By Craig Lord Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling on Prime Minister Mark Carney to show some “backbone” as trade negotiations ramp up with the United States. In a letter to Carney shared with reporters, Poilievre and his Canada-U.S. relations critic Shuvaloy Majumdar said that Ottawa has given in to several of Trump’s demands in the last year. The pair cited scrapping the digital service tax, removing Canada’s counter-tariffs and cutting the United States into a deal to share net toll revenue from the recently opened Gordie Howe International Bridge. Poilievre and Majumdar argued against Carney’s previous claim that no deal is better than a bad deal by pointing to job losses in manufacturing-heavy Canadian cities that rely on cross-border supply chains. “Canadians deserve a government that has the backbone…
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