Will Trump and Prime Minister Mark Carney meet in person before the Aug 19 tariff deadline?
100% of users predicted YES — the community missed this one. 1 predictions cast.
Prime Minister Mark Carney and President Donald Trump did not meet in person before Trump's Aug. 19, 2026 tariff deadline; instead the two leaders spoke twice by phone that week as Canada sought to avert new 50% tariffs on roughly $20 billion of Canadian goods, according to BNN Bloomberg. Carney and Trump held calls on successive days, described by Carney's office as centered on ongoing trade negotiations, while Canadian trade minister Dominic LeBlanc and chief negotiator Janice Charette met separately in Washington with U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, according to CP24. The 50% tariffs, covering products including cement and hockey sticks, had been set to take effect just after midnight on Aug. 19 under an earlier Trump executive order. Negotiations proceeded entirely through phone calls and staff-level meetings rather than a face-to-face summit between the two leaders in the run-up to the deadline. The lone community forecaster predicted an in-person meeting would occur, which did not match the actual outcome of remote, phone-based negotiations.