A journalist asks if Carney requested that Trump stop making remarks about annexing Canada - and making it the 51st US state. "Yes. I asked him today," Carney says, but refuses to share Trump's response. "He's the president, he's his own person," he adds.

Trump continues to push the idea of Canada becoming the 51st state and has hit the country with a 25% tariff on imports.

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump swung between rapturous praise and uncomfortable discussions about whether Canada would ever become the 51st state. But overall,