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The Independent
09-07-2025
- Business
- The Independent
Most Canadians now see US as ‘greatest threat' to their country, survey reveals
Most Canadians now see the United States as the 'greatest threat' to their country, a survey has revealed. The Pew Research Center found 59 percent of Canadians think the U.S. is their country's greatest threat, above Russia, North Korea and Iran. But 55 percent of Canadians view the U.S as their country's 'most important ally.' The data was collected from January 8 to April 26 and the poll surveyed 28,333 people in 25 nations around the world. President Donald Trump imposed 25 percent tariffs on Canada in February and has suggested making Canada the '51st State' since before he took office. A majority of Mexicans, 68 percent, also see the U.S. as their country's greatest threat, while 37 percent see it as their country's most important ally. Trump railed against both Mexico and Canada when he was president-elect, claiming the two countries had allowed thousands of people to enter the U.S. illegally and sparking a tariff war. A significant number of people from Indonesia, 40 percent, South Africa, 35 percent, and Turkey, 30 percent, also see the U.S. as the greatest global threat to their countries. But there are several countries whose people, for the most part, see the U.S. as a crucial ally. An overwhelming majority of Israelis, 95 percent, South Koreans, 89 percent, and Japanese people, 78 percent, see the U.S. as their country's most important ally. In Europe, 51 percent of people from the United Kingdom, 43 percent of Polish people and 42 percent of Italians also see the U.S. as their country's most important ally. Two of America's biggest adversaries, Russia and China, are also seen as a critical threat around the world. Russia is seen as the greatest threat to Poland by 81 percent of its population, to Sweden by 77 percent of its population and to Germany by 59 percent of its population. A total of 52 percent of Australians, 53 percent of Japanese people and 42 percent of Americans see China as the greatest threat to their country.
National Post
09-07-2025
- Business
- National Post
More than half of Canadians now see U.S. as a top threat: poll
WASHINGTON — As U.S. President Donald Trump pursues his global trade war and talk of annexation, a new poll suggests the percentage of Canadians who view the United States as a top threat has tripled since 2019. Article content While this year's survey by the Pew Research Center suggests that 55 per cent of Canadians still say the U.S. remains this country's most important ally, it also says that 59 per cent now see the U.S. as a threat — up from 20 per cent in the 2019 poll. Article content Article content 'Canada sort of stands out as one place where views of the U.S. have changed significantly and substantially,' said Janell Fetterolf, a senior researcher at the centre. Article content Article content Pew polled people in 25 countries and the United States was cited as the most important ally in 12. It was the most commonly named threat in eight countries — including America's closest neighbours, Canada and Mexico. Article content Canada was an early target of Trump's tariffs and taunts. He repeatedly called former prime minister Justin Trudeau 'governor' and said he wanted to make Canada a U.S. state. Trump hit Canada and Mexico with duties he linked to fentanyl trafficking in March, only to walk back the tariffs for goods that comply with the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement on trade a few days later. Article content Both countries are also being targeted by Trump's tariffs on steel, aluminum and automobiles. Article content The Pew Research Center said many people polled in Europe named Russia as a top threat, while China was more commonly named among those in the Asia-Pacific region. Article content Article content Poll respondents were more likely to name the United States as an economic threat, while Russia was more likely to be considered a threat to national security and China was commonly cited as a mix of both. Article content Article content But at least half of the people polled in Mexico, France and Canada who said the United States was a threat also said the U.S. posed 'a great deal of a threat' to national security. Article content In Canada, roughly three-quarters of respondents said the U.S. poses an economic threat and 53 per cent said it poses a national security threat. Article content Pew, a Washington-based non-partisan think tank, surveyed 28,333 adults across 24 countries — not including the United States _ from Jan. 8 to April 26 by phone, online and in person. The centre also surveyed 3,605 Americans from March 24 to March 30 by phone, online and in person. Article content Israelis were particularly likely to name the U.S. as their country's most important ally. Israelis also stood out for their particularly positive ratings of the U.S. and its president. Most Israelis polled named Iran as the top threat.
