WASHINGTON - Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio hasn’t repeated President Donald Trump’s musings about making Canada the 51st state during their conversations.

Anand said Monday that Rubio “has not raised this with me verbatim or even insinuated it.”

She will welcome Rubio and other foreign ministers from Group of Seven countries to Ontario’s Niagara region Tuesday and Wednesday to discuss shared economic and security challenges amid global uncertainty.

“We are on a playing field where we want to engage on the crucial issues confronting our countries and the world at large,” Anand said in an interview. “And we are all, as G7 partners, coming to the table in good faith to push these crucial issues at a very volatile moment geopolitically.”

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