Prime Minister Mark Carney has ordered Canadian negotiators to withdraw from trade talks with the Trump administration after the U.S. proposed new 50% tariffs on $28 billion of Canadian goods, which Carney deemed unfair and economically damaging. This marks a pivotal rupture in U.S.-Canada
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