News Analysis
The bar has not been set high as Prime Minister Mark Carney goes to Washington to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump on Oct. 7.
Neither side has suggested there could be a major breakthrough from this meeting, aside from rumours circulating in Ottawa about potential adjustments to U.S. tariffs placed on Canada.
The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) said the focus of the Carney-Trump meeting will be on “shared priorities in a new economic and security relationship between Canada and the U.S.,” a concept oft-repeated by Carney.
In other words, anything from current tariffs to the upcoming review of the United States-Mexico-Canada free trade agreement (USMCA) could be discussed in relation to the economy….