Canada’s new prime minister, Mark Carney, is making what everyone is calling a “high stakes” visit to the White House today to meet with Donald Trump, who may or may not make his pitch for Canada to become America’s 51st state in person.

Just days after winning a stunning election on an anti-Trump platform, Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada on Tuesday will meet with President Trump, who has imposed tariffs on Canada, America’s closest ally, next-door neighbor and top trading partner, and repeatedly threatened its sovereignty.

When President Donald Trump welcomes his new Canadian counterpart to the White House on Tuesday, among the questions looming over their Oval Office encounter will be whether Trump will agree to attend a major summit Prime Minister Mark Carney is hosting next month in Alberta.

Stephen Miller, Trump’s deputy chief of staff for policy, made another version of the argument at the White House last week, positing that dolls from China might have lead paint while dolls made in the U.S. would have higher environmental and regulatory standards. He predicted that most consumers would agree.

But Trump’s tone, and that of his aides, has shifted notably in recent weeks, as they warn of sacrifice and “transition” until, by their telling, his heavy tariffs pave the

President Donald Trump said he is willing to lower tariffs on China at some point because the levies now are so high that the world’s two largest economies have essentially stopped doing business with each other.