'Visceral hatred': CNN panel explains why Trump really backed off from Canada

27 May

Donald Trump talks with Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during a North Atlantic Treaty Organization Plenary Session at the NATO summit in Watford, Britain, December 4, 2019. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo

When Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney ran against Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre in April, the race became, in part, a referendum on U.S. President Donald Trump. And the Liberal Party's Carney, by positioning himself as the more anti-Trump of the two, enjoyed a decisive victory.

Carney subsequently met with Trump during a May 7 visit to the White House, politely emphasizing that while he values Canada's relationship with the United States, Canada will maintain its sovereignty and never become "the 51st state."

U.S./Canadian relations was the focus of a CNN panel hosted by Dana Bash early Tuesday afternoon, April 27.

Bash pointed out that Canadian anger toward Trump is quite real and that many Canadians deeply resent the trade war that Trump set off.

Bash told the panel, "The Canadians are pissed. And let me show you some data on that. Canadians boycotting U.S. goods 76 percent. So, three quarters of Canadians say that they're not buying U.S. goods, American goods. Now, here's another stat: Canadian travel from the U.S. — which is kind of a big deal for a lot of American hospitality, U.S. hospitality — by plane, down 20 percent. By car, down 35 percent. And these are actual statistics taken by Canada as they clock who comes back into their country."

But one of the panelists, CNN's Phil Mattingly, stressed that Carney has a better relationship with the Trump White House than Canada's former prime minister, Justin Trudeau, even though Carney and Trudeau are both members of Canada's Liberal Party.

Mattingly explained, "The president's relationship with Mark Carney is very, very different than it was with Justin Trudeau. I cannot overstate how personally people inside the White House, the president on down, viscerally loathed, on a personal level, Justin Trudeau. For whatever the reasons — we're going back to the first term — Carney is different. Even they're the same party. they are trying to establish a relationship. Both sides, I think, are actually making a good-faith effort. It will be interesting to see how that plays out."

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