Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will meet with President-elect Donald Trump on Friday at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago mansion in Florida, Canada’s CBC News reported. The meeting came in the wake of President Trump’s threat to impose tariffs on products from Canada.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is scheduled to dine with Trump on Friday night at Mar-a-Largo, according to senior officials who spoke to CBC News on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the trip. According to Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, sources said the talks were facilitated by Canadian officials.
Prime Minister Trudeau’s plane landed at Palm Beach International Airport around 5:30 p.m. local time.
The meeting comes after Prime Minister Trudeau warned earlier Friday that if President Trump sticks to that course. threaten to impose significant tariffs on Canadian productshe will raise prices for Americans and hurt American businesses.
President Trump has threatened to impose tariffs on goods from Canada and Mexico unless the two countries stop the flow of drugs and immigrants across the border. He said he would impose a 25% tax on all products. enter the United States from canada Mexico As one of his first executive orders.
“It’s important to understand that when Donald Trump says something like that, he means to follow through on it,” Trudeau told reporters on Prince Edward Island in Atlantic Canada. There’s no room for that,” he said.
“Our responsibility is that he will not only harm Canadians who are very cooperative with the United States, but he will actually raise prices for the American people and harm American industry and business. “It’s a matter of pointing out that there is a problem,” he added.
Trudeau said Trump was elected because he promised to lower the cost of groceries, but now he’s talking about adding 25 per cent to the price of all kinds of products, including potatoes from Prince Edward Island. said.
These tariffs could essentially destroy the North American trade agreement that Trump’s team negotiated during his first term. Prime Minister Trudeau noted that both countries were able to successfully renegotiate the agreement, calling it a “win-win” for both countries.
“We can work together as we always have,” Trudeau said.
President Trump threatened tariffs on Monday while slamming the influx of illegal immigrants, even though the numbers at the Canadian border pale in comparison to the southern border.
U.S. Border Patrol apprehended 56,530 people at the Mexican border in October alone, and 23,721 at the Canadian border between October 2023 and September 2024.
Trump also railed against fentanyl coming from Mexico and Canada, even though there are fewer seizures at the Canadian border than at the Mexican border. U.S. customs agents seized 43 pounds of fentanyl at the Canadian border last year, compared to 21,100 pounds at the Mexican border.
Canadian officials say it’s unfair to lump Canada in with Mexico, but they’re prepared to make new investments in border security.
“We’re going to work together to address some of the concerns,” Trudeau said. “But ultimately, through the many truly constructive conversations I will have with President Trump, we will continue to move forward on the path that is right for all Canadians.”
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Thursday that she is confident that: Tariff war with the US It will be avoided. President Trump posted on social media that he had spoken with her and agreed to stop unauthorized immigration into the United States.
When President Trump imposed high tariffs during his first term in office, other countries responded with their own retaliatory tariffs. For example, Canada announced in 2018 that it would impose billions of dollars in new tariffs on the United States in retaliation for new taxes on Canadian steel and aluminum.
Canada is the top export destination for 36 US states. Nearly $2.7 billion in goods and services cross our borders every day.
Canada is also the largest foreign supplier of steel, aluminum, and uranium to the United States, and possesses 34 critical minerals and metals that the Department of Defense invests diligently in the interests of national security.
