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.
Carney was speaking on the sidelines of a regional summit in Malaysia, which Trump attended, before leaving earlier on Monday for Japan.
Carney said he had not had any contact with the US president in Kuala Lumpur.
But he added that he had agreed to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping, with both men due at an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit in South Korea on Wednesday.
Carney said talks with Xi would include their “commercial relationship, as well as the evolution of the global system”.
