Melanie Joly, Minister of Industry, and Dominic LeBlanc, Minister responsible for Canada-U.S. Trade, were among the few ministers made available to the media at the Liberal cabinet retreat on Thursday.

With Parliament resuming in just under two weeks, Prime Minister Mark Carney gathered his cabinet ministers in Toronto this week for a meeting to take stock of the global and domestic economic and political environment, as well as laying out what the government wants to achieve this fall and how they’ll do that.

Here are five takeaways.

Talking to Americans

Mr. Carney revealed that he spoke to President Donald Trump on Monday, in what he said was a lengthy conversation covering trade, geopolitics and labour issues.

But there’s no resolution – yet – to the continuing trade disputes.

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