Trudeau Treads Carefully With Trump as Nafta Clock Ticks
- Leaders discuss steel, aluminum, lumber and aerospace at G-7
- Canadian PM says he won’t ‘lecture’ U.S. president on trade
Trudeau Treads Carefully With Trump as Nafta Clock Ticks
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Justin Trudeau really didn’t want to talk about Donald Trump. After three days together at a pair of meetings in Europe, the Canadian prime minister spent a press conference bobbing, weaving and ducking questions from reporters about his U.S. counterpart.
The barrage of media queries came as the 43rd Group of Seven summit in Sicily ended with the U.S. president as an outlier. The final meeting communique had all leaders except Trump back the Paris climate accord and added new caveats aimed at appeasing the U.S. -- thanks in part to diplomacy and deft editing by Canada.