U.S. President Donald Trump spoke more positively about Canada on Tuesday than he has at any time since winning the election last November, but whether that signals any imminent relief to punishing tariffs remains to be seen.
During a 32-minute appearance in the Oval Office with Prime Minister Mark Carney, Trump talked of "mutual love" between the two countries, acknowledged Canada's work in tackling fentanyl and praised Carney as a "very strong, very good leader."
Clearly, those are just words and don't equate to an actual change in policy.
Yet in comparison with his previous tirades against Canada as being unfair to the U.S. on trade, his stubborn insistence that his country doesn't need any of Canada's major exports, and his frequent straight-faced calls for
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