Yahoo
08-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
TSX futures rise; new US tariff proposals in focus
(Reuters) -Futures tied to Canada's benchmark index edged higher on Tuesday, while investors assessed U.S. President Donald Trump's new tariff proposals for several trading partners and a new deadline for trade deals. Futures on the S&P/TSX index rose 0.2% by 06:34 a.m. ET (1034 GMT). Trump on Monday sent letters to 14 nations, including Japan and South Korea, threatening sharply higher tariffs on U.S. imports, while also postponing their implementation to August 1. He added that the deadline was not 100% firm and he would consider extensions if countries made proposals. Countries have been under pressure to seal deals with the U.S. after Trump launched a global trade war in April, which rattled financial markets and prompted policymakers to protect their economies. Canada, which recently canceled a digital service tax on U.S. technology companies to preserve trade talks with Trump, aims to reach an agreement by July 21. Gold and oil prices eased on Tuesday. [GOL/] [O/R] Canada's finance minister has asked all ministries to find savings, assess spending on programs, cut down on work duplication and look to reallocate funds from other programs to priority projects, a government official said on Monday. Aura Minerals said it is preparing to list its shares on Nasdaq, in a move that could fetch the Canadian gold and copper miner a valuation of $2.14 billion. Toronto's commodity-heavy S&P/TSX composite index closed lower on Monday, tracking U.S. markets, sparking trade jitters among Canadian investors. FOR CANADIAN MARKETS NEWS, CLICK ON CODES: TSX market report [.TO] Canadian dollar and bonds report [CAD/] [CA/] Reuters global stocks poll for Canada Canadian markets directory Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Yahoo
07-07-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
FIRST READING: The remarkably few elbows Carney has thrown at Trump
First Reading is a Canadian politics newsletter curated by the National Post's own Tristin Hopper. To get an early version sent directly to your inbox, sign up here. Prime Minister Mark Carney won the election in April thanks in part due to his promise to take a hard line with the United States. Carney declared during the campaign that Canada's highly integrated 'old relationship' with the U.S. was over. Polls showed at the time that among Liberal voters, their top motivation in voting for Carney was their idea that he would be an effective counterweight against U.S. President Donald Trump. One Ipsos poll from April 13 found that voters saw Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre as likely to 'roll over and accept whatever Trump wants,' while trusting Carney to be 'a tough negotiator who would get the best deal for Canada.' So it's a little weird that Carney's premiership has largely been marked by deference to Washington. Two months in, the Carney government has not materially opposed the U.S. agenda in any meaningful sense. Below, a cursory record of how Carney's 'elbows up' strategy against U.S. President Donald Trump has actually played out. Immediately rescinding legislation because of a Trump social media post It's certainly not unprecedented for Canada to acquiesce to a demand from the United States. The 2020 re-negotiation of NAFTA, for one, was marked by a series of Canadian concessions on everywhere from dairy quotas to intellectual property rights. But Carney has overseen the first time in history that a Canadian government has seemingly promised to rescind House of Commons legislation just because the U.S. president complained about it in a social media post. That would be the Digital Services Tax Act, which was made law in Canada last June following a 'yea' House of Commons vote of 175 to 144. But it only took a press release for the Carney government to reverse all of that as a sop to Washington. The spur was a Truth Social post by Trump, in which he said he was immediately suspending all Canadian trade negotiations because of the tax, which he called an 'attack on our Country.' Within two days, the Carney government unilaterally pledged to do what Trump wanted: Collection of the tax would stop immediately, and the Digital Services Tax Act would be repealed as soon as possible. Here's how White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt summed up the move in a recent press conference: 'It's very simple. Prime Minister Carney and Canada caved to President Trump and the United States of America.' Carney's flattery of Trump is unprecedented Until recently, the most conspicuous example of a prime minister kissing up to the American leader was usually cited as the time in 1985 when Brian Mulroney publicly sang When Irish Eyes Are Smiling to then U.S. president Ronald Reagan. Justin Trudeau and Barack Obama were also known to praise one another, with Trudeau calling his U.S. counterpart 'a man of both tremendous heart and tremendous intellect.' But Carney takes the tactic to a whole new level. In the two times he's personally met with Trump, he's made a point of delivering an extended paean to the U.S. leader in front of news cameras. The most recent example came at the G7 summit in Alberta, where Carney wished Trump a happy birthday before declaring that the Canadian-hosted summit was 'nothing without U.S. leadership, and your personal leadership.' In a May meeting at the White House, Carney called Trump a 'transformational president' who was 'securing the world.' First bill tabled by Liberals was a package of U.S.