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00:00 Speaker A
President Donald Trump hosting Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney at the White House today for a meeting, and the two went back and forth and the avail availability of Canada.
00:17 Mark Carney
Having met with the owners of Canada over the course of the campaign, uh last several months, uh it it it’s not for sale, won’t be for sale, uh ever. Uh but the opportunity is in the partnership and the and and what we can build together. We have done that in the past and part of that, as the president just said, is with respect to our own security. Uh and my government is committed for a step change in our investment in Canadian security and our partnership. And I’ll say this as well, uh that the president has revitalized uh international security, revitalized NATO, uh and us playing our full weight uh in NATO and that will be part of this.
00:58 Donald Trump
And they have they have I must say Canada is stepping up their military uh participation because uh Mark knew, you know, they were low and now they’re stepping it up and that’s a very important thing. But never say never, never say never.
01:43 Speaker A
Yahoo finances is Ben Werschkul here with some of the details. Ben.
01:49 Ben Werschkul
Yes, um good to be with you, Josh. So yeah, so that um that clip you saw there was kind of emblematic of a meeting between Trump and Carney that was that showed sort of two men who were actually meeting in person for the very first time since Carney’s election, um trying to trying to be positive. You saw some sort of positive comments in there in the middle, but a clearly frayed US-Canada relationship that’s going to take quite a long time to repair. On that 51st state talk, which is what Carney and Trump were talking about, um Trump went on to offer an extended pitch for making Canada the 51st state, claiming annexation would be good for Canadians, something Carney has has disagreed with over and over again. The the bottom line here on kind of immediate term is in spite of a lot of the optimistic talk you hear from the administration and other issues, Jen laid a lot of that out. This meeting really showed that Canada and Canada and the US are quite a long ways. Both Trump and Carney were focused on a review of the USMCA. The deadline on that is July of 2026. So it’s it’s not a this week proposition for certain. Um although it was a two-hour meeting that both both sides seemed to sort of be happy with say was going forward. Um but Trump at the same time saying there was nothing Carney could say to change his views on tariffs. One one bit of reaction in the hours since Carney left in the last hour that I think is telling is the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, um which has been deeply critical of Trump over the tariffs, offered a statement that said they call this a relationship reset and then this could be momentum towards things down the road. But it’s clearly going to be a road to to repair the US-Canadian relationship.
03:49 Speaker A
Yeah, you know, Ben, with Trump and that rhetoric around the 51st state, I mean, you do wonder how that also plays with some of our allies. Overall, the tone though, Ben, you know, between these two, would you describe it as, you know, was it antagonistic or was it more constructive, positive? It did sound like they were, you know, willing to offer each other praise there.
04:13 Ben Werschkul
For sure. Yeah, they went they went both of them went out of their ways. Um Carney called Trump a transformational president. Um Trump went out of his way to praise the way Carney conducted his campaign, but that kind of antagonism that’s underneath did bubble up over and over again. It sort of in a 25-minute period, it was you could see it come up a few times. One thing that I think was a win for the Canadian side is that there wasn’t kind of open antagonism there. Trump at one point compared this this meeting today favorably to that notorious Oval Office blow up with Vladimir Zelensky where the two men were shouting each other. He said, “This one is much friendlier.”