Carney to Meet With Trump on a High-Stakes Visit to the White House

A few days after winning an impressive choice on an Anti-Trump platform, Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada on Tuesday will meet with President Trump, who has imposed tariffs on Canada, the closest ally in the United States, the next neighbor and the best commercial partner.

With the relationship between the two Jirones countries, the two leaders will sit at the White House for their first face -to -face discussion, a high -risk encounter that could easily go aside.

Trump has affirmed that Canada does not serve to be independent due to its dependence on the trade and defense of the United States and has talked about making it part of the United States.

Carney was a political rookie who was swept to power because the Canadians saw him as a firm hand to negotiate with Mr. Trump and guide Canada through economic agitation due to his experience as a policy and executive trainer of the private sector.

Mr. Carney served a governor of the Bank of Canada, the global financial crisis of 2008 and the duration of the Bank of England, establishing itself as one of the most prominent central bankers in the world.

It faces an act of little enviable equilibrium.

The Canadians who risked with him will wait for the rhetoric that belittles and threatening against Canada, as he promised to do so.

But you will also have to avoid openly antagonize Mr. Trump in his work lunch or in front of journalists at the opportunity of the oval photos of the Oval office that will continue.

There was no firm agenda at the meeting. On Monday, Trump said “I wasn’t sure” of what Mr. Carney wanted to discuss. Canadian officials frame the meeting as a first step in the two leaders who familiarize themselves and begin conversations that would probably continue for a while.

Chemistry matters

As is the case of Mr. Trump, many things could reach his chemistry with Mr. Carney, which has not been tested.

The two may not be a natural combination. Mr. Carney is a former sometimes rigid banker, he knows not to suffer fools. He has revealed a campaign campaign a Snappish side, as well as a dry mood of bone, when pressed or cornered.

But he could win the respect of Mr. Trump for his experience in the private sector, he worked at Goldman Sachs for more than a decade and then in a leader of the Board Room for the main companies.

“I think he is a very pleasant man,” Trump or Mr. Carney said in an interview on the NBC program, “Meet The Press” on Sunday.

The Anodyne statement was an improvement in his feelings about Mr. Carney’s predecessor, Justin Trudeau. The two had a public fall in 2018, and the relationship never recovered.

Trudeau visited Mr. Trump after his re-election in Mar-A-Lago, when he was still prime minister, to declare his country’s case against tariffs.

Since then, Trump has said that, during that dinner, Mr. Trudeau told him that Canada would be crushed if the United States imposed tariffs. While Mr. Trudeau has never confirmed this version of events, Trump has cited Mr. Trudeau’s alleged statement to affirm that Canada does not serve to be a country because it is too much in the United States.

He began referring to Mr. Trudeau as “Governor Trudeau” and Canada as “State 51”.

Despite the most respectful language with respect to Mr. Carney, it was clear that Trump did not retire from his main claims over Canada.

“I am a boy of real -hearted goods,” he told NBC. “When I look at that artificial line that was drawn with a rule many years ago, it was just an artificial line, it is directly directed. You not only realize. What a beautiful country would it be.”

What are the problems?

In a call with Mr. Trudeau in February, Trump said he did not like the border treaty between the two nations, a claim that is repeated publicly since he repeated and raised doubts about the water exchange agreements of the two countries.

President’s statements suggest that he is watching a renegotiation of the agreements that regulate the relationship between the two nearby neighbors, a worrying perspective for Canada, which would enter conversations such as the weakest party.

“The United States wants our land, our resources, our water, our country,” said Carney in his acceptance speech last week. “President Trump is trying to break us so he can own us. That will never happen.”

Trump has imposed tariffs on many Canadian goods, but some goods that had legs scheduled for tariffs have exempt bones as he has changed his mind, spreading confusion.

Canada has applied retaliation rates against US goods, the only country that takes that step in addition to China, Althegh. Mr. Carney has said that there is a limit for this approach.

The United States, Canada and Mexico have long had a free trade agreement, now known as USMCA, which is in tingling. Renegotiar a new agreement is one of Mr. Carney’s objectives.

“We subsidize Canada to a sum of $ 200 billion a year,” Trump told NBC on Sunday, citing an incorrect figure on the commercial balance of the two countries. Actually, the United States last year, a commercial deficit of $ 63.3 had one billion commercials with Canada, cordination to the United States government data. When Canadian oil exported to the United States is excluded, the United States has a surplus.

Trump has complained that Canada is a lag in military spending in NATO, which has an objective for its members or committing 2 percent of economic production to defense. Mr. Carney has promised to achieve that goal for the end of this decade.

And Trump has said that Canadian industries such as dairy and banking are unfairly protected, which makes access to US competitors more difficult.

Many elements of the relationship that Mr. Trump says they are unfair, were agreed as part of the commercial agreement that he negotiated and signed in his first mandate.