After profitable in final week’s election with a promise to push again in opposition to U.S. President Donald Trump’s commerce and sovereignty threats, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney had his first high-stakes assembly with Trump on the White Home on Tuesday.
In entrance of the cameras within the Oval Workplace, the 2 males appeared pleasant, with no signal of the sort of animus seen through the now-infamous dustup between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and the U.S. president in that very same room again in February. However though Trump congratulated Carney on his victory and insisted that “no matter something, we’re going to be pals with Canada,” neither facet appeared keen to make quick concessions to enhance the 2 nations’ quickly deteriorating bilateral relations.
After profitable in final week’s election with a promise to push again in opposition to U.S. President Donald Trump’s commerce and sovereignty threats, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney had his first high-stakes assembly with Trump on the White Home on Tuesday.
In entrance of the cameras within the Oval Workplace, the 2 males appeared pleasant, with no signal of the sort of animus seen through the now-infamous dustup between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and the U.S. president in that very same room again in February. However though Trump congratulated Carney on his victory and insisted that “no matter something, we’re going to be pals with Canada,” neither facet appeared keen to make quick concessions to enhance the 2 nations’ quickly deteriorating bilateral relations.
On the prime of the agenda was the U.S. commerce battle on Canada. Since taking workplace, Trump has imposed a slew of tariffs on Canadian items, together with steel and aluminum. When requested by a reporter if there may be something that Carney can say at the moment to vary Trump’s thoughts, Trump remained absolute: “No. That’s the best way it’s.”
Among the many most inflammatory statements of Tuesday’s Oval Workplace assembly, although, have been the 2 leaders’ feedback on Canadian sovereignty. Trump reiterated that he nonetheless desires to make Canada the 51st U.S. state. He careworn his historical past as an actual property developer, referred to the U.S.-Canada border as an “artificially drawn line,” and joked about his previous habits of referring to former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as “governor.”
In response, Carney doubled down on his opposition to Canadian statehood. “As from actual property, there are some locations which might be by no means on the market,” Carney advised Trump, including that Ottawa is “not on the market. It received’t be on the market, ever.”
“By no means say by no means” was Trump’s response.
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