During the phone call last month between Donald Trump and Mark Carney, the U.S. president put the idea of making Canada the 51st U.S. state back on the table, contrary to what the prime minister himself publicly stated later, sources told Radio-Canada.
According to two Radio-Canada sources with knowledge of the discussion, the issue of Canadian sovereignty was raised in the first part of the conversation.
At the end of this moment, described as “not easy” by one source, Carney said: “We’ll agree to disagree on that one.”
According to Radio-Canada’s sources, Trump brought up the issue of the 51st state during the March 28 call, explaining the advantages of Canada joining the U.S. Carney let him speak before expressing his disagreement.
That contradicts what the prime minister told journalists in a news conference later that day, when he suggested that Trump had put his expansionist language aside during the …