks, they do acknowledge it's going to be a tough slog.
It's quite possible that we don't have a tariff-free environment with the United States.
That is a possibility.
I think that there's two things to take comfort in, and I think that we have seen Canadian officials take comfort in that.
One is the July 1st deadline, which now they're saying, don't worry if there's no deal by July 1st.
It's, I think, which Jenna said, it's like it's not a cliff.
The actual agreement says that the leader of the countries will have to decide on July they will meet and they have to decide if they want to renegotiate or renew, sorry, Kuzma for another 16 years.
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