Minister of Foreign Affairs Mélan Jola ended the G7 meeting in La Malbaie, Que., On Friday, a strict message for the Secretary of State Marco Rubio: Hands from our country.
“I said to the secretary that Canada's sovereignty is not the subject of a debate, the period,” she said at the closing of the press conference of the meeting of foreign ministers G7.
“There is no quarrel, there is no conversation about it, you do not have to talk about it,” she said. “You are here, you respect us, you respect our sovereignty, you are in our country, you respect our people. Period.”
After the summit, Rubio told journalists that the position of US President Donald Trump is that Canada would better join the United States “for economic purposes”.
“There is a misunderstanding between the president's position and the position of the Canadian government,” said Rubio. “I don't think the secret is coming and this was not the subject of the conversation, because this was not the point in this peak.”
Minister of Foreign Affairs Mélan Jola, talking to journalists in Quebec during the last press conference of the meeting of foreign ministers G7, said that she told the secretary of state Marco Rubio to respect Canada and her sovereignty.
“It's crazy, his point is crazy. That's all, “said Prime Minister Mark Carney in his first press conference on Friday, when Rubio was asked about.
“Never – in any way – in any way, shape or form – we will be part of the United States. America is not Canada, “said Carney. “We are very basically a different country.”
Carney said that when he is next week to France and Great Britain to meet the leaders of these countries, he is currently not planning a trip to the United States. But he said he was looking forward to talking to Trump.
Canada's sovereignty “no joke”, says G7
Jola issued her comments a day after Trump repeated the call to Canada to join the United States, saying that his country does not need anything that Canada must sell.
“Canada only acts as a state,” said Trump in the White House on Thursday. “We don't need anything they have. As a state, it would be one of the great states. … If you look at the map, they violated the artificial line between Canada and the USA, simply a simple artificial line. … it makes no sense. “
Despite the conflict between these two countries regarding sovereignty, Jola said that the G7 ministers decided at the beginning of the summit, that they would not let the issues they did not agree to prevent their cooperation in the areas in which they do.
Rubio agreed with this sentiment at his press conference, saying that often in foreign policy: “you have disputes with the people you like,” or “dissatisfied with the nation with which you work very strictly with many other things.”
At the meeting of foreign ministers G7 in La Malbaie, Que. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told journalists that Donald Trump's position is that it is better to join Canada to the United States. “There is a misunderstanding between the president's position and the position of the Canadian government,” said Rubio.
Jola said that her G7 counterparts came to Canada to the top with the impression that Trump about the fact that Canada became 51. It was something that could be “taken in a humorous way”, but quickly straightened them.
“I told them,” This is not a joke. ” Canadians are restless.
Jola said that Canada was created “because we didn't want to be part of the United States”, but also because we wanted to be closer to ourselves than we Americans.
The future of Canadian trade
Looking to the future, Joly said that in order to alleviate the blow of the tariffs applied to Canada, the provinces must “get rid of internal commercial barriers” to increase the flow of inter -pine trade.
“There are many opportunities in Canada to be able to work with each other, be able to be closer to one province to another,” she said.
Joly also said that Canada would try to build stronger trade relations with countries other than the USA
“Canada wants to support new partnerships in the world, we want to be closer to Europe, we want to be closer to Great Britain,” she said. “We need to diversify our economy.”
In terms of Ukraine, Jola said that the G7 is united in supporting the suspension proposal in the USA for a country that was approved by Kiiva and is now awaiting Russia's response.
In the comments on Friday morning Jola said that the international community carefully observes Moscow's reaction.
“Ultimately, the ball is now in Russia when it comes to Ukraine,” she said.
Later on Friday, Trump said that there is a “very good chance”, that the war between Russia and Ukraine may end after productive discussions with President Vladimir Putin from Russia on Thursday.
“Yesterday we conducted very good and productive conversations with President Vladimir Russia from Russia and there is a very good chance that this terrible, bloody war may finally end,” said Trump in social truth.
Trump said that he asked Putin to save the life of the “completely surrounded” Ukrainian troops in Kursk in Russia.