BREAKING: Mark Carney slashes Canada's 100% tariff on Chinese EVs and announces that up to 49,000 Chinese electric cars will be imported into Canada with only a 6.1% tariff.
In return, China has agreed to slash tariffs on canola imports from 84% to 15% by March 1.
Canadian FM Anita Anand announces a reversal in Canada's foreign policy towards China.
Q: "You called China a 'global disruptive power.' Do you still believe that's the case or has your language around China softened?"
A: "This is a new government with a new Prime Minister, a new foreign policy and a new geopolitical environment."
"It is necessary for us to diversify our trading partners and to grow non-US trade by at least 50% over the next 10 years."
Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew says America is becoming a "third-world country."
He urges people to "push the American people and their administration...off of the subversion of Western liberal democracy."