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Leading Canadian conservative says Ottawa should remove all tariffs as ‘Liberation Day’ arrives
OTTAWA – As Canadians brace themselves for President Donald Trump’s «Liberation Day» of reciprocal tariffs on Wednesday, one political leader in Canada believes it could spark the start of a new era of Canada-U.S. relations free of cross-border taxes.
Maxime Bernier, who served as foreign affairs minister in former Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative government and now heads the right-wing People’s Party of Canada (PPC), told Fox News Digital in an interview from Halifax that it is «absolutely» the time for Canada to remove all tariffs against the U.S.
He said the 25% duties the Canadian government, under then-Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, imposed on the U.S. in early February to counter Trump’s 25% tariffs against Canada «won’t hurt the Americans – it is hurting Canadians.»
New Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said in a statement following his March 28 call with the president – the first contact between both leaders since Carney was elected Liberal leader by his party nearly three weeks before – that Canada would implement retaliatory tariffs in response to Wednesday’s U.S. «trade actions.»
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President Donald Trump, left, and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. (Getty Images)
The PPC leader said that Trump should be told that «the real reciprocal response» to tariffs is «zero on our side, zero on your side.»
Bernier said that instead, Carney and his main rival, Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre, are being «fake patriots using a dollar-for-dollar trade war against Trump» and telling Canadians: «That’s the best thing to do.»
«We cannot impose counter-tariffs,» said Bernier, who also served as industry minister in the Harper government.
«The Americans are 10 times bigger than us. We won’t win a trade war,» he said, underscoring that retaliation will lead to a recession in Canada.
Former Canadian Conservative politician Tony Clement, who served alongside Bernier in Harper’s Cabinet, told Fox News Digital that «from an economic point of view,» removing Canadian tariffs «makes a lot of sense» and «may come to that at some point, but the public isn’t there right now.»
«From a point of view of the emotional wounds of Canadians created by Trump and his annexation talk and tariffs, I’m not sure that a political voice would survive if it went down that public-policy route,» said Clement, a former Canadian industry minister in the Harper government.

Maxime Bernier, leader of the People’s Party of Canada, meets with his supporters at an election rally in Borden Park on Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. (Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
«The mood of the people is outrage. I’ve never seen people in Canada this incandescently mad at the United States,» he said, who is campaigning in the Toronto area for Poilievre’s Conservative Party ahead of the April 28 general election. «There is complete distrust of whatever Trump says because it can change within 24 hours.»
He said that both Poilievre and Carney have highlighted the importance of removing «the specter of tariffs for a long period of time – if you can trust Trump to be a bona fide negotiator.»
Eliminating Canadian tariffs, without a quid pro quo from Trump, could «show weakness to a bully,» added Clement, who, prior to entering federal politics in 2006, served as a Cabinet minister in former Ontario Premier Mike Harris’ Progressive Conservative government.
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Canadians hold an «Elbows Up» protest against U.S. tariffs and other policies by U.S. President Donald Trump, at Nathan Phillips Square in Toronto on March 22, 2025. (REUTERS/Carlos Osorio)
In the statement released following his recent conversation with Trump, Carney said that both leaders «agreed to begin comprehensive negotiations about a new economic and security relationship immediately following the election.»
Conservative strategist Yaroslav Baran, who served as communications chief for Harper’s successful Conservative 2004 leadership campaign, and director of war room communications for the Harper-led Tories during the 2004, 2006 and 2008 federal election campaigns, told Fox News Digital that under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), «trade in goods and services ought to be tariff-free» between Canada and the U.S., excluding carveouts on the Canadian side for dairy, eggs, poultry and softwood lumber.
However, Baran added that he «can’t see the removal of all Canadian tariffs on U.S. products as long as the U.S. has tariffs on Canadian products.»

Vehicles in line to cross into the United States at the Canada-U.S. border in St-Bernard-de-Lacolle, Quebec, Canada, on Thursday, March 6, 2025. President Donald Trump exempted Canadian goods covered by the USMCA from his 25% tariffs, offering major reprieves to the U.S.’ two largest trading partners. (Graham Hughes/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Bernier acknowledged that while Trump’s tariffs will hurt Canadian exporters to the U.S., «the solution is to have a more productive economy with real free-market reforms» in Canada through such measures as lowering corporate taxes, promoting internal trade and fostering growth in the country’s oil and gas industry, all of which are featured in the PPC’s election platform that includes the establishment of a «Department of Government Downsizing» to abolish «ideologically motivated programs that promote wokeism,» not unlike the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency.
The PPC leader also said that Canada should be willing to «put everything on the table» under the USMCA «right now» and before the trilateral trade deal is scheduled for a joint review next year.
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According to Bernier, that should include ending the «cartel» of supply management that sets quotas and prices, and protects Canada’s dairy, poultry and eggs sectors from foreign competition, which he described as «a communist system» that finds Canadians paying twice the price of those agricultural products than Americans do in the U.S., and which also imposes duties – ranging from 150% to 300% — on U.S. imports of the same products beyond limits agreed to but yet to be reached under the USMCA.
During the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement in 2018 that led to the USMCA, the first Trump administration sought to have Canada’s supply management system eliminated.
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UN delegates walk out of Netanyahu address after cheering Palestinian leader day before

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Delegates at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) stormed out Friday as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the stage and prepared to speak. The mass exit came after delegates spent days speaking about the situation in Gaza and proposals to end the nearly two-year war.
Their response to Netanyahu was a stark contrast to the long round of applause that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas received when he addressed the international body virtually on Thursday.
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Delegations walk out as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the 80th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) at U.N. headquarters in New York City, Sept. 26, 2025. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters)
On Friday, as Netanyahu began his address, he was speaking to a nearly empty hall. It is unclear exactly which delegations stayed in the chamber, though U.S. delegates were present.
While he did not have the attention of all the U.N. delegates, Netanyahu revealed in his speech that he was addressing a much wider audience. Netanyahu revealed that his speech was played on speakers surrounding the Gaza Strip and that it was being streamed to Gazans’ cell phones.

