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Leyland Cecco in Toronto

Trump fixates on US-Canada border – does he actually want to tear it up?

American and Canadian flags fly over bridge
The Ambassador Bridge in Windsor, Ontario, which connects the US and Canada. Photograph: Geoff Robins/AFP/Getty Images

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.

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