OTTAWA: US President-elect Donald Trump stated on Saturday (Nov 30) that he had a “very productive” assembly with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wherein they mentioned border points and different matters together with commerce , power and the Arctic.
Trudeau flew to Florida on Friday night and had dinner with Trump at his Mar-a-Lago residence, days after Republican Trump pledged to impose tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports after being sworn in as president in January.
That dedication has raised fears of a commerce warfare between the United States and two of its largest buying and selling companions.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum warned this week that Trump’s tariff plan would have disastrous penalties for each nations and steered doable retaliation following his menace of blanket tariffs of 25% on Mexican and Canadian imports.
Trump desires to make use of the tariffs as a device to get Mexico and Canada to stem the move of unlawful medicine into the United States, significantly the lethal opioid fentanyl, in addition to migrants crossing into the United States illegally.
“We mentioned many vital points that can require each nations to work collectively to handle, such because the fentanyl and drug disaster that has decimated so many lives attributable to unlawful immigration, honest commerce offers that don’t jeopardize employees Americans, and the huge commerce deficit the United States has with Canada,” Trump stated in a submit on Truth Social.
“Trudeau is dedicated to working with us to finish this horrible devastation of American households,” he added.
Trudeau’s workplace didn’t instantly reply to a request for touch upon his assembly with Trump.
