Event22 October 2025Statement

Carney sets a goal to double Canada's non-US exports over the next decade

In an evening address to Canadians on 22 October 2025, Prime Minister Mark Carney set a goal for Canada to double its non-US exports in the next decade, the Associated Press reported in a story carried by PBS News. Carney said many of Canada's former strengths, based on close ties to America, had become vulnerabilities, and that the US had raised its tariffs "to levels last seen during the Great Depression." "We have to take care of ourselves because we can't rely on one foreign partner," he said. Budget 2025, tabled on 4 November 2025, restated the target: "Canada is setting a new goal to double non-U.S. exports over the next decade, generating $300 billion more in trade."

Date

22 October 2025

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Statement

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Who

Mark Carney (spoke)

Sources

• PBS News (Associated Press), “Carney says Canada will aim to double its non-U.S. exports amid economic tensions” (external site), 23 October 2025. source record
• Department of Finance Canada, “Budget 2025, Chapter 2” (external site), 4 November 2025. source record

Claims that rest on this event

• SupportsMechanism

  At home, new pipelines are sold as a way to reach buyers outside the US: in an Angus Reid poll, 55% picked 'sell oil outside the US' as a persuasive reason (several answers were allowed). So the link from the build-out to more output flowing south has to come from contracts and tariff design, not from the rally.

  Government frames the goal as non-US exports.

• ComplicatesMechanism

  The build-out only makes sense if the builders expect continued access to the US market: C-39's rail-competition clause for the Prairies takes effect only 'when there is a reliable trading relationship with the United States', and the firm new oil capacity runs south.

  Stated goal is less US dependence.

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