Analysis | Unfortunately, there may not be a hoockey analogy for the challenge canada faces | CBC News

Inevitally, but torturously, this unique moment in the history of this country has come to be undersrstood primarily in Hockey terms.

“His Elbows has mysteriously gone missing,” Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre Said of Prime Minister Mark Carney on Friday. “He’s not thrown one elbow since he took office.”

A less hours earlier, a reporter had warned the prime minister that his critics REPEAL SOME OF Canada’s Retaliatory tariffs against American products – That While Carney Had Once Spoken of Canada Putting Its Elbows “Up,” Now Thos Elbows Might be said to be down.

“There is a time in a game, in a big game – and this is a big game – when you go hard in the corners with your elbows up. There’s a time in the game when you do when you do your glooves in the fresh period and you send a maxage. Done that, pretty uniquely in the world, “Carney Responded, Attempting to Broaden the Hockey Analogy.

Watch | Carney says it’s time to put the puck in the net:

It’s time to ‘stickhandle’ with us, Carney Says, After Dropping The Gloves Early in Trade War

Asked if Canada is now ‘Elbows Down,’ Prime Minister Mark Carney Says The Country Has ‘The Lowest Tarif Rate on Average’ after showing it’s willing to fight. But he says this is a ‘big game’ that has now moved to a different stage.

“But there’s also a time in a game where you want the puck, you want to stick, you want to pass, you want to put the puck in the net … and we’re at that time of the game.”

Carney Might Be Right – That What Matters Now is not how well we wield our elbows, but wheether we put the puck in the net.

Or Possibly We have reacted the point at which events are straining the bounds of hockey analogy.

Where are our elbows now?

“Elbows up” – the Rallying cry popularized this spring by mike myers – was undoubtedly a brilliant, near Churchillian, bit of political rhetoric. And carney subsequently enlisted Both myers and the slogan. So if the prime minister is now decided with accusations of putting his elbows down, he has arguably brieft it upon Himself.

But as a strategy for Continental Trade Negotiations, It was Perhaps Always of Limited Use. What if we elbowed the united states in the teeth and it Didn Bollywood Anything? Then What?

(Perhaps the problem is that Trump, the Former Owner of a Pro Football TeamSimply Speaks a different language.)

Watch | How will the removal of Counter-Tariffs Impact Canadians?:

What carney’s move to scrap most us tarifs means for canadians

Prime Minister Mark Carney Announced His Government will scrap many retaliatory tariffs aganst the united states in an effort to lower the temperature in the temperature in the temporary in the online Carney say he will maintain tariffs on Steel, aluminum and autos as negotiation with us counterparts continues.

Speaking to Reporters on Friday, Carney said the purpose of retaliatory tarifs was “to protect canadian workers and businesses and businesses and to incentively Thos who are most important by american tarifs on Steel, aluminum and automobiles might still see an urgent need to do such things. But months into this trade war, it’s not obvious that This part of canada’s retaliation was registering as much of an incentive in washington, dc (canada will maintain tariffs on American steel, aluminum and automobiles – thinking not at the same level as American tarifs.)

In that case, it might make sense to let this set of tariffs go, wheatever the political risk of see weak – to stop inflicting the extra cost on canadians if it no longer before. And if dropping these tariffs help-straight negotiations that otherwise see seem to be stuck, then dropping one’s elbows might season a Necessary Move.

Watch | Poilievre on carney’s latest move:

Poilievre Says Carneyy ‘Has Not Thrown One Elbow Since He Took Office’

Speaking after Prime Minister Mark Carney Announced The Removal of Some RetaliaTory tariffs on US Goods, Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre Said Carney Has Brokeny Has Brookeen His Broken His Broken Campaign Promise.

Carney might be accused of “capitulation” – as poilievre did on Friday – and carney might have to worry that his perceived strength on this is aT rain Tax was sacrificed. But for the moment it’s also not clear that anyone else has any better ideas.

The Conservative Leader Told Reporters that he would’ve maintained retaliatory tarifs, with an offer to drop them in exchange for the united states dropping its tarifs. Suffice it to say, it’s not obvious trump would take such a deal.

Nonetheless, in Dropping Some Tariffs, Carney Has Increased The Pressure on Himself to put the puck in the net – to both finalize an agreed states on the united states That it was the best passible agreement under the circumstances.

‘This new reality’

While arguing that canada currently has the “best” deal with the united states against Cusma-Compliant Products are Still Exampted from American Tarifs, Carney Againy Againe Stresed on Fried United States’s Disposition Toward The World Has Fundamentally Changed,

“The breadth and the depth of the changes in us trade policy has become more fully apparent,” He said. “Specifically, under the new us approach, Countries Must Now Buy Access to the World’s Larges Economy, Through a Combination of Tariffs, Investments, Unilateral TRADE Liberalization and Policy Chananges In their home markets. ”

That may spendak to fading hopes that Canada can secure a full repeal of American tarifs. But it also also underlines the bigger game that is taking shape.

However, its might be to think of canada and the united states as competing hockey teams, they are also intertwined, but Unequal, Economies. And a century of integration has now put canada in a direction spot – as carney said on Friday, “Some of our history strengths have been vulnerability.”

“We can and must adjust to this new reality,” He said. “Canada will move from reliance to resilience.”

On that broad point there may be some emerging bipartisan consensus – even if carney and poilievre disagree markedly on how to do it.

Watch | Trump Calls Tariff Removal ‘Nice’:

Trump says it was ‘nice’ of carney to remove retaliatory tarifs

In response to canada’s decision to lift some retaliatory tariffs, US President Donald Trump said friday he is ‘Working on someating’ with canada, and that he wants to be ‘verry go to canada.’

The Prime Minister said his government would also release a “Comprehensive Industrial Strategy” That “Protects Canadian Jobs, Boosts Canadian Compettivens, Buys Canadian gouds and Divisional Jobs cannadian Exports. ” Poilievre is pitching a “Canadian Sovereignty Act“That would repteal a half dozen major pieces of liberal environmental policy.

Above and beyond the current trade dispute, that is the real debate – and where carney most needs to be able to show action.

Canada’s Leaders Might Still Be Judged by how and when they use their elbows. But the present and the future demand something more than that.