Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada said on Friday that he would travel next week to meet President Trump for a high-stakes meeting between the two leaders of countries whose once Close Friendship has collapsed in the midst of a trade war and the threats of Mr Trump for the sovereignty of Canada.
Mr Carney also announced that King Charles III would visit Canada later this month, his first trip to the country since Charles’s Coronation two years ago. The news of the journey, which was also announced by Buckingham Palace, is seen by analysts as a clear reprimand for calls by Mr Trump to make Canada the 51st state because Charles is also the official head of state.
Mr Carney, the former leader of the central banks of England and Canada, led the liberal party to the victory in Monday’s national elections, in which dealing with Mr Trump, his rates about Canadian exports and His repeated talk about making Canada Another state was high in the heads of voters.
The warlike campaign of the Trump government against Canada, Mr Carney said, made it clear that Canada should negotiate new deals about the United States on different issues, including economic and safety alliances.
“Our old relationship, based on steadily increasing integration, is over,” Mr Carney told reporters in Ottawa during his first press conference after the elections. “The questions are now how our nations will work together in the future and where we will continue in Canada.”
Mr Carney said he had asked Charles to give a speech on 27 May to open a new session of the Canadian parliament because it “emphasizes the sovereignty of Canada as a nation.” When a new parliament meets, the opening speech, which contains the legislative agenda of the ruling party, is normally read by the Governor General, the representative of the king in Canada.
“This is a historical honor that corresponds to the weight of our time,” said Mr. Carney. Queen Elizabeth, who gave the address in 1977, was the last English monarch that did this.
As he did during the campaign, Mr Carney said that the idea of becoming a member of the United States would not be the subject of negotiations with Mr. Trump when they met Tuesday.
“The Canadian people clearly saidAlmost without exception, this will never happen, “Mr Carney said, adding that Mr Trump did not mention a state this week during a call between the leaders.
He said he was planning to discuss various American rates against Canadian exports, including on vehicles, car parts, steel and aluminum, which endanger tens of thousands of jobs. Military expenditures would also be on the agenda, he said.
“It will be a complex negotiation,” said Mr. Carney.
“I don’t pretend that those discussions will be easy,” he added. “They don’t go into a straight line. There will be Zigs and Zags, UPS and Downs.”
Mr Carney underlined the fall-out the rates of Mr Trump already caused a announcement of General Motors on Friday that said it reduced production in a pick-up truck-assemblage factory in Oshawa, Ontario.
Unifor, the trade union that represents employees in the factory, estimates that around 2,200 employees will lose their jobs by eliminating one of the shifts in the factory.
Stellantis, which closed a factory in Windsor, Ontario, for two weeks when the car rates of Mr. Trump came into force last month and around 3,500 employees stationals, on Friday said it had closed the factory for another week.
Mr Carney responded to Mr Trump’s levies by applying retribution rates to vehicles from the United States.
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