Newly elected Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has styled himself as a climate champion. On Tuesday he met with President Donald Trump, who has called climate change a hoax and dismantled efforts to address it.
That difference, one of many between the two leaders, signals how much U.S.-Canada relations have changed since Trump entered the White House in January. His use of tariffs and threats to make Canada a U.S. state injected life into Carney’s political campaign, at a time when his signature effort within the United Nations to harness financial action against climate change had badly stumbled.
His Liberal Party was a long shot to retain control in Canada — until Trump united voters behind the former central banker.
“I think I was probably the greatest thing that happened to him,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office before congratulating Carney on his victory last week.
