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“Canada is implementing our $1.3 billion border plan — reinforcing the border with new choppers, technology and personnel, enhanced coordination with our American partners, and increased resources to stop the flow of fentanyl,” Trudeau wrote on social media Monday.
“Nearly 10,000 frontline personnel are and will be working on protecting the border.” I just had a good call with President Trump. Canada is implementing our $1.3 billion border plan — reinforcing the border with new choppers, technology and personnel, enhanced coordination with our American partners, and increased resources to stop the flow of fentanyl. Nearly…“In addition, Canada is making new commitments to appoint a Fentanyl Czar, we will list cartels as terrorists, ensure 24/7 eyes on the border, launch a Canada-U.S. Joint Strike Force to combat organized crime, fentanyl and money laundering,” Trudeau added. “I have also signed a new intelligence directive on organized crime and fentanyl and we will be backing it with $200 million.” Trump’s 25% tariffs against Canada and Mexico were set to be imposed early Tuesday morning after he signed three executive orders last weekend, though Canadian energy would have been levied at a lower rate of 10%. Trudeau told reporters last weekend that if Trump’s tariffs on Canada go into effect, his country would respond in kind with its own 25% duties on $155 billion worth of imported U.S. products.“We’ll have some good meetings with China,” Trump told reporters on Monday in the Oval Office. “We have meetings planned, and, we’ll see what happens. But that was just an opening salvo. If we can’t make a deal with China, then the tariffs will be very, very substantial.”
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