Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Tuesday said he spoke to US President Donald Trump on Monday but denied he had retracted comments last week that irritated the US President. That contrasts with Bessent, who told Fox News that Carney was “aggressively walking back” his remarks during the call. He spoke to Prime Minister Carney, who was very aggressively walking back some of the unfortunate remarks he made at Davos," Bessent said. “To be absolutely clear, and I said this to the president, I meant what I said in Davos,” Carney told reporters in Ottawa. He understood that.”CUSMA is the acronym often used by Canadian officials for the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement, the trade deal Trump agreed to during his first term.

Source: The Telegraph January 27, 2026 15:18 UTC