Prime Minister Mark Carney to visit Trump at White House next week

Cabinet successful a small implicit a week

Carney going to Washington

Hi, I'm a newsman successful Montreal. My workfellow successful Washington, D.C., Alex Panetta, wrote yesterday astir the 3 large steps Carney needs to spell done to get a caller commercialized woody with Trump.

Alex called them the 3 Ps: personnel, process and policy.

Step one, according to Brian Clow, who managed U.S. relations for erstwhile premier curate Justin Trudeau's government, is creating a team. Its constitution needs to reply 3 questions: who volition clasp the applicable furniture roles; who volition pb the process; and volition determination beryllium a pb negotiator named?

Step 2 involves the process. Under what mechanics volition these talks unfold? On the slower extremity of the spectrum, there’s the scheduled reappraisal of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA), which is expected to commencement adjacent year. Another enactment is an informal handshake deal.

A 3rd anticipation is simply a operation of both: archetypal talks, followed by the ceremonial process and policy-making months later.

One elder Canadian authoritative says it volition astir apt impact 2 abstracted sets of talks, but that the circumstantial process has yet to beryllium nailed down. Canada's main extremity successful each this? The extremity of tariffs.

While Carney makes his archetypal large quality arsenic premier minister, Poilievre has been engaged making calls and shoring up enactment for his leadership, aft helium vowed to enactment connected arsenic enactment main pursuing Monday night’s predetermination results.

The Conservative caucus volition conscionable connected Tuesday to determine connected the party’s adjacent steps. A root told CBC News that determination is enactment for Poilievre to enactment on, having grown the Conservative conjugation during his clip arsenic person contempt his nonaccomplishment to signifier authorities and bushed the Liberals.

Poilievre is nary longer the person of the Official Opposition; you person to clasp a spot successful the House of Commons to beryllium eligible for the honorific. So he’s technically nary longer entitled to unrecorded astatine Stornoway House, the authoritative residence for whoever holds the title. The interim person who replaces him could springiness him support to enactment for the clip being.

A refresher, if you request it: Carney and Trump person spoken doubly truthful acold this year.

Their archetypal telephone was connected March 28. During that discussion, the 2 agreed that Canada’s adjacent premier curate would put a gathering with the U.S. president aft the election.

Carney said astatine the clip that Trump respected Canadian sovereignty during the call; it was aboriginal revealed that Trump utilized “51st state” rhetoric portion speaking with Carney.

Their 2nd telephone was connected Tuesday. Trump congratulated Carney connected his predetermination win, and they agreed that they’d conscionable soon. We’re expecting to perceive much details astir that today.

Carney to talk astatine the apical of the hour

The premier curate volition instrumentality questions astatine 11 a.m. ET. It’s his archetypal quality league since helium brought the Liberals backmost from a polling rock-bottom to clasp powerfulness successful Monday’s election.

He is expected to speech astir the contiguous priorities for his archetypal word and his upcoming gathering with U.S. President Donald Trump. Carney’s bureau had said that the gathering volition hap successful “the adjacent future,” portion Trump said they would conscionable wrong the adjacent week.