New York Times: Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada dismissed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s suggestion that he had retracted his assertion that President Trump had created an irrevocable “rupture” to the world order.
The Canadian leader spoke to reporters in Ottawa on Tuesday, the day after Mr. Bessent said on Fox News that he was in the Oval Office while Mr. Carney “was very aggressively walking back some of the unfortunate remarks” he had made at the World Economic Forum in Davos during a telephone call with Mr. Trump…
CBC: “To be absolutely clear, and I said this to the president, I meant what I said in Davos,” Carney said Tuesday on his way into a meeting with his cabinet.
Asked directly if he walked his comments back, Carney said “no.”
The prime minister said Trump called Carney on Monday and the pair had “a very good conversation” discussing everything from Arctic security to the situation in Ukraine and Venezuela…