A meeting between the leaders of Canada and the United States is not usually considered a high stakes showdown, but there was little ordinary about this one. Here was newly elected Prime Minister Mark Carney making his first visit to the Oval Office to see President Donald Trump,

A meeting between the leaders of Canada and the United States is not usually considered a high-stakes showdown, but there was little ordinary about this encounter after Trump spent months musing about annexing Canada and turning it into the 51st state.

New Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has asked President Donald Trump not to call Canada the 51st state of the United States as he did under Carney’s predecessor, Justin Trudeau. During a press conference on the roof of the Canadian Embassy on Pennsylvania Avenue,