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This composite image shows Prime Minister Mark Carney, left, in Kitchener, Ont. on March 26, 2025 and President Donald Trump, right, in Washington on March 26, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn/AP — Pool
Prime Minister Mark Carney said U.S. President Donald Trump respected Canada’s sovereignty in their first phone call on Friday where the two leaders agreed to begin negotiations on a new economic and security relationship immediately after the Canadian election.
“It was a very cordial, substantive call,” Carney said at a campaign stop in Montreal. “This was a call between two leaders of their respective governments, between two sovereign nations.”
Trump has spent months repeatedly threatening Canada should become a U.S. state and referring to former prime minister Justin Trudeau as a “governor.”
In his statement on social media Friday, Trump referred to Carney as prime minister. Trump said they agreed on many things, and he would be …
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