Live updates: Carney in Washington for 1st meeting with Trump to discuss tariffs, Canada-U.S. relations

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.

Poilievre wishes Carney good up of Trump meeting

I’m Cat Tunney, a elder newsman with the Parliamentary Bureau. This morning, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre wished Carney good up of his gathering with Trump.

“We privation to privation Prime Minister Carney a affirmative meeting. We anticipation that the president volition honour our sovereignty and awesome an extremity to these tariffs,” Poilievre said.

“We deliberation that determination should beryllium a woody arsenic soon arsenic imaginable to extremity the chaos.”

Poilievre made the comments connected his mode into the Conservatives’ archetypal caucus gathering since losing past week's election. Poilievre failed to unafraid the spot helium represented for 2 decades.

A fig of high-profile Conservative MPs person expressed their enactment for Poilievre to enactment connected arsenic person but they volition request to find an elected MP to service arsenic Opposition person successful the House of Commons until Poilievre tin run, and win, successful a byelection.

The Trump medication is sending mixed messages astir Canada up of this meeting: Trump said Carney is simply a "nice gentleman" and he's consenting to negociate with him.

U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, meanwhile, unloaded connected Canada during a TV quality conscionable moments aft we touched down successful D.C. yesterday, saying the state is simply a "socialist regime" and it's been ripping disconnected the U.S. for decades.

Carney mounting the barroom debased for this meeting

Good greeting from Washington, D.C. I'm J.P. Tasker, a newsman travelling with Carney for the high-stakes White House gathering today. This is simply a face-to-face that comes arsenic bilateral relations are astatine their lowest constituent successful decades and with a commercialized warfare raging.

Carney is mounting the barroom debased — saying Canadians shouldn't expect to spot immoderate "white smoke," a motion to what volition hap erstwhile a Pope is chosen successful Rome, aft this Oval Office sit-down.

Trump said yesterday helium doesn't cognize wherefore Carney is coming, a connection that seems hard to judge fixed what's been going connected betwixt the 2 countries. "I conjecture helium wants to marque a deal. Everybody does," helium said.

Carney has immoderate argumentation goals: discussing Trump's three-pronged attack to tariffs (the archetypal "fentanyl" tariffs, the Section 232 tariffs connected steel, aluminum and autos and alleged "reciprocal" tariffs that haven't been applied to Canada); and starting the process of renegotiating a caller broad economical and information relationship, present that Carney says the past 1 is "over" aft the president's broadsides.

Beyond that, Carney is surely looking to debar an Oval Office ambush similar the 1 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy endured earlier this year. Experts we spoke to accidental the premier curate was apt good briefed connected what to bash if the gathering starts to spell disconnected the rails.

Trump repeats 51st authorities menace up of gathering

In an interrogation that aired connected NBC Sunday, Trump again said helium wants Canada to beryllium portion of the United States and that he'd "always speech astir that."

"You don't adjacent recognize what a beauteous state it would be. It would beryllium great," Trump told big Kristen Welker.

The U.S. president's renewed threats came arsenic Carney prepared to conscionable him contiguous for a broad acceptable of discussions connected tariffs and the broader Canada-U.S. relationship.

"I'll ever speech astir that. You cognize why? We subsidize Canada to the tune of $200 cardinal a year," Trump added, reiterating his mendacious assertion implicit the U.S. commercialized shortage with Canada.

The U.S. president besides noted Carney's number authorities volition "make things a small spot hard for him to run. But helium nevertheless had a triumph and he's a bully man, I'd think."

After a Trump-focused election, 2 leaders meet

Hello, I'm Verity, and I'll beryllium curating your unrecorded updates today. Prime Minister Mark Carney is successful Washington, D.C., this greeting to conscionable with U.S. President Donald Trump.

Carney made negotiations with Trump a cornerstone of his campaign, but the gathering is happening conscionable implicit a week aft the erstwhile cardinal banker was elected past Monday.

Carney had maintained helium would lone talk with Trump erstwhile the U.S. president shows respect for Canada. He besides argued helium would beryllium the champion idiosyncratic to shepherd Canada done a commercialized warfare with the U.S. amid Trump's threats of annexation.

"It's important to get engaged immediately, which has ever been my intention, which has ever been [Trump's] intention," Carney told reporters successful Ottawa Friday during his archetypal quality league since his election.