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Donald Trump raised the matter of making Canada the US's 51st state in a March call with Prime Minister Mark Carney, the Liberal Party leader acknowledged.

The two men spoke on 28 March, the first week of the Canadian election season, but Carney had not previously shared this detail of the call, according to the Globe and Mail.

"The president brings this up all the time. He brought it up yesterday. He brought it up before," Carney said at a Thursday campaign press conference.

"To be clear, as I've said to anyone who's raised this issue in private or in public, including the president, it will never happen," Carney added.

On Wednesday, Trump said he'd spoken to Carney several times.