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The prime minister’s challenge is how to manage both the most important Canadian ally and his own domestic politics. “The charm offensive has produced little of what the prime minister hoped.” Even before Mr. Trump came to power, Mr. Trudeau, and his closest aides and cabinet members rushed to connect with the new president and his advisers. Now Mr. Trump is challenging Canada’s longtime dairy system, which uses high tariffs to largely exclude imports. The prospect of a full-on trade war is an alarming proposition; trade with the United States is the economic lifeblood of Canada. “We cannot win a trade war with 75 percent of our trade going to the U.S. We’re highly vulnerable to American actions. He has to deal with the survival of the Canadian economy.” In recent days, Mr. Trump has focused mainly on Canada’s dairy system, known as “supply management,” which is a longstanding irritant between Canada and several other countries, including the United States. Still, the United States sells about five times more dairy products to Canada than Canada exports south. Nonetheless, the supply management system riles up Mr. Trump, who says the Canadian market should be fully opened to American dairy farmers. “The U.S. position on supply management hasn’t changed since President Obama,” said Meredith Lilly, a professor of international affairs at Carleton University in Ottawa and the former international trade adviser to former Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Politicians of all political stripes have avoided pushing back, and Canada has won exemptions for the system in several trade agreements, including Nafta and, most recently, a free-trade pact with Europe.

In a series of tweets, President Donald Trump criticized Canadian PM Justin Trudeau's statement that the seven countries had come to a consensus on encouraging free and fair trade. Trump blasted Trudeau for being 'meek and mild.' The panel discusses.…

In his sights were Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and French President Emmanuel Macron. Based on everything he's uttered or tweeted before, during, and after this G7 summit, it seems when Mr Macron, Mr Trudeau or Mrs Merkel say something, the president of the United States takes note. As he left the summit, Mr Trump commented on how his relationships were faring with other leaders, saying of Mrs Merkel, Mr Macron and Mr Trudeau: "We have a great relationship. Neither did Mrs May have a formal one-on-one meeting with the president during the summit, despite holding such meetings with each of the other leaders present. Mr Trump had bilateral meetings with Emmanuel Macron and Justin Trudeau. The uncomfortable reality for Number 10 is that Mr Trump is selective about who he sits down with. Even in her concluding comments, the most Mrs May could say was that she'd had "brief words" with the president in which he said he was looking forward to his upcoming visit to the UK. :: Photo shared by Angela Merkel hints at tension at G7 In Trump's politics of the personal, failure to get attention is a problem if you want to have any chance of influencing him - special relationships in his world are about individuals, not historic convention. :: Trump's tariffs - What you need to know Mr Trump, in particular, admires power. A seat at the top table means very little if the person sitting there is barely heard.

Trudeau 'stabbed us in back' on trade, says Trump chief economic adviser Read more But a day after Trump left a trail of diplomatic chaos from Canada to Singapore, the site of his summit with Kim Jong-un of North Korea, a picture of world leaders apparently confronting Trump dominated reactions to the G7 summit. It shows Trump, arms folded and eyes glaring, sitting while around him stand a group of world leaders and their advisers. Departing Washington on Friday, Trump called for Russia to be readmitted to the G7, four years after it was thrown out over the annexation of Crimea. In the picture released by Merkel, John Bolton, Trump’s national security adviser, stands at the president’s right. The president made it clear today. The release of the picture caused animated commentary around the world about body language and what it might say about relations between the US and its allies in the Trump era. It was followed on Sunday by a furious attack on Trudeau by Trump’s leading economic advisers. Fabian Reinbold (@fabreinbold) One scene - four different perspectives #G7 1) by Merkel‘s team ?? 2) by Macron’s team ?? 3) by Conte’s team ?? 4) by Trump’s team ?? pic.twitter.com/q3qaSfaiQS June 9, 2018 But every picture tells a story. Other images of the same gathering suggested a more relaxed interaction, Merkel smiling and Trump making eye contact while Trudeau, also smiling, stood by. In March 2017, Merkel’s first visit to the White House saw Trump either fail to hear or ignore the chancellor’s offer to shake hands.