Canadian PM Carney Reveals What Trump Demanded From Canada for a Trade Deal | AC1G
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and instability in the US bond market . Well, let me let me say a couple things . Uh No. Uh in terms what what we're focused on as you know is is is building Canada strong . It's it's putting Canada in a better position for Canadians for all Canadians . Now, it happens to be the case that we are stronger and we're in a better position than we were 18 months ago because we've recognized right from the start that we needed to focus on building at home . We needed to diversify abroad . Both of those have longer payoffs , but we're already starting to see some of the benefits of that. W . We recognized and credit to the Minister of Finance . We recognized right from the start that we need to continue to maintain the strongest fiscal position in the G7 so that our borrowing and we will borrow, but borrow ing for investment not for operating expenses . And that shift in borrowing there . And let me make this point , you know this well that we are entering a phase where fiscal strength discipline focus is going to be very important . It's going to be scrutinized . I mean, it doesn't I will say to Canadians home like as someone who's been in and around financial markets for a long period of time , what I'm about to say doesn't make sense , but it's the way the world works is that markets sometimes ignore these fundamentals . And then all of a sudden they focus on them . And when they focus on them , if you don't have your house in order , it's too late . We have our house in order