Canadian Prime Minister Carney, who is visiting Washington, held his second meeting with U.S. President Trump in the White House on October 7 local time since Carney took office.

During the two-and-a-half-hour meeting, Canada hopes to reach some important consensus on trade and tariffs, paving the way for the two countries to eventually reach a new economic and security agreement.

In an interview with reporters in the Oval Office, Carney listed some of Trump's achievements in his second term. When Carney said "the most important thing in many ways," Trump took advantage of Carney's pause and interrupted: "And the merger of Canada and the United States." Carney immediately said: "I didn't think too much."

In the past few months, Trump has repeatedly publicly put forward the idea of ¡°annexing Canada¡± and has expressed his willingness to it through ¡°economic power.¡±