This week I joined Prime Minister Mark Carney on his whirlwind trip to Mexico City to meet the Mexican president, Claudia Sheinbaum.
We were in Mexico for only about 25 hours. But as I wrote with Emiliano Rodriguez Mega, my colleague who is based in Mexico City, Mr. Carney apparently succeeded in one of his key objectives: winning back Mexico’s trust while the two countries grapple with President Trump’s tariff chaos.
[Read: Leaders of Canada and Mexico Talk Trade and Security Without U.S.]
The two leaders came up with an “action plan” that Canadian officials said would actually involve action because of scheduled meetings between the two nations, defined objectives and a timetable.
The meeting with Ms. Sheinbaum reflected Mr. Carney’s current tack for handling Mr. Trump. As my colleague Matina Stevis-Gridneff wrote, “Mr. Carney is facing early signs of trouble as he discovers that being elected on an anti-Trump message does not mean you can govern on one, too.”
[Read Matina’s news analysis: ‘Elbows Down’? Canada’s Leader Struggles to Find the Answer to Trump.]
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