In a wild and unexpected comment, but which illustrates how tense things remain between Canada and the Trump administration on the trade front, the country's Prime Minister Mark Carney bluntly stated in a new interview he had geared up for an "extreme tail risk" of a US invasion.
In a New York Times interview published Wednesday Carney was questioned on his reaction to President Trump's eyeing a takeover of Canada. The US President at one point in the recent past even discussed the possibility of it becoming the "51st" state while looking directly at Carney in the Oval Office.
White House imageTrump spent much of Carney's first year as prime minister calling him "governor" - or at other times issuing provocative remarks like "A lot of people in Canada are liking becoming our beautiful, cherished 51st state. They'll have to pay much lower taxes, they'll have the ultimate security. They don't pay very much for security right now because they rely on us."
After absorbing a lot of insults Carney is perhaps belatedly trying to hit back, or else he's getting more serious with is ribbing and pushback against Washington:
“I think you have a responsibility in these roles to look at extreme tail risk. That’s just risk management. That’s not a base case,” Carney told the Times, adding that “it would be irresponsible not to” be prepared.
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