When Canada’s prime minister, Mark Carney, met with Donald Trump at the White House this week, the notoriously over-prepared former central banker was no doubt expecting to discuss tariffs, trade and defence policy.
But as he sat beside the president, he was instead treated to a discourse on one of Trump’s more recondite fixations: the centuries-old border between Canada and the United States.
“Somebody drew that line many years ago with, like, a ruler – just a straight line right across the top of the country,” he told Carney and the mass of assembled reporters.
