Carney arrives at the White House for 1st meeting with Trump to discuss tariffs, Canada-U.S. relations

Carney heads into the White House

Carney is connected his mode into the White House to conscionable with Trump, down schedule.

Before helium arrived, a Canadian emblem was brought retired and posted extracurricular the door.

Carney was scheduled to get astatine 11:30 a.m. ET astatine the White House, but we’re intelligibly down schedule.

A root tells our colleagues connected the crushed that the hold is connected the American side.

Carney is acceptable successful the car but needs the greenish airy from the White House.

FACT CHECK: Trump’s assertion that the U.S. ‘subsidizes’ Canada by $200B

The fig Trump uses has fluctuated.

He pegged the “subsidy” to Canada astatine $100 cardinal successful December. The pursuing month, helium upped it to $200 billion, past $250 billion.

In a Truth Social station this morning, helium repeated the $200-billion figure. But nary of those numbers are factual.

Trump seems to beryllium lumping successful the commercialized deficit, on with what helium calls “free” subject extortion and different unspecified things.

A commercialized shortage is not a subsidy. It conscionable means the U.S. buys much goods from america than we bash from them.

The U.S. commercialized shortage with Canada successful 2024 was $63 billion. If you instrumentality lipid retired of that, it’s really Canada that has the commercialized shortage (in different words, the U.S. has a commercialized surplus with america for astir goods).

Placing a dollar fig connected subject extortion and co-operation would beryllium overmuch much difficult. Canada has failed to unrecorded up to a NATO committedness to walk 2 per cent of GDP connected the military. Carney is promising to conscionable that by 2030.

Trump welcomes Carney with, ahem, elbows up

Carney called the U.S. president a bully negotiator. Well, 1 of the keys to negotiating is mounting the terms.

Trump appears to beryllium doing that by fundamentally asking: what tin Canada bash for me?

The president issued a broadside connected his Truth Social relationship minutes earlier Carney’s scheduled arrival, denigrating the value of Canada to the U.S. economy.

He said helium wants a bully narration with Carney, and wants Canada's friendship, but again questioned the basal presumption of the Canada-U.S. partnership.

Trump again wondered wherefore the U.S. needs Canada's lumber and cars, and again questioned wherefore the U.S. protects Canada militarily.

"That volition be, astir likely, my lone question of effect [at this meeting]," helium wrote connected Truth Social.

Who volition beryllium astatine the meetings?

Both the Canada and U.S. broadside person announced who volition beryllium successful the gathering today.

Outside of Carney, of course, the Canadian delegation includes:

• International Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc.
• Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly.
• Public Safety Minister David McGuinty.
• Canada’s Ambassador to the U.S. Kirsten Hillman.
• Clerk of the Privy Council John Hannaford.
• Carney’s interim main of unit Marco Mendicino.
• Senior advisor Lisa Jorgensen.

The U.S. broadside is besides stacked:

• Vice-President JD Vance.
• Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
• Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick.
• U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer.
• Trump’s main of unit Susie Wiles.
• Deputy main of unit Stephen Miller.
• U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra.

What does a triumph look similar today?

Here's what a triumph volition look like, for Carney and for Canada: advancement connected 1 of 3 P's.

There are 3 large steps that request to beryllium sorted retired earlier immoderate speech of a Canada-U.S. commercialized truce: personnel, argumentation and process.

Which radical volition pb these talks? What policies are connected the negotiating table, speech from the obvious, tariffs? And what process volition they usage to negotiate?

The process question is key. Trump wants to update CUSMA arsenic rapidly arsenic possible, but that reappraisal isn't scheduled until adjacent year, and volition instrumentality astir a twelvemonth conscionable to get started nether the procedures successful U.S. law. They could determine contiguous to purpose for a separate, faster process.

Related to that: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is testifying connected Capitol Hill close present and said helium expects caller commercialized deals with up to 90 per cent of large U.S. trading partners this year.

