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 form of animus seen throughout 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 mates with Canada,” neither aspect appeared keen to make speedy 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 form of animus seen throughout 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 mates with Canada,” neither aspect appeared keen to make speedy 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 right now 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 needs to make Canada the 51st U.S. state. He burdened 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 conduct of referring to former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as “governor.”
In response, Carney doubled down on his opposition to Canadian statehood. “As you understand from actual property, there are some locations which might be by no means on the market,” Carney instructed 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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