Canadian PM Rebukes Trump Claim About US-Canada Trade in Oval Office [Video]

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney took a hardline stance against several of President Donald Trump‘s claims during a somewhat contentious Oval Office meeting Tuesday, including Trump’s assertion that the United States doesn’t “do much business” with Canada.

Why It Matters

Tuesday was Trump’s first face-to-face meeting with Carney since the U.S. president launched his sweeping trade war targeting Canada, Mexico and nearly 200 other countries. It was also their first meeting since Carney won Canada’s federal election after running on an anti-Trump platform.

What To Know

“We don’t do much business with Canada, from our standpoint,” Trump said at the meeting. “They do a lot of business with us. We’re at like 4 percent, and usually those things don’t last very long. You know, we have great things, great product—the kind of product we sell, nobody else can sell, including military.”

Carney immediately pushed back and began by saying Canada would never accede to Trump’s repeated demands that it become the 51st …