After his meeting of the Oval office under the glow of television lights, Prime Minister Mark Carney and his American counterpart retired to Roosevelt room for a work lunch on Tuesday. Much of the talk at eating were foreign policy issues, according to a senior Canadian official.
The two leaders got along quite well, said the official, and the president emphasized at the beginning and end of lunch that it was an honor to receive the new prime minister at the White House.
Trump said at that time that he considered the discussions of the day as “excellent”, coincident comments that he then told the White House Press pool.
“He is a pleasant man. We got very good. We had a great meeting today, really. I think the relationship will be very strong,” Trump said about Carney.
While there were subtleties, Carney was clear with Trump in private, as he was in his public statements before the press, which Canada and the United States joined as a country is not one of the parties, according to the official, who spoke with CBC News and other reporters who travel with the prime minister in the background and with the condition that they are not named.
Carney told reporters that he personally asked Trump to stop with the annexationist talk.
During a press conference in Washington after his meeting with the president of the United States, Donald Trump, Prime Minister Mark Carney said that the tariffs are defending and that “considerable efforts” have been made to increase border security, specifically with respect to the fentanyl. Carney added that there is ‘more work to do’ in the case that rates are not good for Americans either.
But the Canadian delegation left the meeting with a clearer understanding that the president really believes that it would be a good idea that Canada becomes state 51: these are not only comments designed to provoke, the official said.
However, Trump admitted that “takes two to tango” and is not likely to happen with the vast majority of people in this country firmly oppose.
The prime minister also transmitted to the president during lunch that his tariffs on Canadian goods should dismantle if there is going to be a new commercial agreement between the two countries, as both leaders discussed what the official should exist. Any commercial “agreement” for Canada must include the US. Uu. Raising their rates.
While Carney, his team and most Canadians at home were seized with the 51st mockery of the state and Trump’s punishing rates, the president himself was anxious to break the bread with Carney and discuss global problems that are being developed under his surveillance, namely the War of Russia-Ukraine, the hostility with China and the situation in Iran, the official said.
The official said Trump wanted to obtain Carney’s perspective about the problems with which the president is worried, since he tries to fulfill his campaign promise to quickly end the war against Ukraine and reduce Iran’s nuclear ambitions, two problems that are proven to be particularly challenging for the administration.
Trump also asked Carney to intervene in Israel and Gaza, although there was a relatively little talked about that problem, said the official, and the hutis in Yemen, of which the president spoke throughout the cameras of the White House in the public part of his meeting.
The fact that the president requested the contributions of Carney in these archives, said the official, as an “encouraging signal” that Trump respects the new leader of Canada and considers it the same.
It is normal for world leaders to discuss foreign policy issues and bounce the ideas with each other, and Trump’s willingness to do it with Carney at his first meeting was another proof point that the day was a relative success, said the official.
Trump did not have a specific application of Canada in these foreign archives, said the official.
Prime Minister Mark Carney called his first face -to -face meeting with the president of the United States, Donald Trump, “broad” and “constructive”, although Trump says there is nothing that Canada can do to eliminate US tariffs.
While world issues took a large part of lunch, Carney and Trump also talked about problems closer home, including fentanyl, the apparent reason why the United States slapped large tariffs in Canada, Mexico and China earlier this year.
The official said that Trump is personally very “familiar” on the subject and the two leaders had a fairly detailed discussion about the posters and supply chains that are feeding the drug crisis. Only in Canada there have been 50,928 deaths of apparent opioid toxicity since 2016.
One of Trump’s main advisors, Stephen Miller, was present for lunch and also talked about the drug problem, said the official.
Carney used the conversation’s fentanyl part to gently press the point that Canada is not an important drug source, and the border plan of one billion dollars of the government has resulted in a significant decrease in the flow of narcotics and illegal migrants, the official said.
The latest Customs and Border Protection figures in the United States (CBP) show five kilograms of fentanyl have seized the border between the north of the United States so far this year, compared 3,040 kilograms in the southwest.
Canada’s border progress should lead to fentanyl -related tariffs, Carney told Trump, according to the official.
It is clear that it will be a conversation for another day, said the official.
The former Canadian diplomat Colin Robertson says that the experience and preparation were essential for Prime Minister Mark Carney to sail for his meeting with US President Donald Trump in the White House.
In addition to the fentanyl, the president showed a particular interest in the Arctic, said the official.
And, at one time, the conversation depended on energy and critical minerals: Canada topics is always happy to speak because it shows Americans that this bilateral relationship is not only about trade but also security and defense, said the official.
In his public comments, Trump said he was happy to hear that Canada will spend more on defense and acknowledged that the country buys many teams made in the United States.
“We are protecting Canada if he ever had a problem,” he said.