-demanded border security measures The first major piece of legislation tabled by the re-elected Liberal government was Bill C-2, the Strong Borders Act. The bill codified a package of border security measures pledged to Trump in February as part of an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to stave off a trade war. This includes a promised crackdown on fentanyl trafficking, as well as tighter controls on immigration, particularly in the realm of fraudulent asylum claims. There are good reasons for Canada to pass a border security bill, but the Liberals have been quite open about the fact that their newfound interest in border security has been a direct reaction to Trump. In a House of Commons defence of Bill C-2, Liberal MP Kevin Lamoureux said, 'members will recall that the criticism being levelled by the President of the United States toward Canada was about the issue of fentanyl, of our borders not being secure.' The Americans are actually pretty satisfied with Canada's turn on defence spending Probably the most conspicuous anti-American policy turn taken by the Carney government has been its attempts to substitute Canada's close relationship with the U.S. in favour of a close relationship with the European Union. This has been most notable in the realm of defence, with Carney pledging vast increases to Canadian military spending while striking a new European military alliance that will include Canadian participation in the ReArm Europe program. Federal literature has made clear that they're doing this to 'diversify Canada's defence partnerships beyond the United States,' but the tack is pretty much in line with what the United States has been begging Canada to do. U.S. politicians of both major parties have long bemoaned Canada's lacklustre contributions to the likes of both NATO and NORAD, with senior members of the Trump White House often citing low defence spending as one of their main grievances against Canada. In fact, NATO's recent decision to raise their military spending benchmark to five per cent of GDP (a move that Canada swiftly agreed to), was hailed by Trump as a major victory for U.S. foreign policy. Carney swiftly dropped most of the Canadian counter-tariffs During the federal election, Carney was quite forceful in outlining the need for 'countermeasures' against U.S. tariffs. After Trump hit the Canadian auto sector with a round of tariffs in early April, Carney immediately retaliated with what he described as 'purpose and force.' 'Canada has responded to the U.S. imposition of tariffs on Canadian goods by introducing a suite of countermeasures designed to compel the U.S. to remove the tariffs as soon as possible,' read a statement from the prime minister's office at the time. But almost as soon as the election was over, Carney unilaterally zeroed almost all of the counter-tariffs. Oxford Economics reported in May that any retaliatory Canadian trade measures were now 'nearly zero,' even while key elements of the original U.S. tariffs resigning his seat in order to give Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre a path back into the House of Commons, Conservative MP Damien Kurek received much praise for the fact that he did so despite the fact that he was only a months away from qualifying for his gold-plated Parliamentary pension. But Kurek appears to have landed on his feet; he was just hired by the lobbying and public relations firm Upstream Strategy all of these insights and more into your inbox by signing up for the First Reading newsletter. Geoff Russ: Race socialism is coming to the West. It will start in New York Canadian musician who led 'simple life' gets 15 years for smuggling 12 kg of heroin
CTV News
05-07-2025
- Politics
- CTV News
Ogdensburg, N.Y. residents to show support for Canadian neighbours with ‘Friendship Flotilla'
The flags of Canada and the United States fly outside a hotel in downtown Ottawa, on Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang Residents in the border town of Ogdensburg, N.Y. will show their support for Canada this afternoon on the St. Lawrence River. At around 2 p.m., a 'Friendship Flotilla' will leave the Ogdensburg Marina, moving past Prescott, Ont. and west to Brockville to show solidarity with their Canadian neighbours amid the trade war between the two countries. 'It's incredibly important for us here,' said co-organizer and Ogdensburg resident Adam Jarrett. 'We don't want Canadians to feel uncomfortable coming across the border.' Jarrett and his wife Eileen moved to Ogdensburg from New York City about 20 years ago. He says they often take trips to Ottawa, Prescott or Brockville and enjoy the perks of living in a border town. 'A huge part of why we love it up here is our relationship with Canada and our proximity to Canada,' he said. 'This rally in Ogdensburg today is really to show support for the Canadian people, for our current friendship and current relationships, with the Canadian people.' The ongoing tensions between Canada and the U.S. have made those trips different. As Americans with many ties on the Canadian side of the border, Jarrett says there is a level of guilt. 'We almost feel like we have to apologize and we have to say this is not this is not who America is,' said Jarrett. 'It's an uncomfortable feeling.' The flotilla will start after a ceremony at Ogdensburg City Hall at 1 p.m. More details to come.