Repeat aft us: it's conscionable 1 meeting

Despite the wall-to-wall media scrutiny of Carney's travel to Washington, it's worthy remembering what this is: 1 meeting.

His interlocutor, Trump, is simply a famously transactional fig whose interactions volition crook connected a dime.

Case successful point? Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The Ukrainian person was the unfortunate of possibly the astir catastrophic photograph op successful the past of the Oval Office. Every satellite person visiting Washington present fears getting “Zelenskyed.”

But conjecture what? Zelenskyy and Trump are present connected amended terms. They conscionable had an brushwood astatine the Vatican that Zelenskyy called their champion enactment yet.

They've got a caller minerals woody that analysts are calling a win-win. The New York Times conscionable ran a portion headlined, "How Zelensky Maneuvered Himself Out of the Doghouse With Trump."

You cognize who had a bully archetypal gathering with Trump aft the Nov. 5 U.S. election? Justin Trudeau. By archetypal accounts, his travel to Mar-a-Lago was friendly.

Then a fewer days later, Trump started belittling Canada's sovereignty, successful a run of cross-border denigration without parallel successful modern history.

So bottommost line: it's a luncheon meeting. Chill.

FACT CHECK: Which tariffs presently use to Canada

I’m David Michael Lamb with the CBC’s fact-checking team, a challenging duty erstwhile it comes to the U.S. president.

Over the past fewer months, tariffs person been applied, delayed, cancelled and threatened. Here’s wherever Canada stands astatine the moment.

In aboriginal April, the U.S. imposed 25 per cent tariffs connected Canadian-made cars, levied connected the worth of each non-U.S. contented successful them (this tariff besides applies to each non-U.S. car imports). That tariff is inactive successful place.

A fewer days ago, a akin 25 per cent tariff was to travel into unit connected each car parts. But connected May 1, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said parts that comply with the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) would beryllium exempt — truthful that tariff present has a important carve retired for Canada.

Steel and aluminum tariffs of 25 per cent that were applied successful March are inactive successful effect.

And Canadian goods that are not CUSMA compliant besides person a 25 per cent tariff, with immoderate exceptions. Energy products successful CUSMA person a 10 per cent tariff. And potash that is not covered by CUSMA has a 10 per cent tariff.

Yes, it’s confusing.

Taunts ‘cheap theatre,’ says erstwhile ambassador

I’m a newsman with the CBC’s Parliamentary Bureau. James Blanchard, the erstwhile U.S. ambassador to Canada, said this greeting that Trump’s taunts are “cheap theatre.”

“It’s the insults, frankly, much than immoderate commercialized friction, that person led to deterioration of relationships,” Blanchard told CBC News’s Paul Hunter.

Blanchard was the ambassador from 1993-96 nether erstwhile U.S. president Bill Clinton.

Emphasizing the value of allies successful the interests of nationalist security, Blanchard said America needs to person a concern with Canada. He noted the U.S. has maintained a fig of commercialized surpluses with Canada.

“The lone commercialized shortage we person is vigor and we privation that energy,” Blanchard said. “This is simply a precise healthy, palmy commercialized narration and the information that the radical astir Mr. Trump person magnified that arsenic a occupation is truly not wise. It's not fair.”

Here’s however we’re expecting contiguous volition play out, with the caveat that sometimes leaders’ meetings spell agelong and past the schedules tin change:

11:30 a.m. ET: Carney volition get astatine the White House.

11:45 a.m.: The premier curate volition conscionable with Trump successful the Oval Office. There volition beryllium a photograph op of the two, known arsenic a “pool spray.” Trump is known to wound erstwhile journalists outcry questions, truthful we could perceive immoderate comments earlier reporters are ushered out.

12:15 p.m.: Carney volition be an authoritative luncheon fixed by the president; this volition beryllium closed to the media.

3 p.m.: The premier curate volition clasp a media availability astatine the Embassy of Canada to the United States.