Two prime Canadian ministers headed to President-elect Trump’s residence in Florida on Thursday to speak about border safety and commerce because the incoming president’s inauguration day nears.
New Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc and Overseas Minister Mélanie Joly shall be in Palm Seaside, Florida on Thursday for the talks this week, Jean-Sébastien Comeau, a spokesperson for LeBlanc, instructed the Related Press.
Comeau mentioned that LeBlanc alongside Joly will meet with Tom Homan, Trump’s incoming “border czar,” after Christmas to debate Canada’s plan to safe the border as a part of a bid to keep away from sweeping tariffs.
The spokesperson mentioned LeBlanc and Joly “look forward to building on the discussions that took place when the Prime Minister met with President Trump at Mar-a-Lago last month, as well as the positive call the Ministers held with Mr. Tom Homan earlier this month.”
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US President Donald Trump (L) talks with Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the course of the plenary session of the NATO summit on the Grove Resort in Watford, northeast of London. (NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP by way of Getty Photographs)
Together with discussing border safety, the Canadian leaders hope to middle talks on fentanyl trafficking and “negative impacts” of Trump’s tariffs on items.
“The Ministers intend to focus on Canada’s efforts to combat fentanyl trafficking and illegal migration and the measures outlined in Canada’s Border Plan, as well as the negative impacts that the imposition of 25% tariffs on Canadian goods would have on both Canada and the United States,” Comeau added in a press release.
Trump has threatened to impose tariffs on imports from Canada when he takes workplace in January until the nation reduces the move of migrants and fentanyl into the U.S.
US President Donald Trump (R) shakes arms with Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau throughout a gathering at Winfield Home, London on Dec. 3, 2019. (Getty Photographs)
Trump has made snide remarks about Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on social media, referring to the ally as “Governor Justin Trudeau of Canada.”
The assertion on Christmas Day got here after Trump advised to Trudeau that if tariffs on Canada would kill its economic system, then maybe Canada ought to turn out to be the 51st U.S. state.
Canadian flag. ( Vaughn Ridley/Getty Photographs)
Trump’s threats to impose tariffs on Canadian imports, in the meantime, have unnerved Canada, which is extremely built-in with the U.S. economic system.
About 60% of U.S. crude oil imports are from Canada, and 85% of U.S. electrical energy imports as nicely.
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Almost $3.6 billion Canadian – or $2.7 billion U.S. – price of products and companies cross the border every day. Canada is the highest export vacation spot for 36 U.S. states.
Fox Information Digital has reached out to the Trump staff for remark.
Fox Information Digital’s Bradford Betz and the Related Press contributed to this report.
