Framing Analysis
Mark Carney stated that U.S. negotiators treated French language protections in Quebec as an irritant and instructed Canadian negotiators to walk away from talks rather than accept terms that would weaken those rules. Donald Trump posted that Canada had been ripping off the United States and threatened new tariffs on cars and trucks, with tariffs on an array of Canadian products affecting roughly 5 percent of exports taking effect over the weekend. Canada plans retaliation in early September while Carney toured a Quebec shipyard with the provincial premier.