Carney and Trump are only at the beginning of redefining the Canada-U.S. relationship [Video]

In 2013, when he was running to unseat a Conservative government, Justin Trudeau said there were a “few very big things the prime minister of Canada needs to get right,” one of which was “building a constructive working relationship with the president of the United States.”

That of course was long before the president of the United States was Donald Trump — long before even the idea of a president like Trump was remotely fathomable. (Trudeau’s criticism at the time was that Stephen Harper had bungled the relationship with Barack Obama, to the detriment of the Keystone XL pipeline.)

In 2025, amid the reality of Trump’s second term, the question for the new prime minister is what that “constructive working relationship” should look like now — or even how constructive any relationship can possibly be.

Two days before Mark Carney went to the White House, Trump was asked by the host of Meet the Presswhether …