LS ‘JUST IN: Mark Carney SLAPS DOWN Trump’s G7 Demands — Canada Breaks the “Obey Washington” Rule’ LS

Canada’s normally measured diplomacy took a dramatic turn at the G7 summit in the Canadian Rockies, where Prime Minister Mark Carney stunned both allies and critics by openly defying U.S. President Donald Trump’s agenda — and dismantling his demands in a blisteringly precise rebuttal that left the room in stunned silence.

According to multiple officials in the room, the tone of the entire summit shifted the moment Carney made his first move: scrapping the traditional G7 closing communique before talks even began.

Carney Torpedoes the G7 “Unity Script”

The communique is usually a carefully negotiated document that allows leaders to pretend to be united, even when they aren’t. Carney’s decision to kill it in advance was more than a procedural tweak — it was a public signal that Canada refused to help script a fake “win” for Trump.

Instead of the familiar pledge-filled statement on shared values, climate, and trade, there would be nothing. No joint message. No photo-op consensus. No paper for Trump to wave on the tarmac.

Behind the scenes, officials say Carney’s team made it clear:
Canada was not going to sign its name to language that effectively rubber-stamped Trump’s latest hardball demands — including higher military spending under U.S. terms and a sweeping 10% “universal” tariff on more than $1.1 trillion in imports from allies.

The move reportedly blindsided both the White House and several European delegations, who had expected a bruising negotiation, not a preemptive refusal to play along at all.

Canada REJECTS Trump’s G7 Ultimatum

When Air Force One touched down, tensions were already running high. Trump arrived expecting leverage and theatrics. Instead, he walked into a summit where the usual script had been ripped up.

In one of the first high-stakes sessions, U.S. officials pressed their case: America was “done being taken advantage of” and allies needed to pay more, concede more, and accept new tariffs as “the cost of access” to the U.S. market.

That’s when Carney stepped in.

Drawing on his background as a central banker and economic heavyweight, he reportedly presented a cold, data-driven takedown of Trump’s position — complete with projections showing how the proposed tariffs and coercive tactics were destabilizing not only global markets, but also America’s own long-term influence.

One witness described the moment this way:

“It wasn’t loud. It was surgical. Carney basically told Trump: If you want stability, stop manufacturing chaos. The room went quiet.”

Another diplomat said the U.S. side looked “visibly rattled” as Carney linked Washington’s tariff shocks directly to market volatility, investment pullbacks, and a World Bank downgrade of global growth — all traced back to U.S. “policy whiplash.”

A Summit for Damage Control, Not Unity

This G7 did not look like past G7s.

French President Emmanuel Macron’s high-profile stop in Greenland — interpreted as a jab at Trump’s earlier musings about buying the territory — set a defiant tone even before the summit opened. Japan, for its part, had already filed new complaints with the WTO over U.S. measures that Tokyo says are breaking the rules of the system America once helped build.

Leaders weren’t gathering to deepen alliances. They were trying to contain the damage.

Inside the meeting rooms, a new pattern emerged:

• Germany arrived with contingency plans to shield its industrial base from U.S. tariff crossfire.
• Japan sought to firewall its supply chains and avoid becoming collateral in Washington’s economic battles.
• Mexico focused on limiting further disruption under the reworked North American trade regime.
• The UK managed to secure a narrow digital trade carve-out — a win on paper, but far from the broad relief London had hoped for.

Instead of a united front, the G7 looked like a cluster of governments scrambling for lifeboats on a ship someone else was rocking.

The Price of Resistance

The economic stakes for Canada are not theoretical. Since the start of 2025, retaliatory measures and tariff crossfire have already cost Canada an estimated $4.2 billion in losses — a price Ottawa cannot ignore as it fights to keep access to crucial markets while defending its own sovereignty.

Carney’s refusal to back a joint statement was, in that context, less of a stunt and more of a line in the sand.

Without a communique, Trump is left without what he values most from these gatherings: a polished document he can brand as proof that allies endorsed his agenda. The absence of that paper may seem symbolic, but in diplomacy, symbols are power.

This time, Canada chose to deny him that symbol.

G7: From Club of Consensus to Arena of Resistance

By the second day, it was clear the G7 was no longer operating as a club built on consensus. It had become something closer to a crisis council — a place where leaders compared notes on how to manage, resist, or redirect U.S. pressure.

Carney’s stand crystallized what many in the room were already feeling but had not said as directly: that the United States, once the stabilizer of the global economy, was increasingly perceived as its chief source of volatility.

His decision to blow up the communique did three things at once:

1. Denied Trump a narrative victory. No joint text, no “we all agreed” talking point.
2. Exposed the rift instead of masking it. The lack of a closing document was itself a headline.
3. Reframed the summit. The G7 looked less like a stage for U.S.-led unity and more like the front line of a growing pushback against unilateral American economic power.

A New Era — Or a Breaking Point?

The broader implications are still unfolding.

The World Bank’s downgrade of global GDP growth, citing uncertainty from U.S. tariff policy, underscores how high the stakes really are. If Carney’s move inspires other leaders to stop playing along with carefully choreographed shows of unity, the result could be a very different kind of G7 — one where open resistance replaces polite disagreement.

That shift won’t be without risks. A fragile coalition of democracies is now trying to stand up to the same superpower they also rely on for defense, capital, and access to the world’s largest consumer market.

As leaders look ahead to the next rounds of negotiations — especially within NATO, where Trump’s demands on spending and burden-sharing are already tearing at the fabric of the alliance — one question is hanging over every conversation:

Is this the start of a more honest, multipolar pushback against U.S. economic coercion…
or the beginning of a slow, messy breakdown of the very system the G7 was created to protect?

For now, one thing is undeniable:
At this summit, Canada did not just disagree with Trump. It refused to help him pretend there was agreement at all. And Mark Carney’s precision strike on the G7 playbook has left global leaders, and the White House, recalculating what comes next.