President Donald Trump said there's “mutual love” but “natural conflict” between the United States and Canada as he sat down with Prime Minister Mark Carney on Tuesday in the Oval Office.
Carney's second visit to the United States comes as one of the world’s most durable and amicable alliances has been fractured by Trump's trade war and annexation threats. Among the topics up for discussion are trade and the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, which is critical to Canada's economy and is up for a review next year.
Trump said he was willing to revisit the free trade agreement, which was enacted during his first term, or seek “different deals.”
“We could renegotiate it, and that would be good, or we can just do different deals,” he said. “We’re allowed to do different deals.”
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