Donald Trump receives the new Canadian prime minister on Tuesday, May 6, Mark Carney, taken to power on Tuesday, May 6, with a promise to face the US President, but who will have to keep him pointing to whether he wants to tear a commercial commitment start. The interview could be tense to listen to the United States Minister in Commerce on Monday, Howard Lutnick.
“Communist regime”
When asked about the Fox Business Channel about the possibility of a customs commitment, this very faithful ally of Donald Trump replied that it would be “very complicated”, describing Canada as a “communist regime” that “feeds at our cost.” “It will be a fascinating encounter,” he predicted.
We should not expect “white smoke” at the end of the meeting, warned the new Canadian leader on Friday, using a topical metaphor in these times of conclave.
According to him, the ancient relationship between the two countries based on the “growing integration” is “finished”, and it is about knowing how “our nations will cooperate in the future.”
Faced with him, the US president considers himself in a position of force, after having suspended the threat of 25%generalized customs duties over Canada and Mexico, in addition to the sectoral taxes that he has already imposed, in particular in steel and aluminum.
“Very friendly”
“I imagine that he wants to conclude an agreement,” said Donald Trump on Monday about his visitor. Last week, he described the new head of the Canadian government as a “very understanding man”, an incomparably more led tone than that of former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, for whom the Republican billionaire has a fierce antipathy.
Mark Carney, winner last week of the legislative elections, while her training, the Liberal Party, was still a few months ago that promised a bitter defeat, summed up her delicate negotiation position on Friday.
“My government will fight to obtain the best (commercial) agreement. It will take the necessary time, but no more,” said the liberal, a former central banker experienced in crisis management that, for example, had the helm of the Bank of England in the Brexit storm.
Technocrat without campaign experience, Mark Carny owes his choice to Donald Trump.
Since his return to power, the latter has launched particularly violent political attacks against Canada, repeating that gigantic countries were condemned to become State 51 of the United States.
“This is a very important moment for (the new Canadian leader), since he hammered during the campaign that could face Donald Trump,” Gineviève Tellier, a political scientist at the University of Ottawa, told AFP.
G7 Summit in Canada in June
“It must be well to leave a chance for the future,” continues the analyst, for whom the worst scenario would be a public altercation, as Donald Trump has opposed the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, in the Oval office.
The Prime Minister, with a measured temperament and the prudent expression, has a personality very different from that of the United States, but also that, very extroverted, by Justin Trudeau.
The United States and Canada are bound by a free trade agreement concluded during Donald Trump’s first term, which, according to some analysts, could be reviewed.
But renegotiating the text would be a long and complicated process that is not very compatible with the US president to quickly conclude commercial “spectacular agreements”.
Tuesday’s interview with Mark Carney will also serve as a barometer before the G7 summit, planned in Canada in June, gathering the country’s leaders, particularly pushed by Donald Trump from his return to power.
The group of 7 brings together Germany, Canada, the United States, France, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom. The European Union is also represented there.
Source: BFM TV
