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Mark Carney has had a short honeymoon since her victory in Canada's elections.
Just over a week after launching the return of his Liberal party, the Prime Minister Will meet US President Donald Trump Tuesday for crucial talks overshadowed by an imminent trade war and rumbles of the Brexit style rebellion at home.
The hostility of the American president to 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 propel the Liberal Party of Carney to victory.
The former governor of the central bank promised that Trump “would never break” CanadaAnd said that Ottawa would seek to forge new commercial alliances.
Now he must find a way to repair relations with his country's largest trading partner.
“Carney certainly enters the lion's den,” said Dimitry Anastakis, professor at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. “This is a delicate operation. During the campaign, he said very strident things about Trump and the United States.”
But for all Carney's combat speeches, the annual annual negotiation relationship of 1.3 TN C (940 billion US dollars) is crucial for the economy of his country. Canada sells most of its products and services in the United States.
Despite the hopes of resetting bilateral relations under Carney, Trump said in a interview With NBC on Sunday, he would speak of “always” to make Canada the 51st American state and repeated a list of grievances on the country's wood, energy and automotive industries.
“We do very little business with Canada. They do all their business practically with us. They need us. We don't need it, “he said.
Meanwhile, the Prime Minister is also faced with a challenge by Trump Prime Minister, Alberta, Danielle Smith, who visited the American president of her residence in Mar-A-Lago in January.
In the wake of Carney's victory, she raised the specter of separation from Alberta rich in oil, electoral deposit reform “Strengthen democracy” which facilitated the referendum on independence by half reducing the required number of signatures for a petition requiring a ballot to only 10% of eligible voters.
“The vast majority of these people are not marginal voices to be marginalized or vilified … They are, literally, our friends and neighbors who just have enough to have their livelihoods and their prosperity attacked by a hostile federal government,” she said in an online address on Monday evening.
In April, before the elections, the survey of Angus Reid find Three out of 10 voters in Alberta and Saskatchewan said they would like to leave Canada if the liberals formed the next government.
Although it has long been dissatisfaction in the western provinces of Canada about Ottawa governance, which is thousands of kilometers in the east, Alberta was a particularly vocal critic of the Liberal Party and its environmental policies under former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Although Carney has moved away from the approach of its predecessor and is committed to making Canada an energy “superpower” – with the Alberta oil and gas sector looking at enormous potential to find new markets for their fossil fuel reserves – resentment about federal energy policy remains a rich seam for politicians in the province.
After meeting Carney last week, Smith poster On X: “The repair of damage to the economy of Alberta caused by the last 10 years of the legislation and anti-resource policies of Ottawa will make enormous efforts and cooperation.”
Carlo Dade, a principal researcher at the Canada West Foundation group, said that although there was a lot of anger and frustration in Alberta, the last epidemic was not unprecedented.
“Alberta must work with the new government, but am I particularly alarmed by looking at the wider band in Canadian history? I think that is in what we have treated,” he said.
Carney's task in Washington is a more immediate challenge. As one of the few foreign leaders at Hold on TrumpAll eyes will be on its reception in the White House on Tuesday.
“Trump has repeated exaggerated affirmations on trade deficits, calling them a form of grant, so Carney faces a difficult conversation,” Semra Sevra, professor of political science at the University of Toronto, said.
“The last thing (he) wants is a rehearsal of the tense visit to Zelenskyy's house in the White House.”
