Prime Minister Mark Carney is traveling to Washington next week to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday.

The meeting will be “a working visit,” according to a statement from the Prime Minister’s Office , focussed on security and trade.

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It will come a few days after the U.S. president again spoke about Canada becoming the 51st state during a meeting with military generals in Virginia about his proposed “Golden Dome” missle defence system. Claiming Canada called him and expressed a desire to be part of it, he said: “‘Well, why don’t you just join our country? You become the 51st state and you get it for free.”

It will be Carney’s second visit to the White House since he took office.

The PMO statement says, Canada and the U.S. launched consultations last

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