Mark Carney tells Donald Trump Canada that he is “not for sale”

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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney told Donald Trump that his country was not “for sale”, as he rejected the President of the United States’ push to turn Canada into the 51st North -American State during a meeting at the White House on Tuesday.

“As you know about real estate property, there are some places that are never for sale.” Carney Told Trump in a majority of coexistence in the Oval Office. “After meeting with the owners of Canada throughout the campaign … it is not for sale. It will never be on sale,” he said.

But with a sign that tensions are likely to persist between Washington and Ottawa, Trump responded by saying, “Never say.”

The meeting at the White House was the first meeting in person from CARNEY won the Canadian election Last month on an anti-trump platform.

The hostility of the President of the United States to his northern neighbor, with repeated threats to annex Canada and the imposition of rates in violation of a free trade agreement, dominated the Canadian election campaign and helped to promote the Cardney Liberal Party on victory.

Only Trump Opened the conversation with a friendly quip about CARNEY victory. “I think I was the biggest thing that happened to her,” he said, adding: “He was probably one of the greatest soakes in the history of politics, perhaps even bigger than mine.”

Then he described the Prime Minister as a “very talented person, a very good person.”

“I have a lot of respect for this man,” he added.

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