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Mark Carney faces trade challenges in crucial meeting with Donald Trump

Newly elected prime minister heads to Washington for talks as spectre of separatism looms at home

Mark Carney has had a short honeymoon since his victory in Canada’s election.

A little over a week after spearheading his Liberal party’s comeback, the prime minister will meet US President Donald Trump on Tuesday for crucial talks overshadowed by a looming trade war and rumblings of Brexit-style rebellion at home.  

The US president’s hostility to his northern neighbour — with repeated threats to annex Canada and the imposition of tariffs