Mark Carney will head to the White House next Tuesday, his second visit as Canada’s prime minister, as officials from the two countries

negotiate on trade and security issues . Carney and United States president Donald Trump will hold working meetings that day, according to a statement from the prime minister’s office on Friday.

He visited Washington in early May, the week after he led his Liberal Party to victory in a national election.

At that meeting, the prime minister sought to discourage Trump from making further statements about Canada

becoming the 51st U.S. state — comments that have infuriated Canadians and contributed to boycotts of U.S. travel and products. “As you know from real estate, there are some places that are never for sale,” Carney told Trump at the time.

The two men also met at the Group of Seven leaders’ summit in Alberta in June. After that gathering, Carney said they would try to reach an agreement on trade and tariffs in July.

Instead, on July 31, Trump announced the U.S. would increase the

so-called fentanyl tariffs on Canadian products to 35 per cent. However, those tariffs don’t apply to most of the goods trade between the two countries.

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