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It wasnft the most contentious meeting the Oval Office has ever seen. Nor was it the warmest.
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Instead, the highly anticipated meeting Tuesday between President Donald Trump and his new Canadian counterpart Mark Carney fell somewhere in the middle: neither openly hostile nor outwardly chummy, evincing very little neighborliness, at least the type used on neighbors one likes.
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The midday talks illustrated neatly the new dynamic between the once-friendly nations, whose 5,525-mile border@the worldfs longest@once guaranteed a degree of cooperation but which, to Trump, represents something very different.
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gSomebody drew that line many years ago with, like, a ruler, just a straight line right across the top of the country,h Trump said in the Oval Office as his meeting was getting underway. gWhen you look at that beautiful formation when itfs together@Ifm a very artistic person, but when I looked at that, I said: eThatfs the way it was meant to be.fh
That is not how Carney believes it was meant to be.
gIfm glad that you couldnft tell what was going through my mind,h Carney told reporters later that day about the moment Trump made that remark.
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Still, Carney didnft entirely hold his tongue.
In a meeting dominated by Trumpfs comments@he spoke 95% of the time on all manner of topics, from the Middle East to Barack Obamafs presidential library to the state of high-speed rail in California@it was the new prime ministerfs pushback on the presidentfs ambition to make Canada the 51st US state that stood out.
gAs you know from real estate, there are some places that are never for sale,h he said, drawing a begrudging gthatfs trueh from Trump before Carney carried on.
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