OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney says he did not speak Friday with Donald Trump before the U.S. president announced a sudden end to trade negotiations in response to Ottawa’s plans to push ahead with a digital services tax at the end of the month.
On his platform Truth Social, Trump wrote that he was “terminating all discussions on trade with Canada” because of the tax, set to apply this Monday to major American online companies such as Amazon, Google and Airbnb.
Trump wrote Friday afternoon that Washington will notify Canada of new tariff rates required “to do business with the United States” within the next seven days, which
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