Only a few days after winning a stunning election on an Anti-Trump platform, Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada will meet President Trump on Tuesday, who has imposed rates on Canada, the best ally of America, neighbor and top trading partner, and repeatedly threatened his sovereignty.
With the relationship between the two countries in doors, the two leaders in the White House will sit for their first face-to-face discussion, a meeting with high effort that could easily go aside.
Mr. Trump has claimed that Canada does not deserve to be independent because of his dependence on American trade and defense and spoke about making the part of the United States.
Mr Carney was a political beginner who was swept into power because Canadians saw him as a steady hand to negotiate with Mr Trump and Canada through economic unrest because of his background as a policy maker and director of the private sector.
Mr Carney served a Governor of the Bank of Canada during the worldwide financial crisis of the Bank of England during the Brexit and settled as one of the world’s most prominent central bankers.
He is confronted with a non -enviable balance.
Canadians who have taken a chance for him will expect that he would push back on the smaller and threatening rhetoric of Mr. Trump against Canada, as he promised he would do that.
But he will also have to prevent Mr. Trump openly encounters in their work lunch or for journalists in the Oval Office photomans that will follow.
There was no solid agenda that entered the meeting. On Monday, Mr. Trump said that he “was not sure” what Mr Carney wanted to discuss. Canadian officials have drawn up the meeting as a first step in the two leaders who became knowledge and starting discussions that would probably take place for a while.
Chemistry is important
As is often the case with Mr. Trump, there could be a lot on his chemistry with Mr. Carney, who has not been tested.
The two may not be a natural match. Mr Carney is a sometimes stiff former banker, who is known to have no fools. He has unveiled a Snappish side campaign, as well as a bone-dry sense of humor, when pressed or cornered.
But he could respect Mr. For his experience in the private sector-Hij, Trump worked for more than a decade at Goldman Sachs and was later a management parlor for large companies.
“He is a very nice man, I think,” Mr. Trump said about Mr Carney in an interview about the NBC program, “Meet the Press” on Sunday.
Anodyne’s statement was an improvement compared to his feelings about the predecessor of Mr. Carney, Justin Trudeau. The two had A public outages in 2018And the relationship has never been restored.
After his re-election in Mar-A-Lago, Mr. Trudeau visited Mr Trudeau, when he was still prime minister to argue at the case of his country at rates.
Mr Trump has since said that during that dinner Mr. Trudeau told him that Canada would be crushed if the United States would impose rates. Although Mr. Trudeau has never confirmed this version of the events, Mr Trump cited Mr. Trudeau’s supposed statement to claim that Canada does not deserve to be a country because it is overly dependent on the United States.
He began to refer to Mr. Trudeau as ‘Governor Trudeau’ and Canada as ‘the 51st state’.
Despite the more respectful language with regard to Mr Carney, it was clear that Mr Trump did not withdraw to his most important claims about Canada.
“I am a real estate in heart and soul,” he said NBC. “If I look down at that artificial line that was signed with a ruler many years ago – was just an artificial line, goes straight ahead. You don’t even realize. What a beautiful country would it be.”
What are the problems?
On a call with Mr. Trudeau in FebruaryMr. Trump said that he did not like the border treaty between the two nations, a claim that he has since publicly repeated, and has collected doubts about the similarities of the two countries.
The statements of the President suggest that he is looking at a re -negotiation of the agreements that arrange the relationship between the two neighbors, a worrying prospect for Canada, that would be conversations as the weaker party.
“America wants our country, our resources, our water, our country,” Mr Carney said in his acceptance speech Last week. “President Trump tries to break us so that he can possess us. That will never happen.”
Mr. Trump has imposed rates on many Canadian goods, but some goods that were planned for rates are exempt because he has changed thoughts and has spread confusion.
Canada has applied retribution rates against American goods, the only country that took that step next to China, although Mr Carney said that there is a limit to this approach.
The United States, Canada and Mexico have long had a free trade agreement, now known as USMCA, which is in deck. Re -negotiating a new deal is one of Mr Carney’s goals.
“We subsidize Canada to an amount of $ 200 billion a year,” Mr Trump told NBC on Sunday, referring to an incorrect figure about the trade balance of the two countries. In reality, the United States last year had a trade deficit of $ 63.3 billion with Canada, according to US government data. When the Canadian oil exported to the United States is excluded, America has a surplus.
Mr. Trump complained that Canada is a lagging for military editions in NATO, which has an objective for members of committing 2 percent of the economic output for defense. Mr Carney has promised to achieve that goal towards the end of this decade.
And Mr. Trump said that Canadian industries such as Dairy and Banking are unfairly protected, making access to American competitors harder.
Many elements of the relationship that Mr Trump says are unfair, have been agreed as part of the trade agreement on which he negotiated and signed in his first term.
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