With no trade progress, Carney's meeting with Trump looked like 'mutual back-scratching'

OTTAWA — Ottawa bureau chief Stuart Thomson talks to Brian Lee Crowley, the managing director of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, about Prime Minister Mark Carney’s meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump on Oct. 7, 2025.

On Tuesday, Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc said both leaders had directed their teams to “quickly land deals.” Still, the prime minister did not emerge to announce that a deal was in hand, even as the president heaped praise on Carney during their sit-down in the Oval Office earlier that day, which was followed by a private working lunch that featured senior members from both leaders’ governments, which lasted for roughly an hour.

Surprisingly, Carney put a new pipeline on the table as part of the negotiations. A source with knowledge of the discussions between the president and the prime minister said that Carney raised the idea of possibly revisiting the Keystone XL pipeline, which Trump has supported for years.

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