Canadian opposition parties have stressed the importance of the prime minister maintaining regular talks with the U.S. president, after Prime Minister Mark Carney dismissed a reporter’s question about when he last spoke with U.S. President Donald Trump.
Carney made the comment while attending the G20 Leaders’ Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Nov. 23, while responding to a reporter’s question on the timing of his last conversation with Trump.
“Who cares? I mean, it’s a detail. I spoke to him,” Carney replied. “I’ll speak to him again when it matters.”
The prime minister told the reporter in French that he would likely speak with Trump again within the next two weeks, before switching back to English to say, “I look forward to speaking to the president soon, but I don’t have a burning issue to speak with the president about right now.”…