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Mark Carney showed Canadian voters that they had made the right choice while keeping the Liberal Party in power during his first meeting with Trump.
Trump struck Carney and assembled the media with his sales argument for Canada to become the 51st American state:
I always believe that it takes two in Tango. But no, I do, I think it would be a massive tax reduction for Canadian citizens. You get free soldiers, you get huge medical concerns and other things.
There would be many advantages, but it would be a massive tax reduction. And it is also a beautiful, as a real estate developer, I am a property developer at heart. When you get rid of this artificially traced line, someone traced this line several years ago with a rule, just a straight line just at the top of the country.
When you look at this great training, when it is together, I am a very artistic person. But when I looked at this, but I said that was how it was supposed to be, I’m just, I think it’s much better for Canada. That, but we will not discuss this unless someone wants to discuss it.
I think there are enormous advantages for Canadian citizens, extremely reduced taxes, free soldiers, that honestly, we give you essentially anyway because we protect Canada if you have had a problem. But I think it would really be a wonderful marriage because these are two places that get along very well.
They love each other a lot.
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Faced with the idea of an American president wishing to buy HS Country, Mark Carney had the perfectly measured answer:
If I can, as you know in real estate, there are places that are never for sale. We are sitting in one right now, Buckingham Palace that you have also visited. It’s true. And after meeting the owners of Canada during the pastry campaign, it is not for sale.
It will never be for sale.
But. The opportunity is in partnership and what we can build together. And we have done it in the past. And part of this, as the president has just said, concerns our own security. And my government is initiated for a change of steps in our investment in Canadian security and our partnership.
I would also say this: the president revitalized international security and revitalized NATO. We take our total weight in NATO.
A less diplomatic answer would have been laughing in the face of Trump or making a counter-offer so that Canada buys Maine, but Carney did not do this. He said firmly to Trump no, but he wrapped it in part of this NATO Jumbo Mumbo that Trump loves so much.
Canada will not be the 51st state, and Trump also learned that it will not intimidate Mark Catney.
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