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We will need to dramatically reduce our reliance on the United States [...] We will need to pivot our trade relationships elsewhere, and we will need to do things previously thought impossible at speeds we haven’t seen in generations.

— Mark Carney

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After President Donald Trump imposed trade tariffs on Canada.

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