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Trump organizes Canada PM Carney as tariffs threaten alliances

President Donald Trump will organize Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in the White House on Tuesday and take up a potentially tense meeting, since the relationships between Washington and Ottawa have reached their lowest point in decades.

“He comes to see me. I am not sure what he wants to see me about, but I think he wants to do a deal. Everyone does it,” Trump said on Monday as an answer to a question about Carney's visit.

The US trade secretary Howard Lutnick painted Canada as little more than an economic leech in the United States.

“We have fed us from us for decades for decades for decades,” said Lutnick the day before Carney's visit to a Fox business interview. “You have your socialist regime and it basically feeds on America.”

Last year, Canada acted more with the United States than in any other country except Mexico. According to the office of the US trade representative, the entire goods trade was around 762 billion dollars.

However, the trade relationship has stalled because Trump has imposed Canadian goods steep tariffs.

Canadian exports to the USA declined by 6.6% in March, while exports rose to other countries by almost 25%, said Statistics Canada on Tuesday.

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Trump's tariffs, together with his expansionist, calls on America to take Canada as a state and its regular insults and accusations, Canadian politics have excited.

Carney's liberal party won enough seats in parliament last week to form the next government after tracing months behind conservatives in surveys. Three months after Trump's term of office, the Canadian elections were regarded as a rejection of Trump and an increase in Canadian pride.

Bruce Heyman, the former US ambassador to Canada, told CNBCs “Squawk Box” on Tuesday that the meeting considers high operations for both Carney and Trump, which have promised that he can negotiate beneficial trade agreements with individual countries.

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