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Northeastern Governors and Canadian Premiers Unite Against Trump -- The American Prospect
https://prospect.org/world/2025-06-19-northeastern-governors-canadian-premiers-unite-against-trump/Gabrielle Gurley
In the shadow of the G7 summit in Alberta, regional American and Canadian leaders met in Boston to confront their shared economic crises—and surviving Trump.
Canada knows the drill. Prime Minister Mark Carney worked hard to stage-manage President Trump’s whirlwind G7 appearance. It went sideways anyway, as the president sidetracked a press briefing into lobbying for Russia, absent from the proceedings since the invasion of Crimea. Then came the predictable mendacities about former prime minister Justin Trudeau, and diatribes about blue cities, undocumented immigrants, and for some reason, Gov. J.B. Pritzker of Illinois, “probably the worst governor in the country.”
After seven long minutes of the president’s freestyling, the prime minister all but performed a body block between Trump and reporters to shut down questions. The American president hurried off soon after to his Iran-Israel decision-making back in Washington, leaving Carney with another trade deadline to navigate and a second collapsed Canadian summit. Trump did a similar early disappearing act in 2018, with Trudeau as host.
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The Northeastern border-state governors have some of the strongest ties to their Canadian peers, and like them, they are trying to deal with the hand that the 2024 election dealt. Several times, Susan Holt, the premier of New Brunswick, mentioned wanting to “see us through the other side of this, when we get back to normal.”
Amid the volatility of Trump’s international relations, the prospects of a permanent or even semipermanent accord on tariffs eluded the “G6 +1”: Canada, France, Italy, Germany, Great Britain, and Japan. Whether North American premiers and governors can hang together and power past the “+1,” Trump, in the next three and a half years is the open question that they gamely tried to answer.
The Northeastern governors and Eastern premiers began meeting in 1973, two years before the finance ministers of the West’s economic powerhouses began holding summits on global economic and national-security affairs. Gov. Maura Healey (D-MA) insisted throughout the public session that states and provinces had no choice but to double down to preserve generations’ worth of diplomatic, cultural, and economic ties. Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) was blunt. “These are relationships that have now been damaged because of rhetoric out of Washington as well as tariffs,” she said. “A tariff on Canada is nothing more than a tax on Americans.”
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After seven long minutes of the president’s freestyling, the prime minister all but performed a body block between Trump and reporters to shut down questions. The American president hurried off soon after to his Iran-Israel decision-making back in Washington, leaving Carney with another trade deadline to navigate and a second collapsed Canadian summit. Trump did a similar early disappearing act in 2018, with Trudeau as host.
. . .
The Northeastern border-state governors have some of the strongest ties to their Canadian peers, and like them, they are trying to deal with the hand that the 2024 election dealt. Several times, Susan Holt, the premier of New Brunswick, mentioned wanting to “see us through the other side of this, when we get back to normal.”
Amid the volatility of Trump’s international relations, the prospects of a permanent or even semipermanent accord on tariffs eluded the “G6 +1”: Canada, France, Italy, Germany, Great Britain, and Japan. Whether North American premiers and governors can hang together and power past the “+1,” Trump, in the next three and a half years is the open question that they gamely tried to answer.
The Northeastern governors and Eastern premiers began meeting in 1973, two years before the finance ministers of the West’s economic powerhouses began holding summits on global economic and national-security affairs. Gov. Maura Healey (D-MA) insisted throughout the public session that states and provinces had no choice but to double down to preserve generations’ worth of diplomatic, cultural, and economic ties. Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) was blunt. “These are relationships that have now been damaged because of rhetoric out of Washington as well as tariffs,” she said. “A tariff on Canada is nothing more than a tax on Americans.”
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