OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney used a hastily convened meeting with world leaders at U.S. President Donald Trump’s peace summit in Egypt to push for deeper trade ties with several countries in the Middle East.

A senior government official, speaking on background due to the sensitivity of diplomatic talks, told The Canadian Press the meeting led to both productive talks on postwar plans for Gaza and helpful discussions on deepening Canada’s economic and diplomatic relationships in the Persian Gulf region.

The source says that since Trump was hours late, world leaders stuck in the same room together without the standard diplomatic trappings took part in discussions that were more frank and personal than the usual exchanges at these events.

On the margins of the trip, Carney spoke wit

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