Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Thursday said the “old relationship” with the United States “is over” while vowing to engage in a renegotiation over a trade agreement. 

Carney, 60, who won the Liberal leadership this month with 86% of the vote after former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stood down, was speaking in Ottawa after meeting the nation’s provincial premiers when he spoke about President Donald Trump’s new tariffs. 

President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney (Getty Images)

“What is clear is that we as Canadians have agency. We have power. We are masters in our own home,” he said. “We control our destiny. We can give ourselves much more than any foreign government, including the United States, can ever take away.”

Trump’s tariffs and remarks about making Canada the 51st state have unsettled Canadian leaders and upset many Canadians. 

On Wednesday, Trump said that he would impose a 25% tariff on imports of foreign-made cars, a move intended to boost the U.S. auto industry. He paused the tariffs on goods covered by the USMCA.