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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney told Donald Trump that his country was “not for sale” when he rejected the US President's pressure to make the 51st American state on Tuesday at a meeting in the White House.
“As you know in real estate, there are places that are never for sale”, ” Carney said to Trump in a mainly friendly exchange in the oval office. “Having met the owners of Canada during the campaign … It is not for sale. It will never be for sale,” he said.
But in a sign that tensions are likely to persist between Washington and Ottawa, Trump replied by saying: “Never say.”
The meeting at the White House was the first meeting in person from Carney won the Canadian elections Last month on a loyal anti-Trump platform.
The hostility of the American president towards his northern neighbor – with repeated threats to annex Canada and the taxation of prices in violation of a free trade agreement – dominated the Canadian electoral campaign and helped to propel the Liberal Party of Carney to victory.
But Asset opened the conversation with a friendly joke on Carney's victory. “I think I was the greatest thing that happened to him,” he said, adding: “It was probably one of the greatest feedbacks in the history of politics, perhaps even more than mine.”
He then 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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