Dominic LeBlanc says he expects Prime Minister Mark Carney and U.S. President Donald Trump will have a conversation with each other "over the next couple of days" as Canada tries to find a way out of a 35 per cent blanket tariff on exports to the U.S.

"We believe there's a great deal of common ground between the United States and Canada in terms of building two strong economies that work well together," said LeBlanc, the minister responsible for Canada-U.S. trade, on CBS's .

LeBlanc left Washington earlier this week without a deal, but he told host Margaret Brennan he came out of discussions "with a better understanding of the American concerns in the trading relationship…. So we're prepared to stick around and do the work needed."

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