WASHINGTON — Prime Minister Mark Carney departed Washington Wednesday morning with no deal in hand to lift U.S. tariffs on Canadian goods — but he left his key minister on the trade file behind to keep pressing the Canadian case.

U.S. President Donald Trump lavished praise on Carney during a meeting in the Oval Office on Tuesday and said the prime minister would walk away “very happy.”

The president showed no signs of relenting on tariffs, however, and no deal was announced.

Christopher Sands, director of Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Canadian Studies, said he was hoping the Trump administration would offer a clear signal that it was taking Ottawa’s efforts seriously.

To appease the American president, Carney has dropped many of Ottawa’s retaliatory tariffs, paused Canada’s dig

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