Mark Carney

On the advice of the Clerk of the Poverty Council and Heritage Canada, I've asked that the flags in the Peace Tower here and across all government buildings be flown at half-mast for the next seven days.

We will get through this.

We will learn from this.

But right now, it's a time to come together, as Canadians always do in these situations, these terrible situations, to support each other, to mourn together, and to grow together.

Our principal goes throughout the halls and she's saying, people close your doors, lockdown, stuff like that.

I thought it was a secure and hold and something like that at first.

But once things started circulating, we realised how serious it really was.

So we all barricaded up the doors with some iron tables and sat in that room for around two hours.

I was on my phone with my mother the entire time.

It's hard to know what to say on a night like tonight.

It's the kind of thing that feels like it happens in other places and not close to home in a way that this feels for so many British Columbians and Canadians.

Let me be direct.

We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition.

Why are you responding to Trump's threats of 100% tariffs?

Well, the first thing is that Canada respects our commitments.

We have commitments under CUSMA not to pursue free trade agreements with non-market economies without prior notification.

We have no intention.

of doing that with China or any other non-market economy.

What we've done with China is to rectify some issues that developed in the last couple of years.

In many respects, we're going to use the expression back to the future with respect to EVs, with respect to agriculture, with respect to fish products and other food products, but with additional protections.