The prime minister of CanadaJustin Trudeau met yesterday Friday in Florida with the president-elect of the United States, Donald Trump, a few days after the Republican threatened to impose a 25% surcharge on all imported goods on his North American partners.
Although the visit was not on the prime minister’s official agenda nor had the president-elect confirmed the meeting, press reports confirmed Trudeau’s arrival at Palm Beach International Airport (Florida), close to Trump’s residence in Mar-a-Lago.
Trudeau had dinner with Trump at Mar-a-Lago yesterday Friday night. Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc accompanied the prime minister, according to sources cited by the newspaper. New York Times.
The meeting takes place after the president-elect of the United States has put the governments of Mexico and Canada on alert after announcing that he will apply a 25% tariff to all goods imported from those two countries, as well as an additional 10% surcharge on Chinese products, until both – which are their main trading partners – stop the arrival of illegal immigration and drugs.
The visit to Mar-a-Lago on Friday, reported by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), is intended to be a direct effort by Trudeau to show that he has a plan to address Trump’s border concerns and prevent the tariff from being applied.
In the morning, the prime minister told the Canadian press that what he and Trump talked about, he said that “will work together to address some of the concerns” of the Republican and respond to those problems.
The prime minister also warned that what’s really “important to understand” is that when Trump makes statements like that, “he plans to carry them out. There’s no doubt about it.”
Both Trudeau and the President of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaumreacted to the announcement by warning Trump that these tariffs would cause enormous damage to the economy of the entire region.
The Canadian Prime Minister met on Wednesday night with the heads of government of the 11 provinces of that country to outline a common strategy in the face of the threat from the elected US president.
Trudeau stressed in that meeting, that “The number of migrants trying to travel from Canada to the United States is a fraction of those trying to travel from Mexico to the United States”according to his office in a statement.
Canada’s strategy so far is to disassociate as much as possible from Mexico and emphasize that the northern border of the United States is secure to prevent Trump from making good on his threat and imposing tariffs that economists warn will plunge the country into a recession.
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