Trump tangos with Carney: Why US-Canada relations could thaw post-Trudeau

Trump tangos with Carney: Why US-Canada relations could thaw post-Trudeau


The first meeting between Mark Carney as Canada’s elected prime minister and President Donald Trump could have gone better, but it was far from a disaster.

Trump opened the May 6 press conference that preceded the more formal White House meeting by congratulating Carney on winning a “very big election in Canada” at the beginning of the previous week.

Trump noted that Carney’s Liberal Party “was losing by a lot, and he ended up winning.” He called it “probably one of the greatest comebacks in the history of politics, maybe even greater than mine.”

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Carney took hold of a Liberal Party that had been written off prior to the late April election and closed a 20-point gap in the polls to win 43.8% of all

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