LA MALBAIE, Canada (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio may be walking into unusually unfriendly territory this week when he meets his counterparts from the Group of 7 industrialized democracies — strong American allies stunned by President Donald Trump’s actions against them.

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The U.S. president has arguably been most antagonistic against Canada, the host of the meeting, with persistent talk of it becoming the 51st U.S. state.

Rubio told reporters Wednesday that he does not plan to discuss Trump's plan to "take over Canada" and that they "have a lot of other things we work on together." "We defend North America through NORAD and the airspace of our continent together,