Prime Minister Mark Carney and Ontario Premier Doug Ford put the focus on making Canada globally competitive rather than securing a trade deal with the United States as they met in Ottawa on Monday.

Carney and Ford were meeting on Parliament Hill as trade talks with the United States show little signs of progressing.

Ford was asked by reporters after the meeting Monday what he felt the chances were for a tariff-free deal with the United States, but he said U.S. President Donald Trump’s behaviour was “unpredictable.”

“He’ll come out with some cockamamie thing tomorrow that we don’t even know about, right?,” Ford said in response.

“I’ve always said that we can never predict what Donald Trump is going to do, but … we can create the environment and the conditions for companies to come here

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