The Canadian Prime Minister is scheduled to go to Washington on Tuesday to meet the White House tenant, who has multiplied the protrusions against his country for months.
Follow the full coverage
Le Second Mandat de Donald Trump
After months of tension, the prospect of an lull? US President Donald Trump, who regularly attacks the Canadian government since his return to power in January, is due to receive his Prime Minister Mark Carney on Tuesday, May 6, May 6 on Tuesday May 6 (new window) in Washington. Faced with the repeated threats of annexation on the part of the White House, the Canadian manager, who has taken office for a barely a month and a half, hardened the tone, while wanting to preserve a form of “cooperation” With his neighbor. A delicate line that he will try to defend during an appointment that looks already crucial.
Mark Carney, who has just won the legislative elections in Canada, said his arrival in Washington on Friday at his first press conference after his electoral victory. “We will focus on both immediate commercial pressures and broader economic and security relations between our two sovereign nations”had he assured, adding that the relationship between the two neighbors would be there “Immediate priority” of his government.
The United States had delayed congratulating him on his victory, doing so until the day after the latter. “Relations between the United States and Canada remain one of the most developed in the world”however, the spokesperson for the State Department, Tammy Bruce had underlined to the press. Before ensuring that Washington “Awell to work” With Ottawa on “Key questions such as commercial equity, the fight against illegal immigration, the cessation of the circulation of fentanyl” notably.
Donald Trump always defends his “formidable” project to annex Canada
An apparently calmed tone, but which has not eclipsed groveling tensions for months between the two countries, the White House multiplying the attacks against its neighbor. Since his return to power, Donald Trump has constantly has been criticizing a commercial imbalance in the favor of Ottawa, which he imposed customs duties (new window) In particular on the automobile and steel. Above all, he hammers his desire to annex Canada and make it the 51st American state (new window)triggering the anger of the latter. In a provocative tone, he regularly described the predecessor of Mark Carney, Justin Trudeau, of simple “governor”.
But in recent days, the tempesty billionaire has seemed, as usual, blowing hot and cold. In a chain interview NBC (new window) Sunday, he said he called Mark Carney, whom he congratulated for his victory and that he described as “Very nice”while maintaining its desire to annex Canada. Asked if this surrealist project would be on the menu for discussions during the meeting, he assured that he “will always speak
