Mark Carney has its own encounter at Oval with Donald Trump

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Many foreign leaders come to the Oval Office with a plan to flatter Donald Trump. When Canada Mark Carney arrived at the White House on Tuesday, he was the President of the United States.

Trump began the meeting with a compliance and a stroke of the Prime Minister who had just won the Canadian election.

“I think Canada He chose a very talented person, “the President said to the Oval Office.” I think we have many things in common. We have some difficult and difficult points to overcome, and that will be fine. “

Bonhomie’s initial marked the stage for a meeting of high holdings between Trump and Cardone that could have descended to A in a public place in the line of the famous meeting last month with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, given the President’s vocal thrust to turn Canada into the 51st American state and carefree of commercial tensions between countries.

In the case, Carney Trump politely heard his Canadian annexation dreams while JD Vance, the vice president, and Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State, sat quietly on a nearby sofa.

“It would really be a wonderful marriage because they are two places that get along very well. They like a lot,” said Trump. But in an apparent concession that this was unlikely to happen without the consent of Canada, he added: “It takes two to tango, right?”

Heating to his subject, he added: “I have had many, many things that were not feasible, and they ended up being feasible.

“If it is for the benefit of everyone, Canada loves us and we love Canada … Over time, we will see what happens.”

Carney, the former central banker who went to the electoral victory, launching -as a defender of Canada’s sovereignty in the middle of a wave of public fury in Trump’s advances, he rejecting the neighbor’s offer calmly but firmly.

“After meeting with the owners of Canada over the campaign in recent months, it is not for sale,” he said.

“(Canada) will never be for sale, but the opportunity is in collaboration and what we can build together.”

Returning home, many of the CARNEY compatriots are ready to leave collaboration as a whole, and they consider that the President of the United States has stepped on a line in the challenge of the state of his country.

But Carney is no longer campaigning. And the former Governor of the Bank of England who saw that the United Kingdom was cut off from its closest business partners, knows that for Canada, the United States and its customers are still critical, anyone who says the person in the White House.

The initial goodwill was tightened, as the President emphasized how he did not like Cardeau’s predecessor, as well as a “person working for him”, a little veiled reference to the former Minister of Commerce and Finance, Chrystia Freeland, who helped negotiate usmca trade agreement in Trump’s first term.

“He was a terrible person and hurt this treatment very badly,” said Trump.

The president also faced what he stated that it was the economic relationship “unequal” between the two countries: “Canada does much more business with us than we with Canada.

“They have a surplus with us, and there is no reason for subsidizing Canada. Canada is a place that will have to be able to take care of it economically.”

Carney later painted his visit to Washington as the beginning of a possible restoration in relationships that had been shot down under his predecessor, which Trump referred to “governor.”

“I feel better in relationships,” he told journalists on the roof of the Canadian embassy. “(But) we have more work to do.”

He admitted that in the closed doors he had told Trump to stop referring to Canada as 51st state. “I have been very clear in private. It was clear again in the oval office,” he said.

However, when asked what he thought while listening to the President, he described the border between the two countries as “that artificially drawn line … Someone drew this line many years ago with a ruler,” he smiled briefly and said, “I’m glad you couldn’t say what was going on through my mind.”