Following a Trump official’s claim that he had “aggressively” walked it back in a discussion with US President Donald Trump, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney told reporters he stands behind his Davos address criticizing unchecked superpowers.
To be completely forthcoming, and I said this to the president, I meant what I said in Davos,” Carney said on Tuesday that he had had a phone conversation with Trump. Carney was “very aggressively walking back” some of the comments made to Trump, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Fox News on Monday.
Carney’s Davos address, in which he subtly criticized the US president for a “rupture” in the postwar world order, garnered international attention.
In response, Trump stated that “Canada lives because of the United States” in his own Davos speech the next day. Carney refuted Bessent’s memory of the call in an interview with reporters in Ottawa on Tuesday.
He continued by saying that the US president had contacted him on Monday and that they had a “very good conversation on a wide range of subjects that included Canada’s recent trade agreement with China, Venezuela, Ukraine, and Arctic security. According to Carney, the two also discussed the USMCA, a free trade agreement between the US, Canada, and Mexico that will be subject to a statutory review later this year.
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