The Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced President Donald Trump on Tuesday that his country would never be for sale and concludes the repeated calls of the US President to the 51st state to close the US president.
“There are some places that are never for sale,” said Carney in the Oval Office.
Canada is “not for sale” and “will never be for sale,” said the prime minister.
Trump replied: “Never say.”
When asked whether Carney's rejection of the idea of statehood, trade discussions between the USA and Canada made more difficult, Trump said that this was not the case.
But “time will say,” added Trump. “It's just time. But I say, never say.”
Carney later made even clearer. “Respectfully that the Canadians' view will not change the 51st state,” he said.
The exchanges mainly followed warm initial comments between Trump and Carney, and both leaders kept a polite arrangement while repeating their positions.
Shortly before Carney's arrival in the White House, Trump strongly questioned the trade relationship of the United States with Canada.
Trump said about the social of truth that he was looking forward to meeting Carney and working with the cooperation, but that he “not understand” why the USA “can subsidize Canada by $ 200 billion per year, in addition to free military protection and many other things?”
Trump has been complaining about US trade deficits with his trading partners for a long time and previously thrown similar demands against Canada. A Trump officer announced in January that Trump's claims were mainly based on the US defense spending, which benefits Canada, the rest of the trade deficit with Canada.
The American trade deficit with Canada was 63.3 billion US dollars last year, with Canadian goods worth more than 400 billion US dollars to be imported into the USA, according to the US trade representative.
“We don't need your cars, we don't need your energy, we don't need your wood, we don't need anything you have, except for your friendship, which we hopefully always maintain,” wrote Trump.
“On the other hand, you need everything from us! The prime minister will arrive shortly and that will most likely be my only question of the episode,” wrote Trump.
The unfriendly reception for Carney came a day after Trump had downplayed the expectations for the meeting.
“He comes to see me. I am not sure what he wants to see me about, but I think he wants to do a deal. Everyone does it,” Trump said on Monday as an answer to a question about Carney's visit.
The US trade secretary Howard Lutnick painted Canada as little more than an economic leech in the United States.
“We have fed us from us for decades for decades for decades,” said Lutnick the day before Carney's visit to a Fox business interview. “You have your socialist regime and it basically feeds on America.”
Last year, Canada acted more with the United States than in any other country except Mexico, whereby, according to the Uttr, the entire goods trade in the amount of around 762 billion US dollars was.
However, the trade relationship has stalled because Trump has imposed Canadian goods steep tariffs.
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Canadian exports to the USA declined by 6.6% in March, while exports rose to other countries by almost 25%, said Statistics Canada on Tuesday.
Trump's tariffs, together with his expansionist, calls on America to take Canada as a state and its regular insults and accusations, Canadian politics have excited.
Carney's liberal party won enough seats in parliament last week to form the next government after tracing months behind conservatives in surveys. Three months after Trump's term of office, the Canadian elections were regarded as a rejection of Trump and an increase in Canadian pride.
Bruce Heyman, the former US ambassador to Canada, told CNBCs “Squawk Box” on Tuesday that the meeting considers high operations for both Carney and Trump, which have promised that he can negotiate beneficial trade agreements with individual countries.
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