OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney expects to speak with the U.S. president at a World Cup event in Washington next week, but he’s cautioning Canadians not to read too much into the conversations between the two leaders.

Carney said Wednesday that trade negotiations with the United States have not restarted.

He also said that he spoke with Donald Trump on Tuesday, but warned that he didn’t want to make too much of the conversation, which he said “was not newsworthy.”

“This is the kind of thing I didn’t want to get drawn into, which is every little exchange,” he told reporters.

“There are substantive meetings and conversations and negotiations, and that’s not what I’m alluding to, to be clear.”

Carney was speaking in Ottawa where the Liberal government announced additional support for

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