Empty seats as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the 80th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) at U.N. headquarters in New York City, Sept. 26, 2025. (Caitlin Ochs/Reuters)
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The prime minister revealed the wide reach of his address after giving the hostages a message in Hebrew and in English.
«Our brave heroes, this is Prime Minister Netanyahu speaking to you live from the United Nations,» he began. «We have not forgotten you, not even for a second. The people of Israel are with you. We will not falter, and we will not rest until we bring all of you home.»

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the 80th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) at U.N. headquarters in New York City, Sept. 26, 2025. (Jeenah Moon/Reuters)
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Netanyahu then turned his message to those holding the hostages in Gaza, including the leaders of Hamas, who could presumably hear his speech. He demanded the release of the 48 remaining hostages and gave an additional warning.
«Free the hostages now! If you do, you will live. If you don’t, Israel will hunt you down,» he said.
When Abbas spoke on Thursday, he slammed Israel’s «genocide» in Gaza, insisted his party is ready to take over the security and governance of the enclave and appealed to President Donald Trump for peace. He also demanded «full membership in the United Nations,» given that several European nations recognized a Palestinian state over the course of the UNGA.

PA President Mahmoud Abbas addressed UNGA virtually due to his visa being denied by the U.S. (David Dee Delgado/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
UN GIVES LONG ROUND OF APPLAUSE AFTER PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY PRESIDENT ACCUSES ISRAEL OF ‘GENOCIDE’
«Palestine is ours. Jerusalem is the jewel of our hearts and our eternal capital. We will not leave our homeland. We will not leave our lands,» Abbas declared.
Abbas may have had a bigger audience in the hall than Netanyahu, but he was unable to see it in person after the State Department refused to approve his visa to travel to New York for the conference, citing support of terrorism.
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This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
Fox News Digital’s Morgan Phillips contributed to this report.
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Lawmakers push Congress to condemn ‘escalation of attacks’ on ICE officers after Dallas shooting

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FIRST ON FOX: A group of lawmakers is urging Congress to formally condemn «violent attacks» against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as threats against federal facilities escalate.
It comes days after a shooter opened fire on an ICE facility in Dallas, killing one detainee and injuring two others before turning the gun on himself. Federal authorities have called it a targeted attack.
The resolution is being led by Rep. Russell Fry, R-S.C., Republican Study Committee Chair August Pfluger, R-Texas, and House Small Business Committee Chair Roger Williams, R-Texas.
«Since President Trump took office, there has been a rise in hostile rhetoric and violence directed against ICE facilities and officers,» their resolution said.
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Authorities revealed Joshua Jahn as the suspect who allegedly opened fire at a Dallas ICE facility on Thursday, Sept. 25, 2025. (Jeffrey McWhorter/Reuters;Fox News)
It noted the most recent shooting, including officials’ report that one of the bullet casings was inscribed with «ANTI-ICE» on it, and it listed seven other incidents or threats aimed at ICE facilities and offices that have occurred since June.
The resolution said «these acts reflect an escalation of attacks against ICE and federal immigration enforcement operations, including a 1,000 percent increase in assaults on ICE officers.»
It also lauded ICE’s efforts under the Trump administration while warning that «violent, ideologically motivated attacks on ICE not only endanger life, but undermine public trust in the rule of law and impair the capacity of ICE to carry out lawful missions.»
The resolution is largely symbolic and would be an expression of solidarity with ICE if passed by the House.
The recent Dallas ICE facility shooting has seen bipartisan condemnation, but such a measure could divide Democrats with its praise of the Trump administration’s efforts. Democrats have criticized what they have seen as overly harsh tactics in pursuit of President Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration.

FBI Director Kash Patel said investigators recovered these rounds from the scene in Dallas where a gunman opened fire on the local ICE field office on Sept. 24, 2025. (FBI)
House Democratic leaders released a joint statement after the shooting that read, in part, «No one in America should be violently targeted, including our men and women in law enforcement who protect and serve our neighborhoods, and the immigrants who are too often the victims of dehumanizing rhetoric.»
Fry, who led the resolution, told Fox News Digital, «It is unacceptable that ICE officers are being targeted for upholding the laws of this country. Congress must send a clear and unmistakable message: violent attacks will not be tolerated, reckless rhetoric will not be excused, and we will stand firmly with those who protect us every day.»
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Pfluger, who leads a 189-member group that acts as a de facto think tank for the House GOP, ripped the left but praised ICE.
«Radical leftists would rather see the criminal illegal aliens that the Biden administration let in our country continue to wreak havoc in our communities than support the brave men and women who put their lives on the line every single day to uphold our laws and defend American citizens,» he said.
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Williams told Fox News Digital, «The heinous targeted attacks on our ICE facilities and officers are unacceptable and must never be tolerated. These men and women put their lives on the line every day to uphold the rule of law, protect our borders, and keep American families safe.»
In a statement posted on X this week, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem blamed «toxic anti-ICE rhetoric from sanctuary politicians and radical activists» for the rise in threats against immigration authorities.
It comes amid an increase in high-profile political violence seen over the last year.
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