Canada ‘ready to sit down’ and resume US talks, Trump doesn’t want to

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Monday he was ready to talk to US President Donald Trump after Washington hiked tariffs on Canadian goods by an additional 10 per cent.

“We stand ready to sit down with the United States, myself with the president, my colleagues with their colleagues, when the US is ready to sit down,” Carney told reporters, after Trump said he had terminated all trade talks with Canada over what he called a “fake” advertisement campaign.

Trump though, said he does not plan to meet Carney while both are in Asia.

“I don’t want to meet with him,” Trump said on Monday when asked by journalists whether he planned to meet Carney during his trip to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit in South Korea.

He spoke on a flight from Malaysia to Japan, saying he was “very happy” with the current trade arrangement the United States has with Canada.