Senators visit Canada and are looking for a reset for Trump's provocations

A cross -party group of senators came to Ottawa on Friday to stabilize the relationship between the United States to Canada, and determined to improve a former alliance that President Trump has tested with tariffs and tough talks in recent months.

The group of American and Canadian flags and the red and white friendship fire, the group – four Democrats and a lonely republican – met with Prime Minister Mark Carney and high -ranking Canadian officials to defuse the tensions that were built up in the last few months after economic pressure and political rhetoric by Mr. Trump, which is ultimately as destabilizing and he was ultimately have looked at destabilizing.

“We know how important Canada is for our states and how important the United States and the Canadian relationship are for both countries,” said Senator Jeanne Shaheen from New Hampshire, the best democrat of the committee for external relationships, after a day of meetings with government officials and managing directors.

She was part of a delegation that the democratic senators Tim Kaine from Virginia, Amy Klobuchar from Minnesota and Peter Welch from Vermont and Senator Kevin Cramer from North Dakota, the only Republican.

“We hope that this meeting will continue to pass on positive discussions that some of the cracks that have occurred in the relationship in the past few months will be healed and that we go forward together,” said Ms. Shaheen.

These cracks include Mr. Trump's tariffs, who disrupted the regional economies, which laid down from the trade with Canada, as well as rhetoric that humiliated many Canadians. The repeated comments by the President, who point out that Canada America's “51st state” should become and that the United States were exploited by the relationship, were initially dismissed as misunderstood humor or unorthodox negotiation tactics. Now they are widely considered in the country as disrespectful and harmful to Canadian sovereignty.