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Canada’s new prime minister, Mark Carney, is making what everyone is calling a “high stakes” visit to the White House today to meet with Donald Trump, who may or may not make his pitch for Canada to become America’s 51st state in person. And Carney could conceivably thank the trade-warring Trump for making himself such a public enemy in Canada that the PM’s Liberal Party was able to come from behind to win the country’s recent national elections. Below are live updates on what might be a particularly contentious White House confab.