CAPTION: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with Donald Trump on Friday at the G7 summit in La Malbaie, Quebec, where the American president said the pair has made “a lot of progress” on cutting tariffs between Canada and the U.S. (June 8, 2018) 1.

SOUNDBITE: Donald Trump, U.S.

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SOUNDBITE: Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister PLACELINE: La Malbaie, Quebec CREDIT: The Canadian Press STORYLINE: Donald Trump used his first public remarks on Canadian soil as president to reassert his desire to strike a bilateral trade deal with Canada, rather than a renegotiate a trilateral NAFTA.

The U.S. president made the comment as he sat down for a one-on-one meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Quebec's Charlevoix region.

Speaking briefly to reporters, Trump says reaching a new trade agreement could be much easier if the trilateral NAFTA were in a different form, perhaps as one-on-one deals with Canada and Mexico — and he thinks it would be better for both countries.