{"id":92229,"date":"2026-06-17T13:41:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T13:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/92229\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T13:41:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T13:41:15","slug":"canadas-carney-says-lack-of-bilateral-meeting-with-trump-at-g7-not-a-snub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/92229\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada’s Carney says lack of bilateral meeting with Trump at G7 not a snub"},"content":{"rendered":"

EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France (AP) \u2014 Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will leave the G7 summit on Wednesday without a formal meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump as the free-trade agreement<\/a> between their countries faces an uncertain future.<\/p>\n

Canadian leaders typically get a bilateral meeting with American presidents at summits of the world\u2019s leading industrialized democracies, but Carney dismissed any notion of a snub.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wouldn\u2019t take a big message from that,\u201d Carney said. \u201cI had seven or eight discussions with President Trump over the course of last 36 hours. I\u2019ll have more today, a wide range of subjects from the economy, relations, his birthday, artificial intelligence, Ukraine, obviously Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carney\u2019s speech at the World Economic Forum<\/a> in Davos, Switzerland, in January helped make him an international political star, when he declared the global rules-based order over and condemned coercion by great powers on smaller countries. The prime minister received widespread praise and attention for his remarks<\/a> and upstaged Trump at the gathering.<\/p>\n

Talks on the latest iteration of the North American free-trade pact have reached a crucial moment. The agreement, which has intertwined the economies of Canada, the United States and Mexico since the early 1990s, is up for renewal on July 1. Trump said last week he may not renew the deal.<\/p>\n

Preserving the accord is critical for Canada, which sends about 75% of its exports to the U.S.<\/p>\n

Dominic LeBlanc, Canada\u2019s minister responsible for trade with the U.S., and Janice Charette, Canada\u2019s chief negotiator, met with U.S. Trade Ambassador Jamieson Greer at the summit. LeBlanc said they made progress.<\/p>\n

LeBlanc has previously said<\/a> he believes the U.S. might want to have the trade agreement subject to annual reviews, and that the Trump administration might seek to cause uncertainty about its permanence.<\/p>\n

French President Emmanuel Macron, the summit host, is the only G7 leader to get a bilateral meeting thus far. Trump also met one on one with the leaders of non-G7 countries of Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and India.<\/p>\n

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Carney noted the host country always meets with the American president.<\/p>\n

Carney used humor to engage with Trump in at least one of their interactions about trade. In a lighter moment, a microphone caught Carney and Trump<\/a> joking about stealing Macron\u2019s watch.<\/p>\n

Carney then moved to a serious exchange about allowing Chinese electric vehicles into Canada. A microphone recorded Carney telling Trump about how less than 3% of Canada\u2019s market, 49,000 cars, will be allowed to enter from China after he made a deal with Beijing.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a cap, we capped, a hard line,\u201d Carney said. \u201cI thought you\u2019d actually like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s good, I like it,\u201d Trump responded.<\/p>\n

Breaking with the United States, Canada agreed to cut its 100% tariff<\/a> on Chinese electric cars earlier this year in return for lower tariffs on Canadian farm products. Carney said he spoke to Trump about it twice. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not surprised that the president of the United States doesn\u2019t follow every detail of every agreement that Canada has, and he likes the structure. Actually, we had a follow-up conversation about it as well,\u201d Carney said.<\/p>\n

Peter Boehm, a member of the Canadian Senate who led a number of G7 summits for Canada, said Carney would have had a lot of time for conversations with Trump.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wouldn\u2019t see it as a snub,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s amazing how much time leaders can actually have to have conversations.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France (AP) \u2014 Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will leave the G7 summit on Wednesday without a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[525,17,591,21892,596,7185,162,14035,31388,592,8146,434,7492,7490,3772,111,388,33204,113,8156,594,5996,218],"class_list":["post-92229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-business","tag-canada","tag-canada-government","tag-central-america","tag-diplomacy","tag-dominic-leblanc","tag-donald-trump","tag-emmanuel-macron","tag-g7-summit","tag-general-news","tag-international-agreements","tag-international-trade","tag-jamieson-greer","tag-janice-charette","tag-latin-america","tag-mark-carney","tag-mexico","tag-peter-boehm","tag-politics","tag-tariffs-and-global-trade","tag-united-states-government","tag-washington-news","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}