Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, told President Donald Trump on Tuesday that his country will never be on sale, closing the repeated calls of the president of the United States to make Canada the State 51.
“There are some places that are never on sale,” said Carney at the Oval office.
Canada is “not for sale” and “won to be on sale,” said Prime Minister.
Trump replied: “Never say.”
When asked if Carney’s rejection of the idea of the state hood made commercial conversations between the United States and Canada more difficult, Trump said he did not.
But “time will say,” Trump added. “It’s just the moment. But I say, never say.”
Later, Carney made her position equally clearer. “Respectful, the opinion of the Canadians about this will not change in state 51,” he said.
The exchange followed mainly cordial comments between Trump and Carney, and both leaders maintained a polite disposition while reiterating their positions.
Shortly before the arrival of Carney to the White House, however, Trump sharply questioned the commercial relationship of the United States with Canada.
Trump said in Truth Social that he was eager to meet and work with Carney, but “Can’t understand” why the United States is “subsidizing Canada at $ 200 billion a year, in addition to giving them a free army?”
Trump has long complained about US commercial deficits with their commercial partners, and has previously launched similar claims against Canada. A Trump official told CNN in January that the claim of $ 200 billion of Trump was mainly based on the US defense spending that benefits from Canada, and the reminder comes from the commercial deficit with Canada.
The United States commercial deficit with Canada was $ 63.3 billion last year, with more than $ 400 billion in Canadian goods imported to us, according to the Office of the United States Commercial Representative.
“We do not need your cars, we do not need energy, we do not need your wood, we do not need anything they have, apart from their friendship, which we hope they always maintain,” Trump wrote.
“They, on the other hand, need everything of us! The prime minister will arrive shortly and that will be, most likely, my only matter of consequence,” Trump wrote.
The hostile welcome by Carney arrived a day after Trump minimized expectations for the meeting.
“He comes to see me. I’m not sure he sees me, but I guess he hear a deal. They all do it,” Trump said Monday in response to a question about Carney’s visit.
The Secretary of Commerce of the United States, Howard Lutnick, painted Canada as little more than an economic leech in the United States.
“They have a basic diet of us for decades and decades to decades,” Lutnick said in a Fox Business interview, the day before Carney’s visit. “They have their socialist regime and basically feeds on America.”
Last year, Canada negotiated with the United States more than any other country, except Mexico, with a total trade of goods for a total of approximately $ 762 billion, according to Ustr.
But the commercial relationship has been hesitated since Trump has imposed pronounced tariffs on Canadian goods.
Canadian exports to the United States fell 6.6% in March, while their exports to other countries fired almost 25%, said Statistics Canada on Tuesday.
Trump’s tariffs, together with its expansionist, asks the United States to absorb Canada as a state and its insults and regular accusations, have altered the Canadian policy.
The Liberal Carney Party won enough seats last week in Parliament to form the next government, after months of following the conservatives in the surveys. Three months after Trump’s mandate, Canadian elections were considered a rejection of Trump and the increase in Canadian pride.
Bruce Heyman, the former American ambassador to Canada, said Tuesday “Squawk Box” of CNBC that the meeting has high bets for both Carney and Trump, who have promised that they can negotiate commercial agreements of advantage with individual countries.
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