Suddenly, the Trump tone of Canada has become more positive. What is the case?

US President Donald Trump spoke more positively about Canada on Tuesday more than ever since his victory in the elections last November, but it remains to see whether this indicates any imminent relief of punitive customs duties.

During his 32 -minute appearance in the Oval Office with Prime Minister Mark Carne, Trump talked about “mutual love” between the two countries, and he confessed to Canada’s work in treating fentanel and praised Bakrani and described him as “a very strong and good leader.”

It is clear that these are just words and do not mean a really change in politics.

However, compared to his previous speeches against Canada as unfair to the United States in the field of trade, and his stubborn insistence that his country does not need any of Canada’s major exports, and his explicitly repeated calls to Canada to become state No. 51, Trump’s approach to his northern neighbor seemed almost warm.

Kelly Ann Show, a senior trading advisor for Trump during his first term, saw encouraging signs of exchanges between Trump and Carney during the open part of the journalists of their meeting.

“I spent a lot of time with the president in his meetings with world leaders, and his reputation frankly spoke very frankly about the dynamism with the former Prime Minister, and it was a positive tone as I saw with anyone,” Show told CBC News.

Flavio Volby, the Canadian President of the Association of Automotive Parts Manufacturers and the severe critic of the Trump War, also noticed this shift.

“I have spoken differently from Canada,” said Volby. “It seems that, perhaps unconsciously, it raises Canada’s position as a competitor.”

“We want Canada to do a good job.”

Regarding the auto sector specifically, Trump has taken a more moderate tone than it was during the past nine months. While Canada and the United States described them as competing in the car market, it seemed to indicate that the success of the industry is a common interest of both countries.

“It is a difficult situation because we want to make our cars here,” Trump said. “Meanwhile, we want Canada to do a good job in the auto industry. So we are working on formulas, and I think we’ll get there.”“.

Whether and when they will actually get there, huge questions remain. The shift in the tone of Trump without changing its definitions does not mean anything to the automotive, steel, aluminum, and timber in Canada.

However, Trump hinted that something is being worked on.

In response to a question about whether Canada will come out of empty -handed from a visit on Tuesday, Trump replied: “We have a lot of things we are working on … I think they will leave very happy.”

Trump’s praise of Carne at the meeting was a gone, and he was closer to extravagance.

“I can tell you this, because I am dealing with many leaders around the world, he is a world -class leader,” Trump said. “He is a good man. He is doing a great job, but it is a difficult negotiator. ”

He continued: “I think he is a great prime minister. I mean, he can represent me at any time.”

Carney responded to this with a reference to Khirbashh with his right hand and told reporters: “Write that.”

It is easy and risky to benefit from the personal relationship between two international leaders as it appears in front of the cameras.

However, experts who watched Trump closely noted that personal relationships are very important and effectively affect his political thinking.

“The president tends to be very relationship, and tends to make further progress in relationships when there is real chemistry,” said Shu.

It says it is better from Trump’s view of harmony with Carney, and says the Prime Minister is smart in an attempt to strengthen this.

“I think things are going in the right direction, it only takes time,” said Shu.

Some of the possible evidence in this direction: The closed part of the meeting concluded by directing Trump and Carney to their members of their government to “quickly conclude deals” focusing on steel, aluminum and energy, according to Canadian Canadian Trade Minister Dominic Lieblank to reporters on Tuesday afternoon.

Lieblank said that the rest of the Canadian commercial team members resided in Washington to hold these talks, which he said may start this evening.

Although no one – including Lieplank – predicts the result of any certainty, it is the first sign of moving on customs tariffs on steel and aluminum since Trump. And they doubled them to 50 percent In June.