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 by his Davos address criticizing unbridled superpowers.
Carney confirmed on Tuesday that he and Trump had spoken over the phone. “To be absolutely clear, and I said this to the president, I meant what I said in Davos,” he said. Carney was “very aggressively walking back” some of the statements 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 international order, garnered international attention. In opposition, Trump declared that “Canada lives because of the United States” in his own Davos speech the next day.
Carney refuted Bessent’s memory of the phone call in an interview with reporters in Ottawa on Tuesday. The US president had contacted him on Monday, he continued, and the two had a “very good conversation on a wide range of subjects” including 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 need to be reviewed later this year.
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