Canada’s opposition leader demands Carney reconvene Parliament after US trade talks collapse

Canadian opposition leader Pierre Poilievre pressed his country’s prime minister, Mark Carney, to reconvene the Canadian Parliament amid trade tensions with the U.S.

“As Canadians are vulnerable to an escalating trade war with the United States, Parliament must be reconvened. Canadians deserve answers on how trade talks collapsed, what tariffs will cost their families, and how their jobs will be protected,” Poilievre, the leader of Canada’s Conservative Party in the Canadian Parliament, said Monday in a post on the social platform X .

“Prime Minister, reconvene Parliament now,” he added.

Poilievre’s post also featured a letter to Carney in which the opposition leader said that “the failure to secure a durable trade agreement, together with escalating tariffs, now threatens deeper economic pain on top of a decade of rising costs and zero economic growth in the Canadian economy.”

Carney removed Canadian negotiators from trade discussions with the U.S. on Friday, shortly before a fresh round of tariffs from the Trump administration went into effect. He said a day later that his country would implement retaliatory tariffs on the U.S. starting on Sept. 8, responding to the new 50 percent tariffs from the Trump administration.

During a press conference, Carney said Canada would “match Washington’s new tariffs dollar for dollar in order to protect Canadian workers, farmers, families and businesses.”

Throughout President Trump’s second term, tensions have erupted between the U.S. and Canada, two countries that have historically shared a strong alliance, over tariff policy. The president has also pushed for Canada to become the U.S.’s 51st state, to Canadian opposition.

The Hill has reached out to Carney’s office for comment.