India, March 13 -- Canadian prime minister-elect Mark Carney on Wednesday expressed readiness to meet with US president Donald Trump if the latter respects Canadian sovereignty.

The US and Canada have been engaged in what is seen as a rising tariff war, with Trump repeatedly continuing to calling for Ottawa to be come the 51st American state.

Not just this, the US president has also threatened economic damage in his tariff threats, suggesting that the border is just a fictional line between Washington and Ottawa.

Carney has meanwhile said that he is "ready to sit down with president Trump" at the right time under a situation where there is respect for the Canadian sovereignty, adding that they are working for a common approach, "a much...