Prime Minister Mark Carney says his government is readying further retaliation measures if negotiations with the United States to end the recently doubled tariffs on steel and aluminum fail."We are in intensive negotiations with the Americans and in parallel preparing reprisals if those negotiations do not succeed,

Prime Minister Mark Carney said the two nations “will cooperate where necessary, where it is in both of our interests very clearly, but we won’t necessarily cooperate.”

Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canada won’t respond immediately to the Trump administration’s doubling of steel and aluminum tariffs, and indicated that officials are in “intensive discussions” about the trade relationship between the countries.